We’ve moved on to a poetry unit and are now beginning Ellsworth’s Extraordinary Electric Ears by Valorie Fisher, which is allowing us to explore some really challenging vocabulary and how to use dictionaries. Lilly really enjoyed going on an alphabet hunt to start the unit and said, “You must know alphabetical order, or you might say w, y, x, s, a!”

In maths, our new unit is Money. Any and all exposure to seeing different notes and coins and discussing their value will really help the class.

In PSHE, we discussed why washing, such as having a bath, is important for our hygiene. We had great fun role-playing the fun that can be had at bath time! Please see the picture above. Fenn giggled, “We know bath time is fun, and I was a rubber duck!”

Our new Learning Means The World topic, ‘The Dancing Spy’, looks at the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker. She had a difficult childhood, influenced by poverty and racial segregation in the United States near the start of the twentieth century. The class gave really mature and considered responses as they explored what life may have been like for her as a child who had to start working at the age of eight to support her family. Elsie thought the way she was treated was ‘unfair and mean’.