Summer Term

W/C 08.07.24

We have ended our 'under the rockpool' topic with a week on pirates. The children made themselves pirate hats and eye patches and learnt some pirate songs. 

We ended our week with Sports day. The children tried lots of different activities alongside many of our mums and dads. A big thank you to all the Year Three children who helped the children at the different stations.

W/C 01.07.24

This week we have consolidated our knowledge of the animals that live in the oceans. We have learnt their names and some facts about them. The children decided they wanted to make one large octopus instead of lots of small ones. They worked together to make the eight legs and then created  a face for it.     

We have been enjoying our P.E. sessions with Mr Murphy. The children are much better at following instructions and working with equipment such as bean bags and balls. We have finished our lessons by following instructions with the parachute.

W/C 24.06.24

The highlight of our week has been our Teddy Bears Picnic. We began by baking fairy cakes on Monday for us to take on our picnic. On Tuesday we all brought in our teddies to join us on our picnic.  We prepared the crackers and cheese together and helped to take our blankets, food and balls over to the meadow area in the big playground. We had a great time and it was lots of fun playing on the climbing equipment and having lots of space to run around with the footballs. 

On Thursday we had our third visit from the Foundling Museum. This week we found out about how the foundlings spent their time during the day. We had a go at doing our own sewing onto pieces of hessian material.

W/C 17.06.24

We began this week by making turtles out of paper plates as part of our 'Under the rockpooll' topic. We have been revisiting the story throughout the week, thinking about the characters and sequencing the story through pictures and role play. We used our drawings to help us verbally retell the story. 

We had our second visit from the Foundling Museum on Thursday. This week we learnt how important it was for the children to have friends and saw a picture of what the Foundling hospital looked like. We made a big friendship web and talked about why we like our friends. After we made clay tokens which we decorated and cut in half so we could keep one half for ourselves and give the other half to our friend.  

Outside we have been cleaning cars, making pizza in the mud kitchen, making marks and continuing to hunt for minibeasts. Woodlice seem to be the favourite at the moment.   

W/C 10.06.24

We are continuing our work around the sea and have learning about size with shells and beginning to learn the names of some of the animals and things that can be found under the sea. We sorted real shells into size order and then cut out paper shells to order. We also practised out cutting skills by creating  our own under the sea pictures.

We have been very good this week at collaborative play with our friends and there has been lots of group activities going on, for example, we have been camping, playing cars and making a house. We even made a chain to work together to put the blocks away. Outside in the garden we have building in the sand with large construction pieces and playing 'at the office'.  We have been making our own marks to record our telephone conversations.

This week we have started a six week workshop run by the Foundling Museum. The workshops will tell the story of the Foundling Hospital founded by Thomas Coram. This week we learnt about who Thomas Coram was and what he did. This was achieved through a selection of role play, games and  music. We then went to the tables to create our own foundling children stick puppets. We finished by pretending to get ready for bed and listening to a lullaby just as the foundling children would have in the Foundling Hospital.

During free play outside,  we have been having fun in the sand, exploring cornflour, playing with the parachute and watering our plants.

W/C 20.05.24

We have finished our topic by learning about how we have changed since we were babies and how we will change in the future. We have been taking care of our babies in class many of us brough in our baby pictures to share with our friends. We also had fun altering our photos to see what we might look like when we grow older. 

Outside in the garden we have been developing our fine motor skills by using scissors to cut leaves and in the construction area we dressed up as builders to fix equipmewnt in the playground. there was a lot of interest in the snails the children found after the heavy rain.

W/C 13.05.24

This week we set the children a challenge to see what they could build with paper cups and lolly sticks. They came up with some imaginative ideas.

During free play we have been revisiting our 3D shapes with the wooden blocks, learning our numbers with the dominoes and playing with the magnet rods. They make good weights to practice weightlifting. We have been taking good care of our pea  plants, which are growing well. 

During free play we have been using nuts and bolts to improve our fine motor and hand eye co-ordination. Some of us have been learning to draw butterflies by following a template. On the maths table we have been matching quantity to numerals.

W/C 29.04.24

This week we continued our work on plants and planted pea seeds for us to care for. We have begun reading the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle to support our work on the life cycle of a butterfly.  We have been practicing our letter formation by making caterpillars using the letters of our names and we have also been drawing caterpillars outside in the garden. On the creative table we have been making fruit printing patterns using some of the fruit from the story. 

The sun has been shinning for some of the week and we have spent a lot of time out in the garden. We have also been enjoying our weekly music sessions. We have been exploring different types of music and learning high and low sounds, 

W/C 22.04.24

This week we have been learning abut plants and what we need to do to help them grow. We made our own small pot people and planted cress seeds in them to grow up as hair. We have had lots of fun pretending to grow plants with the soil and flowers and have been creating our own gardens. At storytime we have been reading Jasper's Beanstalk and Jack and the Beanstalk. On the creative table we have been painting plowers with the block paints. Our role play area has now changed into a Florist shop.

W/C 15.04.24

Everyone is back refreshed and eager to learn. This term our topic is 'How do things change?'. We will be learning about different life cycles and our re text is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Within our topic we will also be learning about healthy and unhealthy foods. We began this week learning the names of baby animals. We cut out the baby animals and then stuck them onto our farm template with their adults. Outside we went on an animal hunt. We had a sheet with baby animals on and we had to hunt around in the nursery garden to find the adults.