For the first couple of weeks of the Summer term we will be finding out about dinosaurs. During the holiday could your child visit the library to look for dinosaur books, find out some dinosaur facts and learn some of the different types of dinosaurs. They can bring dinosaur books into school to share with the class.

Happy Easter

This week we have listened to Mr Wolf’s Week, What’s The Time Mr Wolf? and Jasper’s Beanstalk. The stories have helped us with our work about time.

Can the children listen to the stories again and recite the days of the week. Do they know which days are the weekend? Can they use words like yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, next week to talk about things they do or have done.

Ajai has mislaid a black zip PE top which has his name in. Please check your child’s PE bag.

Next week in maths we shall be exploring time. Over the weekend could the children see how many times they can –

jump in one minute

write their name in one minute

write numbers in order in one minute

which number can they count up to in one minute

Thursday 7th March is World Book Day. For homework can the children –

1. Choose which book character they would like to dress up as on Thursday
2. Have a photo taken of them reading their favourite book. Please add the photo to Tapestry or send a copy into school.

Happy reading!

Can you please check your child’s PE bag as 3 children have mislaid black zip jackets. We have found a navy blue zip jacket and joggers, neither items are named.

Next week we shall be finding out about the Chinese New Year. We have sent home a sheet so that everyone in your family can discover which animal matches the year they were born. Please write the information on the sheet and return it to school on Monday.

L Pollard and A Hellyar-Jones

As part of our work around the Jill Murphy book Whatever Next we have started to identify and discuss the planets. We have listened to Gustav Holst’s Venus, Mercury and Mars. Can the children choose one of the planets they would like to listen to with you.

In maths we have been exploring capacity. The children are good at using the vocabulary e.g. full, nearly full, half full…

We have been comparing how much different containers can hold, for example, “The blue cup is full of sand. If I tip the sand into the yellow bowl, will the bowl be full?”

Could the children find a variety of containers and explore capacity. Please add any photos or comments to Tapestry or the Home School Book.

Thank you

This week in Forest School the children have enjoyed making ice decorations. This weekend we would like them to make some at home.

The children will select some natural objects such as conkers, leaves etc and add them to muffin tins which have some water in. They will then add some string which will be the handle . Leave the muffin tray outside and the children can keep checking to see if the water has turned to ice. Can they talk about the process? Are they able to tell you what would happen if they took their ice decorations inside?

Please add any photos to Tapestry.