weekly news 12th June

We have been continuing to enjoy our mini topic about space. In our classes we thought about all the things that we already know about space, and then we made a list of the things that we want to find out. We have been listening to songs and looking on the internet and in factual books to find the answers to our questions. We are all beginning to be space experts ! We are having fun dressing up as astronauts in our role play area and using the small world toys to create stories about space.

In letters and sounds this week we have been trying to use more interesting words or ‘wow’ words to describe what some aliens might look like. We played a game in which we had to  use our phonic knowledge to read the names of some characters and then we had to decide whether the names were alien names or earthling names. We had to sort them out, putting the earthling characters on a picture of planet earth, and the alien characters on a picture of a moon buggy.

In maths we have been making pictures using 2 dimensional shapes by listening to instructions. We had to help Baby Bear, from the story of ‘Whatever Next ?’, to rebuild his rocket after he had been stranded on the moon. For example, we had to place the shape with ‘3 straight sides’ next to the ‘shape with 4 corners’. We are getting really confident at identifying the correct shapes that we needed. This game also showed what brilliant listeners we are too. In maths also this week we did some problem-solving to find out which toy car could travel the furthest and we worked out what was the best way to measure the distance that the cars travelled. Perhaps your child could continue this learning at home with the paper aeroplane that they will make during Rocket Morning on Friday ?

All the rain we have been having has certainly helped our plants to grow, and many of the children have been helping to transplant the seedlings into bigger pots. The children are very helpful with pruning, weeding and watering the plants when needed too.

Thank you to those parents who have been uploading photos showing how their child’s sunflower is progressing. Don’t forget there will be a prize for the photo of the tallest sunflower !

weekly news 6th June

Weekly news 6^th June

This week is Mulbarton Words Week which was started off on Monday morning with an assembly led by an author called Paeony Lewis. She explained all about how she became an author and what her job involves. Peony showed us some of the books she has written including ‘I’ll always love you’ which you may have heard of, and she read us a lovely story called ‘Hurry up birthday’ which is about a young bunny who just can’t wait for his birthday to come !

We are continuing our theme about stories and over the next couple of weeks will be looking at space themed books, and this week we heard the story of ‘Whatever Next ?’ by Jill Murphy. The main character is Baby Bear and he wants to go into space but his mother’s objections are that it’s his bedtime and he hasn’t got a rocket ! We have been thinking about what we would take if we went into space and the children have written a list of what they would take. These lists are hanging up in our ‘Space’ role play area if you would like to see them.

We are really looking forward to Rocket Morning next Friday 14^th June 9-11:30am please don’t forget to send your reply slip and pay £2 via Wisepay towards the cost of this exciting morning.

The children have been using their writing skills to write a message on a card which they will bring home next Friday 14^th. Your child has decided which family member they have made their card for, whether it is for Daddy, Grandad or someone else who they love.

In Maths this week we have been developing our reasoning skills by trying to guess what number has been hidden in a little bag. We have been encouraging the children to ask the sort of questions that help them to identify the hidden number, eg. ‘Is it bigger than 10 ?’   ‘Is it an odd number or an even number ?’

Perhaps you could play this game at home too.

We have started practising our dance for the Summer Fayre for next Friday 14^th. We will be dancing at 5:10pm so please look out for up to date information about where we will meet the children before we go out to dance. The children are really enjoying learning the dance and have been making their own ‘Troll’ headdress to wear.

We have been having some visitors from the pre schools in the village and the children have been very helpful and friendly to the children and showing them around the base ! They have enjoyed seeing some of their old key-workers too.

Gressenhall trip Tuesday 26^th June: Thank you very much to the parents who have offered to help us on our trip. You will be receiving a note later on this week with more details.