Newsletter Spring Term 2024

Newsletter Spring Term 2024 - Week 9

Dear Parents,

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This week’s topic was “animals’’..

We talked about animals, we watched a funny video on Panda and played what’s in the bag. Children drawn a giraffe and made a mask with Shabina. Semhar organised some painting with their hands. Part of our Montessori activities this week was pouring water from the jug to the cups.

At group time we continue to learn colour, adding white.

On Monday for Italian lesson we learned the Ciao Ciao song.⭐️

On Tuesday at cooking we prepared Italian bacio made with biscuits and chocolate.

On Wednesday for Forest school the children planted some bulbs in our garden.

On Thursday for computer science we started to use the mouse.

On Friday for Drama we acted a Donkey story with puppets.

For Music we worked on rhymes 🦋

Thank you for your cooperation we’re looking forward to a great start to the school year!

Best regards,

Linda

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