Our focus text for the next couple of weeks is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We have been learning to retell the story using actions to help us. Over the next couple of weeks we shall be using the text as a starting point for –

Sequencing the days of the week

Exploring healthy and unhealthy food

Learning the life cycle of a butterfly

Independent writing

Can you share and discuss the story with your child.

The resources you collected for our art session enabled the children to create some fantastic work. We would be grateful for more sticks, twigs, leaves, petals, shells etc to enable the children to revisit the activity.

Could the children collect twigs, sticks, leaves and petals which we can use in our next  art session.

In computing this week we have been following instructions.  We have introduced the word algorithm meaning to follow a set of instructions. We played ‘Simon Says’  to encourage the children to listen carefully. Could you play this at home? Can your child follow the instructions that you give? Are they able to give you instructions to follow? Do they notice if you make a mistake?

Many thanks L Pollard and A Hellyar-Jones

Archie, in Mrs Pollard’s class. has mislaid his Muxton School coat. It has his name in the pocket. If your child has one of these coats please check they have the correct one.

Many thanks L Pollard

On Friday we are having a visit from Mr Jones who is a First Aid trainer. He will be bringing a skeleton and a variety of bones for the children to explore prior to starting to focus on the human life cycle next Monday. He will be teaching the children some facts about their bodies and a healthy life style. He will end the session with a ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ style quiz. We are sure the children will thoroughly enjoy the session and will tell you all about it on Friday evening

L Pollard and A Hellyar-Jones

This week in phonics we have introduced oa. We have listened to the story The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat to reinforce oa words. If you google it you can listen to the story at home. Can the children think of lots of oa words? Can they write them independently?

When the children have filled their green phonics book it can stay at home. They only need to bring their new green book to school every day.

Just a reminder to recap their phonics each day.

We will be holding our final phonics meeting later this term.

L Pollard and A Hellyar-Jones