This week Monkeys had a great time on our first school trip to Sandwell Valley. We explored minibeasts in the meadow and had a go at pond dipping. Well done Monkeys. […]
This week we continued our work on ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad’ and we decided to make our own fruit kebabs. The children chose which fruit to use, they chopped them up and threaded them onto their kebab skewer. Our favourite part […]
This week we continued our work on minibeasts. On Friday we celebrated Science Day by having a minibeast hunt. We found lots of creatures in our outdoor area including worms, earwigs, woodlice, ants, beetles, snails, slugs and millipedes. When we […]
This week we started our new topic on ‘Minibeasts’. Our learning was based on the hungry caterpillar and we enjoyed retelling the story, painting and writing shopping lists. We also had a special delivery of our own caterpillars and we […]
This week we continued our work on ‘The Three Little Pigs’. The children enjoyed making the houses they designed last week and we tested them using the big bad wolf which was a hairdryer in disguise. We found that the […]
This week we have been reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’ story. We have created pig and wolf masks and used them to retell the story. We have also looked at which materials are best to build houses with and designed […]
We have been reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. He climbs on the fox’s tail so he can get across the river. We predicted what would happen if he tried to cross the river himself. We thought that he would get […]
This week we have been exploring the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. We have retold the story using Talk4Writing actions, used puppets to act out the story and have made our own red hens using paint and collage. We […]
This week we have been finding out about Chinese New Year. The children enjoyed listening to the Chinese zodiac story, sequencing the story, talking about the ordinal numbers in the story, making lanterns and dragons. We also compared the UK […]
We have been exploring the story, The Gruffalo. We have taken part in a Gruffalo dance, we’ve written about the characters, made Gruffalo habitats and we even found some Gruffalo footprints in our class library! It has been lots of […]