Spring is in the air...

This week we have been thinking about the changes we have noticed as the seasons are changing.

Although Jack Frost doesn't want to say goodbye just yet, we are noticing that the birds are singing, there are plenty of daffodils waving in the breeze and the blossom is appearing in the trees.


We went on a Spring treasure hunt, looking for signs of spring and found lots of things to tick off our picture lists. Perhaps you can have a look for signs of spring when you are out and about too. 

 

 

 

 

We have made observational drawings of the daffodils

We have matched baby animals to their  mothers and thinking about the things that grow in Spring time.

We have used the role play farm animals to think about baby and mummy animals

We have been singing Five Little Ducks and counting numbered ducks in the water tray.

We are learning to blend letters s, a, t, p, i, n to make words like pin, pan, pit and sip.

Next week, we will be thinking about Easter traditions and continuing to think about new life.

I'll huff and I''ll puff...

3 Little Pigs

This week we are using the book The Three Little Pigs as our main text and our learning has included thinking about the properties of materials, characters in the text, position and how to build a steady construction.

Using the props to retell the story, recalling repeated refrains and thinking about what each character would say.

Building towers with different kinds of block - how steady can you make it? How many blocks did you use? Can you make it taller than you?

 

 

We enjoyed playing a counting and number recognition number game with the blocks. First we rolled a number dice and took the matching number of blocks. Then we built our towers. Once our towers were quite tall, we threw a bean bag at our towers and counted how many bricks we could knock over.

 

We have been writing and reading about the characters in the story, learning that print goes from left to right and how to point at each word as we read.

In our phonics session, we worked in colour teams to see which team could add the most 'i's' to the large sheet of paper.

 

 

 We have been looking at different materials and thinking about if they would be good for making a house. What do you think about these materials?

Which one would you choose for your house? Why?

 Practising our cutting skills and learning how to hold the scissors.

 

 

Over the next two weeks we will be learning about the changes we can see in Spring and also about Easter.

 

 

Book Week & The Gingerbread Man

World Book Day

Last week was World Book Day and as a school, we used this as our theme all week long.

All areas of our class were book themed...

In our play dough area we used toy hammers, nails, screwdrivers and wrenches while reading fact books about tools.

On our maths table we matched and ordered numbered ducks while reading 5 Little Ducks book.

In our small world tray, we played with the story props from Dear Zoo to help us retell the story.

In the investigation tray we explored mini beasts while reading books about insects.

In our sand tray we measured and counted dinosaurs while reading Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs.

On our writing table we made our own books.

We invited the year 3 children in to share books with us.

 

 We dressed up as our favourite book characters...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following on from Book Week, we have been reading the traditional tale of The Gingerbread Man.

 

 We retold the story wearing character hats.

We made Gingerbread Men puppets and used them to help us retell the story.

 We designed our own Ginger Bread men on paper and used our plan to recreate our design in our biscuit.

 

 

 

In our busy fingers we really enjoyed making cheerio lace necklaces. It is very fiddly so good practice to strengthen tiny fingers. We practiced our maths by counting how may we had put on our lace. A really good and fun activity to try at home!