I forgot to add the photos, sorry!

Thank you to everyone who has remembered to bring in named wellies and waterproofs this week. We have been outside as much as possible but due to the very wet weather this week we would like to use wellies and waterproofs next week as well. If you can leave them in school that would be great, if not please bring them back in on Monday.

This week the children have been learning all about mini beasts. We have been going on mini beast hunts and will continue this next week. In literacy we have been looking at the poetry book Mad About Minibeasts. We have worked in groups to recite poems, thinking hard about what actions and sounds could accompany them. We have also worked in groups and individually to write mini beast poems. We thought about how mini beasts move and came up with lots of interesting words to describe them. We even talked about alliteration…See if your child can tell you about this.

In numeracy we have been learning about data handling and have used tally marks to find out the children’s favourite mini beast. The children then turned their tally marks into a table, pictogram and block graph.

In science the children have been thinking hard about how to stop slugs eating a garden. They came up with some brilliant and interesting ideas, some of which we will be investigating further.

On Friday your child will come home with spellings and some maths homework. There will be a letter accompanying the maths explaining how you can support your child. Please ensure completed homework is returned every Wednesday.

N.B. It is our Class Assembly next Tuesday 1st May at 2.40 p.m.

This week in Numeracy we have been working with ordinal numbers. We had fun taking part in different races, then talking about who came first, second etc. We have also been putting ourselves into order, followed by putting numbers into order. Finally we looked at ‘between’ numbers e.g. think of a number, say 7, and say two numbers that have 7 is ‘between’.

PLEASE NOTE that the first maths homework will be set on 27^th April. There is a letter to follow.

In Literacy we have read the story of ‘Princess Smartypants’ and have begun work on mini beast poems. Our topic work is also based around the story. Part of this work involves going on a mini beast hunt around the school, so PLEASE send your child to school on Monday with named wellingtons in a carrier bag. Thank you.       

Our first Science experiment is stopping slugs from eating plants in our garden – this is the first task that Princess Smartypants asked a suitor to complete. Please save your plastic or card containers so that we can make miniature gardens etc. 

Welcome to our Norland Nannies Charlotte, Annie, Jess and Emily.