This half term we are looking at different types of animals and insects. When we arrived to school on Tuesday we had some caterpillars in our classroom. 🐛 We talked about the caterpillars and discussed what they might need to survive. After reading the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’, we knew that a caterpillar Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’, we talked about who made the gingerbread man and who ran after him. We noticed that the fox tricked the gingerbread man into jumping onto his nose and gobbled him up. We used adjectives to describe the fox and Read more
This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man in our literacy lessons. We have learnt how to retell the story and we have been designing our own gingerbread person. The children used coloured icing pens to help with their fine motor skills and chose the decorations carefully. They had Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ and answered lots of questions. We talked to our partners about how Goldilocks was feeling when she woke up to the bears and how the bears were feeling when they saw Goldilocks in their house. We tried our Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week off by reading the story and talked about the different characters from the story. In our topic afternoon we talked about the different materials used to build the pig’s houses and discussed the properties Read more
This half term we are learning all about fairy tales and the areas in the classroom have changed to make them all about fair tales. We started the week off exploring the areas, we have the castle area, the Three Little Pigs building site, Jack’s house, the porridge area, the Read more
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more
This half term, we are reading the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in English. Last week, as part of our experience lessons, we went for a walk in forest school, pretended we were Little Red Riding Hood and used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary about what she might see, Read more
We have been redesigning some of our favourite book covers. How impressive are our drawings?!
For our English lesson today, we had an experience day where we went for a walk in the deep, dark wood. We used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary to use in our writing. We discussed what Little Red Riding Hood might see, hear hear and feel and how she might Read more