Chestnut children had a great week working hard to complete their stories based on Boa's Bad Birthday. We saw some great stories with innovative ideas and excellent technical detail. I was very proud of how hard the children worked on this.
In Maths we are looking at place value to 50 - consolidating counting backwards and forwards to 50 as well as thinking about what each number means in terms of place value.
In our wider curriculum we have been working on our skills in computing. The children have explored a variety of 'Paint' programs learning how to use various tools to create and save their own pictures.  They have also used this to add text to their portrait.  
I was pleased to hear about all the Chestnut's achievement's in our Show 'n' Tell class assembly on Friday and those in the CWV class performed their own dance routine to 'Fight Song'.

Chestnut class has been working hard this week on our Literacy learning to write the beginning and end of stories.  Next week will complete this work with a Big Write, writing our own story in the style of 'Boa's Bad Birthday'. 
We continue to work on our maths, developing our addition and subtraction within 20. We have also been working on counting in 10's through song and games.
In the wider curriculum we have focused on Art and Design and developing seascapes through line, texture and collage as well as developing our knowledge of colour mixing with paints.
As ever we enjoyed our PE session with the Saints which saw the children developing their core strength and ball skills.
Children have also responded marvellously to the Science challenge I set earlier in the week by both designing and building their own floating pirate ships out of recycled material.