The highlight of our busy week was starting the next part of our Wild Challenge and finding out all about worms and setting up our wormery. On Wednesday afternoon we learned some interesting worm facts – like worms have five hearts and are covered in tiny hairs – and then looked at some worms through our magnifying glasses to identify the different parts of their body. We then went outside on a worm hunt, using warm water, stamping on the ground to encourage them up and looking under logs and stones. We found lots of worms in our outdoor classroom! We had a chat about being respectful to the worms, handling them as little as possible and returning them to where we found them.

In literacy this week we’ve been looking at the rhyme patterns -un (bun, fun, run) and it (sit, fit, admit). We also did a great job of our recount writing about our afternoon looking for worms. We’ve also revised the ee and or sounds, thinking of words with these sounds and making our own plasticine donkeys. The children did a great job of listening and following instructions and we were all very impressed with the finished result!

In numeracy we’re continuing with our subtraction and numbers to 100, looking a lot this week at the language of numeracy and words like less than, count back and the difference between numbers.

We’re continuing our signing with Mrs Ryalls and are learning to sign along to an Easter song – check back again next week to see how we’re doing!