Willow class have been super this week, enjoying all the experiences that are on offer.

We have been practising our Nativity songs (which you might have heard at home!) ready for our performance in a couple of weeks. The children have really been trying hard to learn all the actions to the songs and we are beginning to practise the acting too.

This week our understanding the world story is called "Lucy in the city". Using the book as a prompt, we have been learning about positional language such as over, under, behind, next to. We played a game in the hutch using clues and positional language to find pictures. We also used the beebots, which are programmable toys, to input instructions to make it move in a particular direction. They used the town map to programme the beebots to travel to a certain place. We also have been thinking about our journey to school. We discussed landmarks that we go past and the directions that we take. The children had a go at drawing a map of their journey adding in things that they see on the way. They have really enjoyed looking at the different types of maps.

In RE this week we have looked at Advent; what it is and why it is important. We made our own Advent promises and changed our cloth on our RE focus table to purple- the colour of Advent.