Class 1 Blog

Welcome back! I hope you all had a lovely half term, the children have enjoyed sharing all the different things they got up too! This week our learning has been based around 'Owl Babies'. The children have enjoyed the provision that has been based around this this, such as writing how the babies were feeling, painting owls, and lots more! We worked as a class to label parts of a flower, the children impressed me with their knowledge of petal/stem/leaf/roots.  Some things we have enjoyed this week are: Shove Tuesday - pancake races, pancake cafe, ingrediants list for pancakes, cutting up fruit, decorating their pancake and of course, eating it! in maths we have been representing different numbers on the tens frames using two colours. So I would put 4 red counters on and 4 yellow counters on, the children would successfully put 8 counters on and would be able to say "i see 4 red and 4 yellow together there is 8" and one more and one less than a number  writing messages

This week our learning has continued to be based around 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children have enjoyed the provision that has been based around this this, such as making caterpillars out of different materials, making their own life cycles of a butterfly and completing some amazing independent writing. Some things we have enjoyed this week are: exploring the mud kitchen - sorry about muddy clothes, we do try and remind children to wear the mud suits and put their wellies on ;)  exploring time, seeing how many things we can do in a minute, e.g. writing our name, jumping, starjumps looking at photos from when we were younger and talking about what we were doing at that age building obstacle courses outside and risk taking by balancing the blanks on the tree stumps and jumping off! using our phonics knowledge in our writing  Phonics: This week we have been reviewing some of the sounds that we have already learnt. I will be sending the children home with the sound mats th

This week our learning has been based around another Eric Carle book, this time it was 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children have enjoyed the provision that has been based this, such as making caterpillar paper chains, caterpillar headbands, writing about parts of the story and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.   Some things we have enjoyed this week are: exploring the mud kitchen - sorry about muddy clothes, we do try and remind children to wear the mud suits and put their wellies on ;)  making pairs  building obstacle courses outside  using a variety of different materials when creating  using our phonics knowledge in our writing  learning about the life cycle of a butterfly - particularly about how the caterpillar sheds its skin when it has eaten lots of food  Phonics: This week we have been reviewing some of the sounds that we have already learnt. These were qu ch sh and th. I have been sounding out words with these sounds in and the children have been wri