May Time!

Wow! Wasn't our dance amazing! We have put some pictures on the web site. We were so lucky to have a lovely warm sunny morning for our dancing and the children did so well with the singing.
This week we have been gardening. We have planted out sunflowers, beans, tomatoes and marigolds. Everything is beginning to grow and the children are very excited. We now have a froglet in our tank!
It will be good to see that our plants have grown over the holidays. We wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable break and look forward to hearing all your news when you get back!

Jack and The Beanstalk

We have had an enjoyable week reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have done some amazing writing. Some children have managed to retell the story in their own words and have made some fantastic books. We talked about 'wow' words and used words to describe the giant and Jack. Some children included wow words in their writing. Our beans are beginning to grow in the classroom and in our green house outside. Hopefully we will have beans to eat when we come back in September!
This week we have been learning about weight. We have used Maths language to describe weight and we have also used the compare bears and the Numicon to explore number and weight. Next week we will be weighing different items using grams.
next week we will be dancing on Thursday and Friday. Our dance is really coming on well and the children are looking forward to showing it and celebrating May day. Our home work is to find out about May Day, draw a picture and write a sentence.

Time

We have been learning about time in Maths this week. We looked at pictures and sequenced them and talked about what time we did those thinks such as when we go to bed. We have explored clocks and we have talked about the hands. We read the story of 'The Bad tempered ladybird' and we put our clocks to the correct time. We have used sand timers to explore how much we can do in a minute. For example jumping up and down, singing a song etc. Perhaps you could continue to explore some of these themes at home.
We have learned about how to plant a bean and we have all planted our own. We talked about what plants need to grow and we wrote about how to plant a seed using 'bossy' words. We will watch them to see if they grow.
In computing we have looked at the 2create 'super story' programme. Several children have had a go at writing their own books and we have had some great results.
Our home learning this week is to explore weighing as we will be learning about weight in Maths next week.

Feathers!

Our chicks grew very quickly this week and have already got feathers. We have continued to observe them all of this week and we all felt sad when they had to go home to the farm. We have had an exciting and informative week.
We had a lovely session at forest schools. The children did three activities; pond dipping, muddy kitchen and making Andy Goldsworthy pictures with natural found materials. We were lucky enough to find three newts in the pond. The children made some fantastic natural pictures which included faces and a three dimensional tripod.
We have continued to learn about subtraction and some of us have been practicing it in Learning Through Play.
Our home Learning this week is to play games outside. The weather is expected to be nice so we are looking forward to finding out what you have all done!