Class 1

We are very excited in Class 1, over dinner time today two of our butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis.

All the children thoroughly enjoyed their session of Taekwondo.  They had lots of fun.

All of our caterpillars have turned into their chrysalides.  Today we transferred the chrysalides into the butterfly net.  We are now waiting excitedly for the butterflies to emerge from their chrysalides.

In forest school this week we had toast with jam or chocolate spread and  hot chocolate.  We had lots of fun making bow and arrows, stick men and hobby horses.

After 2 weeks our caterpillars have grown very big and they are nearly ready to turn into their chrysalis.

We have had lots of fun the last two weeks in forest school.  We have been whittling twigs, making stick men, putting on shows, playing games, relaxing in the hammock and enjoying hot chocolate and biscuits.

Over the past two weeks we have been identifying halves and quarters. To consolidate our topic today we used cakes where the children had to cut them into halves and quarters independently.  They did a fantastic job and they enjoyed their treat after their work.

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

Today we were told the story of Noah’s Ark.  We acted out the story outside, where we built an ark with the crates and used masks for animals and Noah.  We also used the Noah’s Ark inside to retell the story.  Some of us even built an ark in the blocks,