LAST WEEK TO BOOK IN A KIDS UP FRONT FOR NEXT TERM

Happy Holi to those who will be celebrating this weekend.

Enjoy the family fun fair ! G1 are singing at 11ish and Kaito and Sean are performing in a Taiko drum group just after 1pm. Good luck everyone !

Our Sharing Shelf is looking very sad. Children can add to this shelf We often see medals and trophies, arts and crafts from home, curiosities such as an odd shaped stone, postcards from around the world or photos. Please remind your child to add to this shelf on Mondays when they share exploits from the past week.

Shhh...Paparazzi ! Service at home - Please snap your child doing anything SERVICE related at home and email it to me for our "Caught doing a Service" photo display. Don't let on you've done this!

Poetry weekend - the children are exciting to recording themselves reading a poem this week, for their ongoing eBook. Please take a look inside your child's weekend poetry folder for more details, they are all eager to prepare in advance. (This should not take any longer than the usual poetry reading you are expected to do each weekend)

Augmented reality - 1MLn asked me to remind you of the apps. Might be a great holiday project ! Free and great for creativity. 

• http://quivervision.com/
  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/string-augmented-reality-showcase/id417606536?mt=8

We have enough adults for Happy lodge next week. Thanks.

Yash taught us a lot about Holi. Thank you Yash. Ask your child if they can recall the story of Holi. Ask your child how people celebrate Holi. 

  

Thanks to Catherine Gordon the whole class had a chance to make cupcakes ! What a smell !

Ask your child the steps to making these delicious treats. 

Thanks again Adam and Catherine for arranging this as part of our Non Fiction reading unit.

I'm so glad that so many children dressed up for 'Careers day' . We have a creative bunch ! Take a look at this photo and see if you can figure out what 1MLn would like to do when they are older.

The Power of Listening. Ask your child how a good listener sits. Ask your child how it feels when someone listens attentively. Ask your child how it felt when their buddy was told not to listen properly in our role play.

Ask your child how the listening conversations helped them at Happy Lodge. 

Ask your child what is happening in these photos ! Can you spot the people who are pretending not to listen well?

Happy Lodge Memory books. Ask your child what they are doing at Happy Lodge at the moment ?  Ask your child how they felt when they were listening to Happy Lodge residents share their stories of the past.

Non fiction reading and writing: Ask your child what their goals are for their Expert Book. Ask your child what variety of non fiction writing they plan to put in their Expert book. (eg maps, instructions, captions) Ask your child what they are proud of so far.

Maths : This week : Repeating patterns. Next week growing patterns. eg  (AB AABB AAABBB)Ask your child what the letters are on these posters. Ask your child what patterns they found in the playground.

Can you find any repeating patterns at home?