This term we were looking at Our School and the local area. 

For our creative curriculum and topic, we looked closely at people who work in our area to keep us safe, and we even had a visit from a nurse, who let us play and explore all things medical. It was so much fun, and all our parents were delighted seeing all the photos over our daily Dojo messages.

We also toured around our school and took photos, to put our own map together of the school. Some of us are great photographers.

In music, we got really good at learning to play together, and in Science, we were learning about how sound is made through vibrations, and spent a day making our own instruments, experimenting with sounds.

In RE, we spent an afternoon looking at the Sikhism religion, exploring lots of items from our prop box, and watching a short cartoon clip on it.

We had a wonderful 'Well Being Day', in which we joined our friends in the Kingfisher Class out in the woods, and played music, toasted bagels on the camp fire and had a picnic all together.

Over the term, we did lots of fun activities for our outdoor learning including making bird feeders and mud pies/soups, as well as all our other songs and cross curricular things we took outdoors.

Then, in our last week of the half term, we had a really important Internet Safety Day, in which we learned how to keep safe online.

ENGLISH

In English, we were reading and listening to texts and famous rhymes that had adventure in them such as the Ginger Bread Man. We worked this into all our lessons including PE, ICT and Maths. We got very good at recognising and finishing our favourite rhymes. We also started to take a closer look at the sounds: 's', 'a' and 't' in Phonics, by playing games such as Silly Soup, and sorting activities.

We have been practicing mark making and writing every week, using different mediums such as paint, foam, glitter, rice, penicil and crayon etc, and some of us can now write our names without any help!

MATHS

In Maths, we got fully emersed in 2D shapes, and started to look at 3D shapes. We took this learning outside too, and went on Shape hunts. 

We also spent a bit of time exploring the concept of time. We sequenced lots of daytime to night time activities, and some of us started to look at clocks in more detail, beginning to work out what 1 O'clock, 2 O'clock and 3 O'clock onwards, looks like.  We will come back to this again in our last Summer term.

Finally, as well as our daily counting and number work - where we listened and participated in lots of songs with props, we also started to look at fractions. In particular, we loved learning to half fruit and jaffa cakes... as we got to eat our halves!