Reading

Reading will be done on Monday and Thursday this week.

Literacy

Please continue with ‘Teach you monster to read.’

We will be starting to revisit the formation of all letters sounds.  This week please focus on writing c, a and d.  We call these ‘caterpillar letters’  because we start them by writing a curly c like a caterpillar.  You could use pens and paper, shaving foam, finger paint, whiteboards and pens.

Maths

Please play the subtraction game that was sent home.  This will be sent home on Tuesday.  You will need some counters and dice.  If you don’t have dice at home you get some fantastic free dice apps to download.   Please remember that when we take away everything, 0, 1 or 2 we don’t use our fingers.

Please note:  the forest will be cancelled this week.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused.  We will reschedule alternative dates very soon.

We had another great day in the forest today.  We checked on our bird feeders and many of us were delighted to find that our entire bird feeders had been eaten!  We also tied our ‘Scoop your poop’ posters to encourage other forest users to keep our outdoor learning space tidy.

We had a picnic lunch in the forest.  We all enjoyed choosing a special spot to sit with our friends and eat our lunch.

After lunch we found out about habitats.  We did a reading task to find out about different habitats that forest animals live in.  Then, in small groups, we made our own habitat for an animal we had read about.  There was great teamwork and fantastic problem solving happening everywhere!

Today we tried to find out more about a minibeast of our choosing using the iPads.  We chose a minibeast and then watched a video about it on our own iPads.  We then shared and wrote down some of our nely discovered facts!  It was great to discover so many new things that we didn’t know about minibeasts!

We are continuing to use the iPads regularly and are becoming very confident at using safari and using different apps. This week we created minibeast pictures using the iPad.

We have been using our skills in counting up in 5s to make tally charts and graphs this week.  We asked all our friends in the class ‘What is your favourite minibeast?’ We had to record our results using a tally chart.

Today we used our tally charts to complete our graphs in the sunshine.

Continue reading Reading Outside →

We had fantastic day in the forest in the sunshine today.  Many of us had said we wanted to make food for the animals.  Today we did that!

We used natural materials that we could leave in the forest to make a delicious bird feeder.  We had to poke lots and lots of seeds into an apple, attach 2 sticks for a perch and tie it onto a tree.  We all tried hard to not give up even though it was a tricky task.  We can’t wait to see if the birds enjoy our bird feeders.

We also had some more free-play in ‘Jurassic World’.  We climbed trees, threw moss, continued building our mud bridge, built dens and had fun running with our friends.  It was a great day!

Please ensure you have seen the important note about the changes to the forest times for next week.  This note should be below this post.  Thank you.

The children are desperate to have their lunch in the forest.  We will now be doing this on Wednesday 18th May.  Our forest session on this day will be 11.15am until 2.30pm.  Parent helpers for this session are:  Veer, Axel, Oliver, Neve, Abbey, Holly and Timo.  Please let me know at pick up if you are unable to help with these new times.

On Wednesday 18th May the children (and parent helpers)  should bring:

• a packed lunch and a snack
  • 2 bottles of water
• suncream and a sun hat
• The usual items required for all forest sessions e.g. waterproof trousers, extra fleece or jumper, sturdy shoes etc

Thank you.