This morning Year 4 and Year 1 Oaks had a shared reading morning. The children shared Christmas stories and reading books. They took turns to read to each other and discussed the story. Year 1 Oaks said that they really enjoyed themselves!
We have had lots of deliveries to school which means lots of boxes and Buttercups have put them to good use! We have used the boxes and materials to make dens and have written messages all over them.
This week we have set our butterflies free! We watched them grow from caterpillars to cocoons and then into butterflies. The children each took a turn to hold a butterfly before setting it free in Kayden’s Garden.
We had lots of Easter fun this morning trying to find as many paper eggs as we could in our Easter egg hunt. Well done to all of the winners!
This morning we have had a very special visitor in Buttercups, Charlie chocolate chick (named by the class)! We made sure we were quiet and gentle as we each had a turn holding or stroking the chick.
Ths week we have been learning about weight. For our snack yesterday we made cakes using the balance scales. The children had to balance all of the ingredients with the eggs. We talked about the importance of weighing ingredients and following a recipe and we used lots of language related Read more…
We had lots of world book day fun in Buttercups today! We read lots of our favourite stories, we found some hidden golden tickets and we visited the immersive room which had been turned into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. We discussed the story and looked at all of the rooms Read more…
To finish off our Chinese New Year week all of the children went outside and worked together to paint a big Chinese dragon on the floor with paints. Each pair had a square of the dragon to fill. The children thought the dragon was very scary!
This week we have tasted lots of different Chinese food as it has been Chinese New Year. The children said that their favourites were the noodles and the prawn crackers. We have also looked at the Chinese New Year story and the way in which New Year is celebrated in Read more…
This week we have been using numicon to find the answer to addition number sentences.