Chicks!

We have had an exciting week this week as we had some eggs arrive at school in an incubator and we have watched them hatch. We now have 5 fluffy chicks. We have all done some fantastic writing about the lifecycle of a hen and some of the children have also written their own books about hens and chicks. Some children have also made lifecycle hats.
We now also have some tadpoles in the classroom and we will be able to watch them slowly change into frogs over the next few weeks. Next week we will be going down to forest schools and we will be doing some pond dipping. I wonder what we will find?
We have been learning about subtraction this week. The children explored number rhymes at home and we have been singing them in the classroom. We have practiced working out subtraction problems using a variety of manipulatives.
This weekend our home learning is to draw a picture for the Redbourn In Bloom poster competition. We hope to see some great entries. Have a lovely long weekend!

Welcome Back!

We have all come back excited to share our news of the things we did in the holidays. Lucy, William and Ava borrowed our holiday bears and took them away on holiday. Ava took her bear to Mexico 'I did the bungee jump on my own...he watched it out on the balcony'. Lucy took her bear to 'my Granddad's. I went to the beach as well.' William took his bear to Tenerife. 'I swam in the swimming pool and went to the beach.' We all painted some lovely pictures of the things that we did and we have all done some fantastic writing!
We have been dancing to practise for our May Day celebrations. We all have a partner to do the dance with. We have chosen Isabella and Sam to be our May King and Queen.
Our Home Learning this week to sing songs and rhymes to practice our subtraction. We look forward to singing these next week.

End of term!

We have had a shorter week this week as we all enjoyed a long Easter weekend. The children were keen to talk about what they had done over the weekend and we have had an enjoyable week leading up to the end of term.
In maths we have been learning about capacity. We used language such as full, empty, half full, overflowing, more and less to describe what we could see. The children were also encouraged to compare containers and to estimate quantities. We looked at the measures on the side of measuring containers and talked about that too. Some of the children recalled using measures when cooking so this would be a useful maths activity to do in the holidays. Bath times also lend themselves to exploring capacity.
On Thursday we had an RE day where we compared The Christian celebration of Easter with the Hindu celebration of Holi. We did a range of activities including making palm leaves, writing books and making colourful splatter paintings with chalk and paint. The whole school came together at the end of the day to share all our learning.
Remember to do the Easter Challenge as your Home learning activity and we wish you all an enjoyable and relaxing break.