This week Year 1/2 Heron class @FP started our myHappymind learning by talking about the brain! We learned about the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the perfrontal cortex, and what they all do. We then gott our myHappymind journals and started filling them in. Finally, we sang a song about having a happy mind – what an amazing introduction to our new learning! Please join us and follow along with the learning by downloading the app. 

We also had gymnastics with our wonderful coaches. They started our new term by doing fun warm-up games and body-control activities. Then we started working in the four stations, rotating around to each one so we could have a go at them all. What fun! 

In Dove class @FP this week, the children have been so excited! Telling each other about their holiday news and what they got up to which was really lovely to see.

In maths the children have been learning all about numbers to 20, what we know about the number 20 and any fact families that we can remember.

The children also worked together to make the longest line of multilink cubes I think I have ever seen! We were estimating how long we thought it might be and how many children long the line is.

As well as all of this maths, our new topic for this half term is “Toys”. We will be looking at old toys and new, comparing and discussing what we know about them. So please feel free to research and talk about the different toys you had when you were growing up as well as asking any other relatives.

Just a reminder that as of next week Dove class will be having PE on Wednesdays so please bring your PE kits back and also, please bring in book bags on and Monday and Tuesday so we can change books.

In Parakeet class @FP, we have been learning about information texts and have begun to plan our own information writing. We talked about what we were ‘experts’ at and began to plan our writing around our topics. We have some experts in Chelsea FC, gymnastics, singing and flags to name just a few. We enjoy writing about topics that are interesting to us and have completed some great writing. A great start to the new year for our writers!

Our class book for our reading lessons is an information text called ‘100 things to know about the Human Body’. We have learnt lots of interesting and unbelievable facts this week! Did you know in a lifetime your nails will grow 2.5m in length? We grow 2metres of hair will grow from our noses!! Ask us some facts we will be able to surprise you!

This week we have begun a new initiative which the children loved. We are learning all about our minds. How to keep our brain and minds healthy and how we can help our brains to grow! We have cool new journals to record our learning and thoughts. We have learnt all about how our brain works. We learnt some new vocabulary. Ask us what our hippocampus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex does. We can teach you!