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  • The Crunching Munching Caterpillar!

    Published 14/05/21, by Sara Lindley

    Whilst all of our seeds are starting their growing process we will be moving on to the mini beast side of our topic. The caterpillars are coming! In fact, we have even had some very tiny ones arrive in school for us to investigate and watch them grow. Science has never been so exciting! It is going to be happening right before our eyes.

    Of course we will be reading the classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" but we will also be reading the Crunching Munching Caterpillar as this links in so nicely to our phonics for the week!

    You guessed it. We will be looking at the set 1 sounds 'm' and ' c' and the really reinforcing the digraph/ special friends 'ch' and 'ng'. We will also be thinking about words that have the sound 'u' in the middle.

    For all of the phonics use our usual websites if you want to delve a little deeper.

    Evie and dodge,  cBeebies alphabet songs, Abi's phonics ch and ng

    Now sit back and enjoy the original animation from the children's classic story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

    We also have this story with makaton signs. Signing is another means of communication for a lot of our children. It also helps them to really remember the story as the actions and movement help them to reinforce what comes next. For the F2 children this is a way we get them to start writing longer pieces of work. If they forget the story, we do the actions again and it prompts them write about what happens. This is something that happens further up the school as well so it prepares the F2 children for their next class.

    Can you spot our sign of the week for Caterpillar?

    Lets look at some real life caterpillars and the changes that happen to them as they go through their life cycle.

        

    For our maths focus this week we will be learning all about time - how long it takes for a caterpillar to grow? The days  of the week.... so our Key maths vocabulary this week will be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday!  click here to revisit the makaton video for days of the week. Have you remembered any of them from last term?

    First, then and now  will also be a feature in our maths problems this week again. We will be using these words alongside the term taking away to start to understand the concept of subtraction.

    Our number of the week will be 14.

    Our singing sessions this week will be very lively with the Creepy Crawly Calypso!

    as well as getting some of our musical instruments out to play and sing along with the tiny little caterpillar song below

    Let's get  physical and  move like bugs and crawly things too

    Then onto a bit of yoga caterpillar style.

    For the F2 children in particular our PE focus this week is ball skills - starting with sock balls! Why not have a go too at home.

     

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  • One way to learn about growing a seed

    Published 12/05/21, by Sara Lindley

    So not only have the F2 children created their own artistic masterpieces inspired by Van Gogh

    but they have also produced today and AMAZING performance just for you !

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  • How to grow a flower.

    Published 07/05/21, by Sara Lindley

    Our book this week is not a story! It is a Non -Fiction book all about growing a sunflower.

    We will be looking at all of the information contained in this book and planting our very own sunflower seeds this week. We have some seeds donated by parents and the gardening club members that help to keep our school looking so good. Thank You! Some of the seeds donated were collected from sunflowers grown last year..... just like they say in this book.

    The reason we look at these books and learn songs all about planting seeds is to help develop the children's knowledge and understanding of the world around them by learning about growth and plant lifecycles. Last week singing the story was a really successful way to get the children to remember the different stages so here is another lovely song that includes lots of the signing when we have been learning all about seeds and flowers growing.

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  • The Tiny Seed

    Published 01/05/21, by Sara Lindley

    Our stories for the Bank Holiday week (Remember we have Monday off!) The Tiny Seed and a Seed in Need!

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  • meadow class' garden

    Published 30/04/21, by Julie Gerrard

    We have been creating our own gardens this week  in class

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  • Errol's garden

    Published 23/04/21, by Sara Lindley

    Here is the author of our story this week - Errol's garden. She recorded herself during lockdown and shared the story she had written with everyone.

    Our set 1 phonics sounds this week are to be to introduce or reinforce the letters 'e' 'g' and 'm' as we will be seeing these a lot in our story and nursery rhyme. We often use Evie and Dodge to introduce and reinforce the set 1 sounds as it helps the children to learn how to do "my turn, your turn' as they do it with dodge. We follow it up with an alphabet song from cbeebies too.

    Our set 2 sounds this week will be looking closely at the two different ways the double oo sounds.                      eg look at Errol's roof garden! a short 'oo' and a long 'oo'.

    Other useful links for songs and videos about each digraph - short oo song, short oo phonics lesson, long oo song, long oo phonics lesson

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  • Was there a shark in the park?

    Published 21/04/21, by Sara Lindley

    The children went to investigate whether there was indeed a shark in the park!

    They looked everywhere but luckily we didn't find one!

     

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  • There's a Shark in the Park!!!!!

    Published 08/04/21, by Sara Lindley

    What will we be doing on our first week back?

    Our new topic for most of the Summer term is "Sunshine and Sunflowers" - lets hope for lots of both!

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  • Easter massive maths

    Published 02/04/21, by Julie Gerrard

    Having eggcellent fun!

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  • F1 bubble - Our Easter Week

    Published 31/03/21, by Sara Lindley

    The F1 bubble had fun and games this week learning all about the letter e and experiencing  lots of activities about Easter. The sun also came out which was a bonus so lots of outdoor activities too.

     

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  • Super Easter Eggs!

    Published 26/03/21, by Sara Lindley

    As we draw our topic to a close during our last week we will be thinking about Easter.

    We will be revisiting all of the stories we have read over the past five weeks to see what the children can recall.

    We will be seeing if the children can remember their super sounds. So there is no particular letter of the week this week. Instead we will be going on an Easter egg letter hunt to revisit and reinforce lots of their sounds.

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  • Is Kindness your Superpower?

    Published 19/03/21, by Sara Lindley

    We are going to be using two stories this week to reinforce kindness around the classroom.

    The superpower we are trying to promote and will hopefully  see in action this week is kindness.

    Our first story is Kindness is my superpower. If you would like to become familiar with this story please watch the video below.

     

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