The end of another week already and what a lovely Spring day it turned out to be!
This week our book was Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. The children have been drawing and writing about the main character Jasper and had some fantastic ideas about what they thought might be at the top of the beanstalk he grew. Fairies, unicorns, friends, castles and princesses to name a few but my favourite was the cotton candy van that gave away free cotton candy! Yum!
They have also really enjoyed exploring different types of seeds and planting their own sunflowers. We have also sown some cress to see how much quicker it grows than our other seeds.
In Maths we have been learning more about 10 and have been working on finding and recalling bonds to 10. Today some of the children were even exploring 3 or 4 parts – so 2 and 3 and 5 or 2 and 3 and 3 and 2!
In Phonics we are continuing to consolidate our knowledge of the Phase 3 sounds and tricky words and have been looking at longer words with double letters e.g. butter, bigger, dinner, shimmer and they even read the word fan-tas-tic brilliantly! Well done to those who managed to read their reading books five times this week and earn a dip in the lucky dip box. We are aiming for fluency so each book must be read at least three times before it is changed. If you are logging on to the Collins Ebooks that are available to them, please just record this in their reading record too! Thank you.
Just a reminder that PE is on FRIDAY only until Easter. Children should be in their PE kits on this day. Trainers should only be worn on PE days.
Next week we will be learning about animal lifecycles and will be reading the book The Ugly Duckling. We have already had some discussions about what sorts of creatures hatch from eggs and which animals give birth to their young, but will be looking more into different lifecycles next week.
It is of course World Book Day on Thursday, so we look forward to seeing who the children decide to come to school as and hearing all about their favourite book characters. There will be a little surprise in store for the children and I am sure it will be a wonderful day.
Hopefully this afternoon’s sunshine will stay a while! Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny