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The children have had a fantastic first week back in school. We have been working with the children to establish the school routines again this week, and using all forms of communication.

This week for literacy we have started our new book The snail and the whale. We have enjoyed the sensory story, we have been mark making by creating our own snail trail messages. We have also started making some junk modelling and painted some paper cups to turn into whales.

Maths this week we have been looking at number recognition and object one to one correspondence. Using a dice and then finding the correct number and counting out the correct number of objects.

We have been doing lots of outdoor learning this week as we had forest school and we played some maths parachutes games in our outdoor space.

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This week was life skills week so we have been enjoying lots of life skills.

For outdoor learning we used this time to look at different types of jobs we can do, the children tried out being window cleaners, builders, mechanic's, in class we were cleaners, teachers and bakers.

We have also looked at life skills that can help us now like hand washing and teeth brushing.

Literacy this week we continued with our story the snail and the whale. We made some junk model whales using cous and paper plates. The children also explored some frozen ice and had to dig out the animals and use the spray bottles and melt the ice with warm water.

Maths this week we looked at 2D and 3D shapes, listening to number songs to identify our shapes. We looked at different objects in the classroom that were circles and triangles sorting them into the correct section.

This week the children enjoyed music and explored the boom whackers and the bells. The children used the boom whackers and played them on different surfaces to see if they made a different sound. With the bells the children matched the bells to the colour notes to make a tune.