Key Dates for Term 4

Timetable Changes

Monday - PE

Thursday - Forest School

Friday - PE

Week 1

This week we have learning about the Lunar New Year.

We read the story about how the animals had a swimming race to determine the order of the animals.

We tried to copy a red ribbon dance and created our own Dragon and Lion to dance around the forest School area.

In Phonics we are revising our special friends and practicing blending words containing them.

In Maths we looked at money and continued our learning about altogether and addition but by finding the total in 2 purses.

Week 2

This week we started our learning about life cycles by looking at that of a frog.

We have some frogspawn in the class and have already watch it hatch into tadpoles. We will now keep watch for them to grow legs and become frogs over the next few weeks.

We read the Teeny Weeny Tadpole by Sheridan Cain and Jack Tickle and noticed how the tadpole changed in the illustrations. Our poem this week was The Tadpole Song. We also learnt our new Red words are and be.

For Drawing Club we used Grumpy Frog by Ed Vere as our inspiration.

In Maths we looked at the composition of 5, learning the number bonds to 5. We used the song 5 Little Speckled Frogs to help us with this.

We celebrated World Wildlife day by reading about Greta Thunberg and thinking about things we could do to help wildlife.

We also celebrated World Book day by dressing as a character from a book, or wearing our pyjamas. We attended a special poetry assembly in the hall too.

In PE we began our unit on ball skills, learning to roll a small ball with control around the room and then taking a step forward with the opposite leg as we bend to roll the ball at a target.

Week 3

This week we looked at the lifecycle of a bean using Jack and the Beanstalk as our text for English. 

We also planted our own beans, noting that beans need soil, water and sunlight to grow, and that they don't grow overnight as they do in the story.

For Drawing Club we used the text Grandad's Secret Giant by David Litchfield. We thought about what we could do to make the giant feel welcome.

In Maths we began thinking about numbers larger than 10 and how we write them, 1 lot of 10 and __ more.

Week 4

This week we took a break from looking at Life cycles to look at the changing seasons. The brighter weather certainly helped it feel more spring like.

This week's story was "What the Ladybird Heard" by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We created our own picture books of farm animals and wrote the directions of the 2 bad guys cunning plan.

For Drawing Club we used "Doug the Bug" by Sue Hendra as our inspiration.

We also had a go at telling our own stories which we acted out on Friday afternoon, we used both What the Ladybird Heard and Doug the bug for ideas.

In Forest School we created our own pebble ladybirds. We went hunting for real ladybirds around the area and found some enjoying the sunshine along the fence.

In Maths we continued to look at teen numbers, working from 15 to 20.

In PE we continued to develop our ball skills and took our learning into our Independent Learning time by creating targets to aim for.

Week 5

We had a very active week this week. In PE we continued to practice our balls skills and our gymnastic skills. We also had a taster session with Rugby Tots which the children thoroughly enjoyed.

In English we read "What the Ladybird Heard Next", and from this we created our own imaginary animals and created wanted posters.

For Drawing club we used "The Baddies" another story by Julia Donaldson as our inspiration.

In Maths we learnt about doubles, creating doubles on the back ladybird outlines and finding doubles on dominos. 

We also learnt about the life cycle of a chicken. We were able to watch Year 1's eggs hatch to help us understand this more.