Friday 1st March

Fe fi fo fum…..

The children in Wallaby class enjoyed another week of Jack and the Beanstalk in English where they retold the story using the class story map and wrote parts of the story in their books using pictures as prompts. They searched for magic beans around the classroom and imagined making wishes as to where their magic bean would take them! To end the week, children had the opportunity to innovate the story where they changed the character, what grows and what is stolen. They had some super ideas! Children also enjoyed Jack and the Beanstalk themed activities around the classroom including matching the correct amount magic beans to numbered planting pots, playing Jack and the Beanstalk snakes and ladders, creating puppets to retell the story, constructing a house that Jack might live in at the end of the story and creating their own story maps.

In maths children have consolidated their understanding of the composition of numbers by investigated the numbers within 7. They enjoyed using the song ‘ 7 little ducks’ to help them. They have also been learning about squares and rectangles and beginning to think about their properties.

In RE children have started thinking about new life and how this links to Spring in particular the birth of different animals. Their work on plants and growing has continued where they thought about the question ‘what is a plant?’ They explored different types of plants and what makes the same and different and sorted different pictures into what was a plant and not a plant. Children went on to consider how we know that plants are alive and planted their own sunflower seeds. Some children had a go at some observational drawings of sunflowers which look beautiful next to their daffodil pictures from last week. The cress seeds the children planted last week have grown brilliantly and the children enjoyed sampling their cress by making cress sandwiches! In PE they have continued their work on jumping and landing and using different apparatus to help them achieve this.

Well done on another great week of learning Wallabies!