The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This week, we have read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We looked closely at the beautiful illustrations noticing the collage effect that Eric Carle has used to create them. We talked about some of the vocabulary in the story such as tiny, cocoon, nibble, stomach ache, pickle and salami. Together, we created a story map and have been using it to retell the story with actions. We will continue to retell the story next week and write some sentences too.
Help at home: Why don’t you practise retelling the story at home? You could create a stage from cushions and allow your child to perform it to you using the story map and the actions we have been using at school.
Real Life Caterpillars
To support our love for the story and our Understanding The World curriculum, we have welcomed some new little creatures into class this week. We will be observing how they grow and we look forward to their amazing transformation.
Maths
Throughout the year, we have been expanding our pattern knowledge. This week, we have been practising continuing a repeating pattern in a circle. It’s trickier than you think and the children have done a fabulous job at completing this challenge.
Fun in the Sun
Now that the sun has finally made an appearance, we have been enjoying our outdoor area in different ways.
Taking safe risks
Looking for minibeasts
Looking for signs of Spring
Challenging ourselves and creating new games
Help at home: As the weather improves and the Summer time begins, please note that your child can bring sun cream and sun hats with them to school. To avoid allergy risks, sun cream should be labelled with your child’s name and handed to a teacher in the morning. The sun cream will be returned home each day. Please apply sun cream in the morning before school. Your child will then top up their own sun cream themselves at lunchtime if needed.
Swimming
Our swimming lessons continued for Rainbow Class this week. Here are the swimming dates for the rest of the half term:
- Wednesday 22nd – Rainbow Class
- Wednesday 29th – Sunshine Class
- Wednesday 6th – Rainbow Class
- Wednesday 13th – Sunshine Class
- Wednesday 20th – Rainbow Class
Support from parents
To support our upcoming learning, please could we politely request some compost and annual flower plant (such as petunias, pansies, marigolds) donations so that we can plant some pots with the children and enhance our outdoor area. Thank you in advance for your support.