We are so excited to start our school journey and get to know the children! 

To do this, we are starting the year with our "Marvellous Me" topic. 
 

Our first text is "The colour Monster Goes to School" and we have been really engaged with the story, matching it to our feelings and emotions around starting school. 
 

We then looked at 'The Day the Crayons Quit, continuing to think about our emotions, as well as our community! 
Each day we received letters from different coloured crayons, and we loved trying to work out which crayon might write to us next and why! We talked through how each crayon felt and tried to understand why they felt that way, by seeing how much effort it took to do the things they told us! We also painted some black things to make black feel better as well as coloured some pink dinosaurs for pink! 
We had lots of really great ideas how to settle the argument between orange and yellow, and discussed how to be a good friend. 
We took this into exploring time and saw some fabulous friends and teamwork being made! 

We then continued thinking about school and those in it, but started reflecting more inwardly, thinking about ourselves and our families! 

To do this we have read 'Who's in My Family' by Robie Harris. We have shared our family pictures with each other, talking about the similarities and differences between our families, compared different types of houses, and also if we had pets and what they were! 

Within this we have talked lots about people who are special to us and why, including what the word special means. 

After looking at farmers and Harvest in our Explorer week (see explorer week pages) we thought a little bit more about people who help us. This then fed into our first Drawing Club week, and we looked at the text "Superworm". 

Our wow words for the week are: 

Courageous, zooming, calamity, wriggling, transform, superhuman, heroic and indestructible!

All children have really felt the joy of drawing club and mark making this week, and we are already starting to put our new phonic knowledge into practice whilst showing our fabulous imaginations!