Thank you so much to everyone who attended our reading afternoon to share a lovely book with your child and spend some quality time together
This week we have been researching Famous Pirates ☠️
We have also been making our own Jolly Roger’s
Class 2 were absolutely flabbergasted to find an awful crime had been committed in their classroom! Someone had trashed the class AND stole one of our precious items!!
After we found the awful crime scene we decided to make some wanted posters in the search of this evil pirate, making sure he can’t commit anymore terrible crimes!
This week we found a mysterious treasure chest in our classroom. Once we had opened it we found lots of amazing items, we think a pirate must have left it in our classroom! But why? We then realised we don’t actually know much about pirates and we want to learn more! So we came up with our own pirate questions which we are going to research and become pirate experts!
This morning reception performed their spring show Jack and the Beanstalk and they were absolutely AMAZING! Confident, loud voices with beautiful singing and acting! We are so all incredibly proud of them!
This week we have been learning all about spring and growth! We observed the weather outside and looked at photos of us from winter. What has changed? We then planted sunflower seeds and wrote some fantastic instructions on planting a seed.
“It wouldn’t grow in spring because it’s icy and not loads of sunshine.” Leo
“We have to remember to water it because it won’t survive or grow all beautiful” Holly
“When it was winter I wore a hat to keep my head warm but I don’t now because it’s hot.” George
This week we have been retelling Jack and the Beanstalk using recently introduced vocabulary!
We used the vocabulary:
Enormous
Humongous
Suddenly
Gigantic
Angry
We created a story walk and we each walked the story verbally retelling it. We then ordered the story and again verbally retold it. Once we were secure with retelling the story we had a go at writing some of the key parts! Look at that gorgeous writing!
I am absolutely amazed by the incredible progress our wonderful reception children have made with their reading! We are now confidently chunking up longer words to support our reading, and some of us can even read them fluently! Our attitude towards reading has been fantastic – when we encounter something tricky, we don’t give up, we try again!
Camouflage Caterpillars
Yesterday afternoon we explored how caterpillars camouflage and hide from their predators. We made caterpillars from wool and hid them in the grass, we then challenged our friend to become a hungry bird and go seek our caterpillars.
“Caterpillars camouflage best in the grass and mud because they are green and black” Izabella
“They are the same colour as the grass and trees so they blend in. The caterpillars need to be camouflage because the birds are predators and carnivores.” Lewi
This week we introduced our new topic ‘Spring and Growing’. We read the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and created a story map to help us re tell the story! We used story spoons to order the story and retell verbally. The children were amazing at using vocabulary such as lifecycle, chrysalis and change!
On Tuesday we were shocked to find real life caterpillars in our classroom, we are so excited to watch the lifecycle of a butterfly happen in our classroom!
we have also loved investigating bugs this week, we have asked so many questions about the similarities and differences in the bugs! ️
