We have been reading 'The Tale of the Whale' a story about a whale who takes a boy on an adventure to see the wonderful things out to sea, but the whale gulps in the ocean water and the boy sees that it's a nasty soup of plastic waste. It's a sad tale and we have been talking about what we can do to help. We have been collecting rubbish from the school grounds and reusing it (once clean) to make art. It has been lovely to hear how children have been talking about this issue at home and have been litter picking in the park.
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Over the last two weeks we have been learning about the King's coronation as it's such an important event in our history.
We have learnt who a King is and what a coronation is. We decorated the classroom, painted portraits and made our own crowns for a tea party. We also wrote letters to the King to wish him good luck in his new job. We have been looking for signs of Spring this week - believe it or not we did find some! On our walk we found blossom, flowers, nests, bees and birds. We made collages using the things we collected.
We also painted blossom pictures and some children spent hours adding lots of detail with tissue paper and other resources - the pictures were beautiful!!! We also learnt what seeds need to grow and we planted our own bean seed - we will watch it change and grow over the next few weeks. We also returned the tadpoles to the pond - we decided they would be happier there in their natural home and they would grow healthier and stronger. Our core story this week has been 'Monkey Puzzle' - butterfly helps baby monkey find his mum, but butterfly keeps getting muddled up because she doesn't know monkey's mum will look like him because her baby caterpillars don't look like her! This has got us thinking about other animals that are different to their parents at birth, for example, frogs. We enjoyed visiting the school pond to see tadpoles and we collected many to have a good look at them back in class. Some of our creative work has involved printing to make caterpillars, but best of all are the books children have made independently. We have found that many animals do look similar to their parents when they are small and we have enjoyed playing with mum and baby animals in the small world area.
We have been reading the story 'The tiger who came to tea' which has got us thinking about tigers. Some children have been making tiger masks to scare their friends. We have also been learning about an artist called Steven Brown who paints animals in multicolours so we have been painting in a similar technique. Imagine a tiger coming to tea looking like these!!!
Our key stories have both involved poorly cats going to the vets so we have set up a vets role play in class. We have been learning some key vocabulary, such as, patient, infection, injection, wound, treatment, bandage, temperature. Watch this space for a new Yorkshire Vet on the telly!
This week we have been focusing on some ball skills outside, following on from practise in Friday's Kidnectics. We have been learning how to bounce the ball between partners and by ourselves whilst having a lot of fun at the same time!
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about the moon and space. Our interest started when we read the story 'Whatever Next' - about a teddy who flies to the moon in a box. We have been asking questions to learn more, such as, could we fly to the moon? Who can fly to the moon? Can people live on the moon? Can people live in space? How do astronauts get into space? How do they get back?
We have learnt how to make rockets out of card, we've learnt how to smudge chalks and pastels to make space pictures and we've built rockets and space-scapes in construction and small world amongst other exciting things. |
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