Class 1

This week we have been busy preparing for our Mothers’ Day service. I have been really impressed with how well the children have sat in the hall and joined in so enthusiastically with the singing.

In English we read about ‘Tad’ and how he grew into a frog. He made a giant leap of faith to…

It’s all been about worms this week!

The children have planted sunflower seeds and we are hoping they have started growing so that we can measure them and find out later in the year which group have the tallest sunflower!

We have found out about why worms are so important. We have read…

This week we have read The Hungry Caterpillar.

We have enjoyed making caterpillars using our fine motor skills and they are now crawling all over the classroom!!!

We have done some fantastic writing about the life cycle of a butterfly and have also focused on rhyming words.

In number we…

What a fun packed week! Great pancake flipping!
We have enjoyed sharing the Wolf’s Pancakes and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops. 

In math we have studied numbers 8, 9 and 10. We discovered that 8 is quite tricky and we might need to practise this at home and think about a…

The Boy Who Cried Wolf has been our theme for the week! 
The children also listened to ‘Whopper’ and ‘Stop Telling Fibs!’ We hope the children have learnt the importance of telling the truth!
We are really proud of the sentence work the children have been doing. 
In math, the children have…

This week we have tried NOT to be a Scallywag like the wolves in David Melling's story! We have spoken about good hygiene and how having great manners is respectful.

The children have written sentences about good manners. We really enjoyed the story.

In maths we have looked at ways of making…

This week has been about how Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year!

We have a had a fantastic time making lanterns and dragons.

We talked about tigers and then the children had a go at colouring pictures of tigers, trying hard to keep within the lines and colouring neatly.

In math,…

This week we have read 'Little Red Riding Hood'. The nursery children prepared Little Red Riding Hood's basket, developing their descriptive language by describing the contents. Reception re-told the main events and made a story map.

On Tuesday we had a fantastic math day, focusing on the…

Wow what a busy week!

In English we have listened to the story 'Lost & Found'

We have written simple sentences about Antarctica animals and have enjoyed drawing them.

We have focused specifically on Penguins and have made models of them for our Antarctic display.

The children used the…

This week our focus was on woodland animals and where they make their homes  in the woods. We talked about hibernating animals too.

Our main text was 'The Gruffalo' and the children enjoyed making some accompanying sounds with musical instruments for the description of the Gruffalo.

In…

What a lovely time I have had teaching nursery and reception this week!

We have started our new topic 'Into the woods' and 'winter time' and have been talked about winter weather and how to keep ourselves safe during winter time. We have started looking at what creatures live in the woods and…

This we have had a festive filled week celebrating all things Christmas! We read the classic Christmas story of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ and discussed the true meaning of Christmas. We have also watched a pantomime, made decorations for our class Christmas party, had the party and had a…