Spring 27.03.26
This week the children in Codden Class have had great fun learning about Spring. They were excited to notice that their Giant Cress Heads had grown lots over the weekend and are now ready for a hair cut! They have been looking after the bean seeds and are hoping that they may soon see a shoot emerging from the soil!
Thank you so much to all of the parents who were able to join us for our Chick Challenge Easter Workshop! They children absolutely loved having you alongside them in the classroom and helping them with their 'Chick Challenges!'.
The children have been busy working together to create a Spring Sculpture out of recycled cardboard tubes. They helped each other by sharing ideas, helping each other cut, glue and position the pieces and are so proud of their work. They are looking forward to painting it next week.
20.03.26 - Planting Seeds
This week the children have loved being outside enjoying the sunshine! They have planted bean seeds, talked about what we need to do to look after them and can't wait to watch them grow.
In Maths we have learnt about 3D shapes, this week the children have investigated which 3D shapes they could build using magnets, they thought carefully about the number and shape of the faces.
The children loved joining in with the Comic Relief sports activities organised by the School Council. They listened carefully to the instructions and everyone joined in throwing, catching, jumping and kicking! Well done to everyone who dressed up and donated cakes for the cake sale.
13.03.26 - Jack and the Beanstalk
Our text this week has been 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children have enjoyed acting out the story sing small world and role play and have tried to recall the main events of the story in sequence.
The children were delighted to see that the daffodils that we planted in the EYFS Garden in the Autumn have grown and are now flowering. The children talked about the parts of the plant, petals, trumpet, leaves, stem, roots, bulb, and made some careful observational drawings of what they could see. They explored using pastels and blended colours together to colour their sketches.
In Maths the children have been learning about 3D shapes, they investigated which shapes can and cannot roll, and looked at what 2D shapes they could see in the faces of the shapes when they pressed them into playdough.
The children talked about what they thought plants need to grow. They have planted their own Giant Cress Heads and have talked about how they will help the seeds grow, by keeping them warm, watering them and putting them in sunlight.
06.03.26 - Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
This week the children have continued their learning based on the story Mr Gumpy's Motor Car.
The children had great fun strengthening the muscles in their upper body by when balancing on the spinning seat, they loved going round and round drawing wheels!
In Maths we have been learning about 2D flat shapes, the children learnt the names of the shapes and talked about why they might be used for a purpose. They worked together to draw a huge picture by drawing around the shapes. You might be able to spot a house, Christmas tree, snowman, monster truck, car, bus and rocket!
The children learnt how to attach cardboard together using hole punches and split pins. They added wheels to Mr Gumpy's Motor car and then went on to make their own vehicles.
The children had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day and looked fantastic in their costumes. We loved hearing about everyone's favourite book! Thank you to everyone for supporting the children with their costumes and for donating books for the book swap.
26.02.26 - My Gumpy's Motor Car
This week the children have enjoyed sharing the story 'Mr Gumpy's Motor Car', They have explored what it might be like to get stuck in mud and have made marks with vehicles in mud (brown paint!), they went round and round, up and down, up and over and made zig zag marks.
The children created wheels by printing with round objects. They thought carefully about the different sized circles, some children created patterns, some explored what sized circles could fit inside each other.
The children explored how they could make Mr Gympy's motor car travel further and faster, they investigated the different textured ramps and making the ramps different heights. They made some great predictions and observations.
13.02.26 - Lunar New Year
This week the children in Codden class have learnt about how people celebrate the Lunar New Year. They explored Chinese writing, practised their pincer grip by pinching out lucky pennies from red rice, the learnt how to fold paper accurately to make a dragon and worked hard to cut accurately to make a Chinese lantern. They learnt about why certain symbols, stories, colours and traditions are important during this celebration.
In Maths the children have continued to explore repeating patterns, this week they created circular patterns, they identified, extended and created their own AB, ABC, ABB circular patterns on paper plates.
13.02.26 - Jumping Higher and Further!
The children worked together independently and made an obstacle course, so much learning took place! They challenged each other to jump higher and further, they managed risk by putting crates on top of each other and climbed up, they worked together to share ideas, helped and encouraged each other to 'try again', they adapted and improved their obstacle course by adding extra 'challenges' and had such a fun time together!
06.02.26 - The Gingerbread Man
This week the children have had great fun acting out the story of the Gingerbread Man. They thought carefully about the characters and the sequence of the story.
The children practised the letter formation of the one armed robot letters 'r n m h p' by writing them in trays of flour, they tried hard to start and finish each letter in the correct place.
Everyone had great fun investigating what happened when the Gingerbread man fell into different liquids 'water, lemonade, vinegar, milk, lemonade and oil', they made great predications of what they thought might happen and amazing observations of what they saw happening.
The children practised their cutting skills by creating their own gingerbread man. They focussed on cutting accurately, curved lines using scissors and added detail by sticking on pom poms, sequins, stickers and shapes.
The children wrote speech bubbles for the characters of the Old Woman, the Fox and the Gingerbread Man, the children said the sentence that they wanted to write, sounded out carefully, started and finished their letters in the correct place and some even remembered to leave a space between each word.
30.01.26 - Little Red Riding Hood
The children have enjoyed acting out the story of Little Red Riding Hood in roleplay, they used words and phrases from the story and told it in sequence.
The children thought about how they could describe character of the wolf, they used words such as fierce, mean, scary, hungry, vicious, terrifying, sharp teeth, pointy claws and wrote WANTED posters to warn other people about him using the letters, sounds and words that they have learnt.
In Maths the children explored repeating patterns, they learnt to identify, extend and create repeating AB and ABC patterns.
The children have explored different ways of attaching materials together in the making area such as masking tape, split pins, staples and glue and have made flowers and baskets for Granny using their skills.
Winter Trees - 16.01.26
This week we continued to learn about what happens in Winter. We found out that some bird migrate to warmer countries and that some birds find it difficult to find food because there are less insects and berries to eat. We decided to make some bird feeders to feed the birds in our garden. We used cutters to cut out toast shapes, knives to spread peanut butter onto the toast and then pressed them into bird seed. We threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners and practiced our pincer grip which will help us with our writing. We hope that the birds enjoy our tasty treats!
In maths we have been learning to calculate pairs of numbers that equal 10, we have used tens frames, part part whole, numcion, counters, cubes, and poppets to help us. Some children challenged themselves to record their number sentences on whiteboards using the symbols + =.
09.01.26 - Winter
The children were very excited to return to school after the Christmas break to a very frosty and icy garden. They explored the ice, collected the ice and even tried to make their own ice by leaving our water to freeze over night.
The children created icy collages and used the words hail, ice, frost, freezing, snow when talking about their creations.
We talked about how the trees had changed since Autumn and learnt about the words evergreen and deciduous. The children did some really careful observational drawings of trees in the forest school area. Everyone tried to include the different parts of the tree in their drawing: roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves.