Easter

We had some easter fun this week.

Mrs Budge read us a story called Making a Rabbit and we used the information to create our own rabbits.

 We also had an easter egg hunt in the classroom and then wrote some cool easter stories. We will be publishing the stories soon so you can come and read them.

The Farm Concert

Our big book this week was 'The Farm Concert' by Joy Cowley.

We looked at punctuation like speech marks, exclamation marks and full stops. We practiced making our animal noises and changing our volume depending on the size of the writing. Our popwords were 'the' and 'went'.

Come listen to us reading The Farm Concert.

Swimming

We have loved swimming this term. We have learnt how to do a safe entry and exit. We practiced putting our head under water, blowing bubbles and learning how to kick properly.  Some of us can even pick items from the bottom of the pool.

However, our most favourite part of swimming was our free time where we explored the water and tested out our skills on our own.

Math: Legs! Legs! Legs!

As part of our rich maths learning, we were set the challenge of figuring out what a group of animals that had 12 legs all together could look like. Here are our answers.

Isn't it amazing how many different combinations you could make! Did you think a group of animals that we didn't think of?

Who am I?

Today the Hippo reading group made their own 'I am' story. The children have been learning to find their names and then point and recognise their very important 'first letter'. Our sentence starter has been 'I am' and they have become known 'popwords' for the children. They helped me write their sentence and then each child glued their name and photo. Using our pointer fingers we read our own sentences, by pointing under each word and bouncing over the spaces. We now know that a sentence always finishes with a full stop.  

Our Very Hungry Caterpillar Week

This week we have reading the story "The very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle.

   

 Here is a collage with some of the things in our class this week.

We did

• observational drawings of a swamp plant, butterflies and caterpillars. 
• used the ipad to explore "The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends' app. 
• sequenced picture cards and retold each other the story using picture cards and playdough. 
• made homes for the hungry caterpillar using straws made caterpillars out of egg cartons. 
• listened to eric carl's stories (see our listening to reading, under the reading tab).
• ordered numbers from 1 to 10 to make a caterpillar.
• made grape and marshmallow caterpillar fruit kebabs.

Here are some of our clever kids retelling the story of the hungry caterpillar for you.

   

Self Portrait

In our class we have been talking about 'What makes me special?'. We realised that one thing that made us unique was the way we looked. Some of us had different eyes or hair or skin. Others had similar eyes or hair or skin but all of us look different and that makes us special!

Here are our self portraits. We drew them using mirrors to look at the different features of our face.