Summer 2

The children were very excited to get outside in the garden and go hunting for minibeasts. We found butterflies, snails, ladybirds and dug up lots of worms. We also found lots of aphids on the plants for the ladybirds to eat. As well as finding our small minibeasts we had some very large minibeasts running around in the garden. 

The weather has been beautiful this week so we have been doing lots of our learning outside. As it was so hot we made our own house from material in amongst the trees to keep cool and the boys had great fun trying to throw small balls into the water tray. Their aim is definitely improving! 

We have had great fun acting out the story using masks to create the characters 'and the ladybird never ever said a word'

Friday is our P.E. day with Mr Murphy. We are getting much quicker at changing our clothes now and some of us can do buttons as well. We have been learning to work together and stay in our own space when moving around the playground. We have also been learning lots of different ball skills using the basketballs. 

This week we have continued our work on minibeasts and have been learning how bees make honey. We watched an information video and made our own representations of honeycomb and made bees using paper plates.

Friday was our sports day. Even though we could not share the day with our families we still had loads of fun trying all the different activities. We have really improved our gross motor skills over the last year! 

This week we have had minibeasts in class in the form of beebots. We have been learning how to programme them to move in different directions around the carpet. We have also found lots of snails outside due to the damp weather and have made some excellent representations of them.  

In music we have been working with Miss Debbie. This week we used the story 'The Colour Monster' by Anna Llenas to think about how we could represent our feelings by listening to music and creating movements to represent those feelings.