Welcome back after the long Easter break. Just a short blog this week. Hopefully you all had a fantastic time and didn't eat too much chocolate ! This half term we are looking at minibeasts and we've started off by looking at snails.
We have thought about everything we know about snails - we did know quite a lot of facts. We have looked in non fiction books to find out about things we were not sure of. Did you know that the soft part of a snail is called its foot? Did you know that in cold weather snails like to bury themselves? We also found out that snails prefer dead, brown, smelly leaves to eat rather than nice, green, fresh leaves - yuk ! In class we have 3 snails called Jill, Jack and Johnny and we love watching them move about their tank - although they are doing quite a lot of pooing - Mrs Young isn't looking forward to cleaning out the tank ! We also found out that snails and slugs are different creatures - snails do not turn into slugs when they lose their shell !
Courtney checks on our snails
We have made lots of snails using playdough, floam and paper. We also looked at The Snail by a very famous artist called Matisse. We then tried to make our own 'Matisse' style pictures - look out for them on the display outside our classroom.
Daniel makes a fabulous snail
Jona's snail has a slippery, slimy trail
Rosanna makes a paper snail
Jordan makes a huge floam snail !
Jessica-May works on her 'Matisse' snail
Taloola is really concentrating
Ebony rips her paper carefully for her 'Matisse' snail
In maths we have been learning how to tally and make tally charts. We then tried to make our own tally charts about minibeasts. We are also practising how to count forwards and backwards to and from 30.
In phonics we have a whole new set of tricky words to learn so keep practising at home please. We are now working on PHASE 4.
Phonics games
Alfie is going to take Diggory home this weekend because he has been listening so well on the carpet recently. Well done Alfie - have fun.
Taloola was in the Good Work Book today because she has made such fabulous progress with her reading and writing. Well done Taloola !
Thanks to everyone who has been practising their phonics and reading over the holidays - you can really tell the difference !
See you next week.
Grasshopper Class