Sunshine Class

This week we have been working hard to learn more about the weather and where in the UK would have which weather. We have been really clever finding out that low temperatures mean it is cold and high temperatures mean it is hot. We even enjoyed dressing up to read out our weather reports and some…

Crunching, Sliding and Gliding through winter

This week we have found out all about Winter

Here is our Winter Blog poem of all the things we have done

Watercolour painting winter pictures

Ice skating – twirling, spinning, sliding

New sounds in Phonics – w, y, z

Time to…

A Wintery Week

This week we have been finding out all about Winter. We have particularly enjoyed learning about hibernation and that some animals go to sleep for a very long time when it is colder during the Winter months. We have also discussed migration and that the birds fly away to warmer…

Happy new year from all of us in Sunshine class. We have really enjoyed all being back together and have spent some quality time together this week.

At the start of the week we caught up on what was special for us all whilst we were off school and then decided what our new year’s resolutions…

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…

It has been an amazing week in Sunshine Class and the children have made me feel very welcome in School. This week we have been learning all about bonfire night. The children learnt about why we celebrate this on the 5^th of November, learning all about Guy Fawkes the Gunpowder Plot. We did lots of…

And Whoosh they were gone….

This week’s story was Room on the Broom and we have thoroughly enjoyed reading it, watching it and discussing our favourite parts. We have performed the story with musical instruments for each character.

We have enjoyed finding out all about pumpkins and have had…

Dem Bones Dem Bones…

What a funny week it has been in Sunshine class finding out all about our bones and why we have them.

We have loved reading and watching the Funny Bone stories, finding the repeating vocabulary in the book and talking about our favourite parts of the stories. We have…

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

Its all about me…

This week we have really focussed on sharing our likes and interests. We have talked to our new friends and played with our favourite things.

One of the main areas for learning this week has been Expressive Arts. Everybody has drawn a beautiful self-portrait using a mirror…

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…