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This half term our topic is minibeasts. The class book is the cautious caterpillar. We have been looking at minibeasts and looking at their life cycles. The first life cycle we looked at was that of the butterfly. As a class we thought it would be nice to watch the life cycle in real life. … Read more
Nursery: Earth Day Earth Day April 22nd Our planet is amazing and beautiful. Earth Day helps us learn about ways to look after our planet. Today in Nursery, we found out how we can help look after our planet by planting trees and flowers, picking up our litter, recycling and not wasting water.
Today we have been learning about Earth Day and why we think it is important. We read the book Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola.it made us think about plastic and ways we can reduce our plastic use. We felt really shocked and sad when we read the facts about plastic in the … Read more
Nursery: Phonics and Forest School In phonics this week we have been looking looked at objects that started with an ‘a’ sound, we chalked apples and alligators on the yard and we made apple pies with Miss Clark. They were yummy! On Friday we went to Forest School, we had so much fun in the … Read more
Today we have been using tools and making items from sticks using our imagination. We had fun in the hammocks, too!
We have been working out fractions of amounts. We started with pegs and cubes and had to divide them into equal groups. We worked with our Learning Partner to solve some fractions of amounts problems before we completed our work in our books.
Before we do our work on a worksheet or in our Maths books, we usually use objects that we can touch and see. This is called the ‘concrete’ stage. It helps us to model the problem and bring the learning to life. We have been finding out about fractions of shapes, so we made playdo … Read more
