Honeybee Class Blog (RB)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in the Resource Base.
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Our Class teachers is Miss V. Hackeson. Our teaching assistants are Miss M. New, Mrs M. Walker and Mrs G. Boon.
Honeybee Class are Reception and Year 1 children.
YR Curriculum Overview 2024-25 YR Writing Curriculum 2024-25
Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2024-25 Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Friday 17 January 2025 Honeybees - Friday 17th January 2025 'Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man,' has been the main theme this week. The children have enjoyed learning the traditional tale of The Gingerbread Man. They have learnt to tell parts of the story, name all the characters in the story and had great fun making their own gingerbread men from playdough, paints and sequins.
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Friday 10 January 2025 Honeybees Friday 10th January 2024 What a fantastic start to Term 3 in Honeybee Class!
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Friday 13 December 2024 Honeybees Friday 13th December We have had a busy week gearing up for Christmas in Honeybee Class.
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Friday 6 December 2024 Honeybee Class - Friday 6th December We have had a busy week in Honeybee Class with our focus text being Stickman by Julia Donaldson. The children have enjoyed retelling the story, making stick men of their own using playdough and loose parts, as well as looking closely at the character to create a similar image using card. The children listened well and joined in with repeated parts of the story. We have quite the story tellers in Honeybee Class.
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Friday 29 November 2024 Honeybees Friday 29th November
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Friday 22 November 2024 Honeybee Class Friday 22nd November Honeybee Class have had a fantastic week which kick started with a virtual tour of the woods. We looked closely at animals we could see and listened carefully to the sounds we could hear. The children were brilliant at naming animals and discussing where they thought they may live.
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Friday 15 November 2024 Honeybee Class Friday 15th November 2024 We kick started the week in Honeybee Class with a new story, Were Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger which follows a similar theme to Were Going on a Bear Hunt. The children enjoyed looking at the different types of leaves and the autumnal colours. They made beautiful leaf pictures using leaves for printing and a range of colours.
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Friday 8 November 2024 Honeybees Friday 8th November We have had a fantastic first week back in Honeybee Class.
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Friday 18 October 2024 Honeybee Class Friday 18th October 24 It has been another busy week in Honeybee Class. We started the week with a new story in English which focused on emotions. The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas is a fantastic book which looks at each emotion, giving it a colour and teaching the reader what we may feel like and do when we are feeling these different emotions. The character in the story is feeling all mixed up and needs help to separate the emotions to understand them. The children really enjoyed talking about what makes them feel happy, sad, calm, love, anger and fear and made some fantastic monsters of their very own. We will continue to reference the colour monsters when talking about and expressing our feelings in class.
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Friday 11 October 2024 Honeybee Class 11th October 2024 Our Honeybee's have had a busy week focusing on the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle. The children have enjoyed learning the song that accompanies the story (please see link below). We have focused on ordering the story, naming the colours and the animals. They have all really enjoyed this story and created story maps, brown bears of their own and playdough animals of their own.
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Friday 4 October 2024 Honeybees Friday 4th October What a fantastic week we have had in Honeybee Class!
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Friday 27 September 2024 Honeybees Friday 27th September What a brilliant week we have had in Honeybee Class!
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Friday 20 September 2024 Honeybees - Friday 20th September 2024 We have had a fantastic week in Honeybee Class learning all about our families. The children really enjoyed looking at photographs of their family members, naming them and making their very own family house. In addition to this the children made family members out of playdough and enjoyed using the small world area and role play area to play, 'families.'
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Friday 13 September 2024 Honeybee Class Friday 13th September Wow! What a fantastic week we have had in Bumblebee Class getting to know each other and becoming familiar with our class routines. It has been wonderful to see friendships start to blossom alongside turn taking and sharing, well done Honeybee Class!
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Sunday 8 September 2024 Honeybee Class Friday 6th September Welcome back to a brand new year and a huge welcome to our new families that have joined Honeybee Class. We have had a fantastic start to Term 1 getting to know each other, having lots of fun exploring the resources in the classroom and getting familiar with our classroom routines. We are extremely proud of all the children and how well they have settled into what is a new environment for them. You are all superstars!
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Saturday 20 July 2024 Honeybees Friday 19th July We can't quite believe we are nearing the end of another school year. What a privilege it has been to watch all of our amazing Honeybees grow and develop in so many ways over this last year! We couldn't be prouder of each and every one of them!
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Tuesday 9 July 2024 Honeybees Friday 5th July We have had a fun filled week in Honeybee Class packed full of wonderful interaction, play and spicy sandwiches.
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Monday 1 July 2024 Honeybees Friday 28th June Wow! What a colourful week we have had in Honeybee Class!
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Friday 14 June 2024 Honeybees Friday 14th June We have had a fantastic week in Bumblebee Class which kick started with the transformation from chrysalis to butterfly for two of our caterpillars. The children were very excited to see that they had transformed and were eager to make sure we fed the butterflies, they have joined us for snack all week enjoying bits of fresh fruit and sugar water. Since the beginning of the week two more have transformed, we aim to release them on Monday once their wings are dry and strong enough.
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Saturday 25 May 2024 Honeybees Friday 24th May 2024 We have come to the end of another fantastic term in Honeybee Class and we want to take this opportunity to say how proud we are of all the children. We have seen fantastic cooperative play, turn taking, super listening skills and all of the children have worked so hard - well done Honeybees!
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Wednesday 22 May 2024 Honeybees Friday 17th May We have had a brilliant week in Honeybees Class learning all about the lifecycle of a butterfly. We kick started the week with our focus book, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.' The children made caterpillars and butterflies using a range of medias, watched the life cycle of a butterfly and learnt that the butterfly starts its life as an egg, it grows into a large caterpillar, forms a chrysalis and then transforms into a butterfly. The children were fantastic at ordering the story and remembering all of the food the hungry caterpillar ate. They were very excited to hear that we will have our very own caterpillars to take care of next week, that they will watch a real life cycle of a butterfly over the next month. Watch this space!
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Monday 13 May 2024 Honeybees Friday 10th May We have had a busy week this week in Honeybee Class focusing on all things linked the the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children enjoyed listening to different versions of the story and had lots of fun acting out the story, they were fantastic trolls and goats trying to pass the bridge safely. The children became really familiar with the story and enjoyed making their very own bridges for the goats to pass, they worked together with their peers to make tall and long bridges using a range of construction materials. In addition to this they painted their own trolls, collaged them and made them from playdough.
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Monday 6 May 2024 Honeybees Friday 3rd May 2024 What a wonderful week we have had in Bumblebees Class! The week started with a visit from Cooper the therapy dog. The children really enjoyed his visit, they were very gentle with him, helped to brush him and enjoyed stroking him. Cooper will visit the children every Monday afternoon for around 20 minutes. We discovered that he really enjoys stories so we shall choose a special story to read ready for his next visit.
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Sunday 28 April 2024 Honeybees - Friday 26th April We have had a fantastic week in Honeybee's Class! The children have spent lots of time alongside their friends choosing to read books and mark make this week, we have seen fantastic sharing, playing and working together which was just wonderful.
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Sunday 21 April 2024 Honeybees Friday 19th April 2024 Welcome back! We hope everybody had a fun filled break. We have had a wonderful first week back in Honeybees Class with the children settling back into school life well.
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Sunday 24 March 2024 Honeybees Friday 22nd March This week in Honeybee Class we have been focusing really closely on what it means to be a good friend. The children have spent lots of time in small groups, or with a pair improving their sharing skills, turn taking and playing cooperatively. The children enjoyed working together to collect and transport water to different areas outside, shared equipment to improve their fine motor skills, played ball games and board games and had great fun in Bucket sessions waiting their turn to splat flowers and hide under blankets. They have played beautifully together with a range of toys which has been just wonderful to watch. We are really proud of the kindness we are seeing as they start to help each other and work as a team, well done Honeybees!
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Friday 15 March 2024 Honeybees Friday 15th March In Honeybees Class this week the children have continued their learning about plants with a new story called The Extraordinary Gardener by Sam Boughton. Using inspiration from the story they had lots of fun creating tall beanstalks and fantasy animal paintings. Their imaginations are fantastic!
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Monday 11 March 2024 Honeybees 8th March 2024 What a busy week we have had in Honeybees class as we have set our minds to all things growing related. The children have continued their growing journey with the story Jaspers Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth. In the story Jasper finds a bean, he plants it, waters it and even tends to the slugs. He then waits for his beanstalk to grow and in the end he ends up with a brilliant tall beanstalk. The children really enjoyed learning from Jasper, they chose their very own beans, planted them and watered them. They made fantastic gardeners, we can not wait to see how their beanstalks grow. The children were so engrossed with this they then worked hard to fill and empty pots with water, compost and sand using a range of equipment in our outdoor area.
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