This week we have been reading Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. It has lots of really good describing words in it and we have been learning how to describe different animals using words like - fierce, small, long, scarey, slippery etc. We have also written to our local zoo asking if we could perhaps have a pet of our own to keep.
Well you would not believe what the zoo have sent us .........
On the first day they sent us a deer - we had to send him back because he was much too big.
On the second day they sent us a snake - oh dear me Mrs Young did not like that (even though Bailey thought we could keep it because his grandad used to have one and he knows a lot about snakes). Anyway Mrs Ball said it was far too scarey so we had to send him back too.
On the third day they sent us a really sweet little monkey - but he was quite naughty and kept on jumping about all over the place. We don't have enough room for a monkey so I'm afraid we sent him back aswell.
On the fourth day they sent us a FROG - goodness me what can we do with a frog? He was far too jumpy so he's gone back to the zoo aswell. We've got the weekend now so Mrs Young is hoping that the zoo thinks really hard and sends us something a bit more 'pet-like' on Monday.
On Thursday we had a brilliant time having a go at karate. We had to copy the instructor doing lots of jumps and kicks and it was great fun. Mrs Ball was surprisingly good at karate too - I wonder if she goes to a club?
We have been using the instruments this week in music and learning to keep a beat. Have a look at the pictures of our fantastic bands.
On Monday we have a phonics drop in (in our classroom) at 9.00 to show mums and dads (and carers) how we are learning our phase 3 phonics. We hope to see lots of you there - it will only take 25 minutes and it will be really useful.
Must hop along now.
Grasshopper Class