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A special letter
This week we have been reading Matisse’s magical trail by Tim Hopgood and Sam Boughton. Matisse is a magical snail who, at night, draws pictures for children to find. This morning we received a letter from Matisse and a bag containing pens and stones. He asked us to create our own magical drawings. We had…
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Bug Hotels
This week we made our own little bug hotels in old tins. We used a selection of sticks, straw, stones, pine cones and leaves to fill up our tins. We made sure there were some tightly packed spaces but also some space for little bugs to crawl into and hide. We then went outside and…
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Caterpillars!
This week we received a very special parcel. Inside were caterpillars, food and all the equipment we need to support the caterpillars to grow into butterflies.We carefully placed each caterpillar into its own pot with the correct amount of food. Today we have watched them wiggling and crawling around their pots. Each night we carefully…
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Patterns
Today in art we were learning to create patterns using things we could find in the classroom. This linked to our maths learning too. We started by looking at some of the fabulous pictures that the artist Andy Goldsworthy creates. These inspired us to create our own patterns. We all had great fun and are…
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Welcome back!
We started our new term by reading the non-fiction book ‘Our World’. We discovered lots of different environments in our world. We learnt what they were called, what they looked like and where we would love to visit and not love to visit! We also painted ‘our world’, thinking carefully about the colours and shapes…
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Pancakes!!
On Tuesday Class 1 had great fun making, flipping and eating pancakes. We followed a recipe together to make the batter, all helping to weigh out and measure the ingredients. milk….. eggs….. flour….. Together we whisked and discussed how the mixture was now a liquid and we could pour it into a pan. We all…
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Snow!
Today we had the joy of snow! We all wrapped up warmly and went outside to explore! It was quite wet and slushy but very cold. We made footprint patterns in the fresh snow and then gathered it up in our hands! It was freezing 🥶. We wanted to make some snowballs and throw them. We…
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Weaving and sewing
Last week we had great fun weaving paper strips through a paper weaving frame. We had to thread the paper over, under, through, in and out and we had to push and pull to create a pattern. This week we used plastic needles and wool to sew a line of stitches along a piece of…
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How to catch a star
This week we read the book ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. We loved this story. The little boy really wants his own star and tries lots of different ways to catch one. He climbs to the top of the tallest tree, gets a life belt, finds his rocket ( it has run…
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Whatever Next in Class 1
We have had a busy first week back in Class 1. On Monday we read ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. Through the week we have been using our imaginations like baby bear in the story and built our own rockets. We used boxes and tubes and wellies became space boots and a sieve was a…