Blog by Mrs S Parkinson

Stickman

This week we have been learning all about the book ‘Stickman’. The children have been thinking about their own families and it has been lovely hearing about all the different families we have in Pool House. We learned how to draw stickman families and the children drew some beautiful…

‘Supertato – Part 2

Another amazing week in sunshine class trying to capture the ‘Evil Pea’. We started our week trying to think of ways to capture the ‘Evil Pea’ and the children thought of a very cunning plan. They all decided that the best way to catch him would be to trap him in some yummy…

Supertato’

Wow, what a fantastic week it has been in sunshine class. We started our week learning a really fun story ‘Supertato’. The story is all about a superhero potato that saves all the vegetables in the supermarket from the ‘Evil Pea’. The children made their own superhero characters with…

What a creative week we have had. We have enjoyed making our own scarecrows Harry and Betty from the story; using a variety of different tools, resources and techniques.

After finding out all about weddings, we have made our own wedding cards and a delicious wedding cake. We even acted out the…

The Scarecrows Wedding

What a super week we have had reading the story of The Scarecrows Wedding. We have enjoyed finding out about the characters and finding information in the text to describe them. We have even made up our own ending as a class. Very clever work.

“Betty and Harry have a wedding” (Matilda W)

“The cows ring their bells at the wedding” (Raphael)

“The mice finds the rings” (Ashleigh-Grace)

“The geese give feathers for the dress” (Mia)

We have all read twice to the grown ups this week, completed a group read and read stories in partners.

In Phonics we have learned p,i,n and how to put sounds together to make words. We have also learnt our new tricky word this week “the”

In Maths we have continued really understanding numbers and their values. We have continued forming and recognising numbers to 10; matching quantities to numerals.

During the afternoons we have been trying new things. We have been developing our fine motor skills and forming more established relationships.

Lots of children have been poorly this week so we hope they are all soon recovered and back at school with us.

This weeks star of the week is Ashleigh-Grace

Our merit winners are Lucian and Ruby for being superstars and following instructions.

Our kind friend award is for Tilly

Our first full week together.

What a wonderful week we have had, everybody has tried so hard with all of our activities.

It has been a week of firsts and I’m delighted with the fact that everybody has been willing to have a go and try everything.

We have enjoyed learning our first 2…

Sunshine Superstars,

So this week has been all about the children doing their favourite Sunshine things.

We have had lots of time in continuous provision, engaging in play and communication with our friends, doing our favourite things.

We have talked and written about why we are…

Rainbow blog

This week we have been learning all about colour, reading the book “The Day the Crayons Quit”

Here is some of the things we have learnt about or done in Sunshine class.

Raced in sports day on Monday

All wrote letters asking the crayons to come home

Investigated what…

Following a fabulous pirate day last Friday, we have continued this week finding out more about the life of a pirate, how they would live, and what things they would do on a ship.

We have also continued finding out more about under the sea animals by using the computer to find facts about our…

This week we have been diving under the sea to see what lurks beneath.

We have been collaging fish, octopus, seahorses and jellyfish using a variety of different textures and resources.

We have enjoyed a range of different stories – “Sharks Big Surprise” being one of Mrs Parkinson’s…

This week we have been reading the story of the Rainbow Fish. We have enjoyed learning about sea creatures, and talking about all the animals that live under the sea. We even managed to watch an episode of Octonauts every day just before we had our lunch to cool down from the Sunshine. This taught…

Our top ten moments this week have been:-

• observing our caterpillars as cocoons
• Playing football with AFC Fylde
• Acting out the scarecrows wedding in groups with props
• Writing sentences about the scarecrows wedding independently
• Learning how to subtract
• Looking at our interactive…