What a whirlwind of a week ☺️ We don’t know where the time is going! We have had a fantastic week exploring infinity and beyond! We would also like to welcome our new crew members into Crew Nicholson, they have all settled so well and we are very proud of them ❤️

Terrific Tuesday!

Highlight of our day today was our ‘space mile’. We have decided in order to help the alien return to his home planet, the moon, we’d like to walk there after the success of walking to the North Pole. So we have set ourselves a space adventure! Walking like aliens we completed 40 miles today – 20 children, 2 miles each 😊 Our little legs were worn out. This lead into an exploration of how many miles we would need to walk to reach the moon. We used the internet to research and find the answer. A staggering 238,855 miles!!!!! We’ll wear our moon boots out!

Today’s HoWL heroes

Working Hard – Taylor. Taylor used his phonic skills today to write captions for his drawings.

Working Hard – Ates. Ates worked hard today in reading and read some very tricky words! Well done Ates!

Monday ✔

The children were very excited to be back in school today with lots of stories to share about their wonderful time in the snow 🌨⛄️❄️

We have worked hard today to apply our phonics skills in our writing. I was super impressed to see so many children working hard to recall sounds and write them independently.

Todays HoWL heroes were:

Working Hard – Teddy, Noah and Evelynn. I am so proud of how you all, always set a fantastic example to your peers. You always show ‘green standard’ when working on the carpet and demonstrate this effectively in crew.

Getting Smart – SJ. SJ absolutely blew my socks off today whilst writing. He independently wrote three sentences, including finger spaces and beautiful handwriting. He also re-read his work to make sure it made sense and he’d included all the sounds he could hear. Amazing work!

Being Kind – Skyla. Skyla is always so kind to her crew and is always looking to lend a helping hand. She is such a thoughtful and caring little girl.

Being Kind – Grace. Grace was so kind to her crew yesterday. When children were feeling a little upset, Grace was the first one there! She is so kind and considerate, such a credit to our crew.

This week has been ‘snow’ much fun! ❄️⛄️

Another strange week at school! We think the alien 👽  brought the snow ❄️ just to confuse us! We have had so much fun and worked hard to achieve our goals ⭐️ 😊

Wednesday ✅

Today I have been blown away by the children’s independence and resilience. In maths we’ve been developing our number skills, looking at one more and one less. We explored this before Christmas and we’ve revisited this today with great success. The children completed their diagnostic three without any support from me 🙌🏼 I’m so proud of how well our FS children are going.

Todays HoWL heroes were:

Getting Smart – Teddy, Noah and Shelby for their excellent work in maths today. The children preserved even when it became a little tricky!

The alien invasion seems to have ceased and we have a tricky problem on our hands! The alien 👽 was scared by all the excitement last week and would like to return home, however his spaceship is beyond repair 😔 So he needs our crew to help! Today we brainstormed what we could do to help and how the alien may be feeling. We had a great discussion around feelings and how we can support the alien to make him feel safe in school 👽

The children then had a challenge, we needed to explain what the alien looked like and what had happened so that visitors to school knew who they were keeping an eye out for. The children used their phonic skills to write captions and short sentences independently. I was so proud ☺️

Todays HoWL heroes were:

Getting Smart – Summer used what she knew about ‘special friends’ to write some tricky words!

Working Hard – Zach wrote a fantastic caption ‘Orange alien’ today, independently, writing all the sounds he could hear.

Being Kind -Grace was ever so kind outside today and shared the wheeler toys perfectly ☺️

TWITP has been an epic space adventure!

Happy New Year to all of our families, I am completely overwhelmed today with how the children have settled into our ‘new normal’ again. Crew Godley have been amazing ☺️

Thank you to all our parents for supporting to ensure children were prepared for school and those parents at home for their patience. We are missing the home learners being in school and are counting down the days till everyone is back ❤️

The children were so excited this morning when they entered the classroom into our ‘space’ themed learning environment 🌙 🌝 🌏 🌟 💫  The children certainly worked hard to get smart and I would like to praise Summer for her extensive knowledge of the Solar System, I was blown away by her knowledge of the planets!

Stay safe everyone and again, thank you for a great first day ☺️

What a magical day we’ve had ⭐️ 🎄 🎅🏼

We began by completing some festive art work which SJ and Roseanne won a little prize for their fantastic shading skills. We continued the day by performing our expedition piece which we can’t wait to shares out you all 🌲 we have some very talented little people ⭐️

This evening we held our Christmas Story night. We watched the Snowman whilst eating lovely hot dogs and drinking yummy hot chocolate ☺️ The children were all snug on their pillows and blankets. It was a pleasure to spend the evening with them ⭐️