Well it's the last week of our minibeast topic and we have been learning all about bees. We've decided that they must be the cleverest of all the minibeasts we have looked at because they are the only insect that makes food for humans ! Also they don't only make honey - they make wax as well and royal jelly and they are able to make perfect hexagons for their honeycomb !!
We have learnt that bees have 6 legs, 5 eyes (2 massive ones and 3 little ones), 2 feelers and 2 pairs of wings (so that's four altogether). They also have 2 stomachs - one for eating and one for processing the nectar into honey. We learnt that the bees suck up the sweet nectar from the flowers with their tongue (which is like a straw) and then they 'sick it up' and it's turned into honey !! We felt this did tend to put us off honey ! We all had a taste of honey and lots of us really liked it.
Daniel spreads his honey
Alfie liked his honey on bread
Lexi gets sticky with the honey !
In maths we have been making sure that we know how to write all the numbers from 1-9 correctly. It's sometimes so difficult to remember which way the numbers go - especially numbers 3 and 7! We have also been looking at 3D shapes (solid shapes rather than 2D which are flat). We went on a great 3D shape hunt around school and we found loads of cylinders and cuboids (fire extinguishers, plant pots, bricks etc). We didn't find many spheres or triangular prisms though - why not try spotting 3D shapes in your house? We then went on to talk about 2D shapes and we looked at shapes that can tessellate (fit together without any gaps) - Lennon loved the word 'tessellate' and can't wait to impress his mum and dad with it !
Daniel on his 3D shape hunt
Reece spotted lots of 3D shapes
Jessica-May found a cylinder
Lennon and Daniel made great models with 3D shapes
Noah joins in the fun !
Miss Ball has been busy again helping us to make a huge bee and then she helped us to make a giant honeycomb by tessellating the hexagons. Have a look for it in our classroom. We also painted some great bee pictures and made some fantastic bees using loads of different resources.
In phonics we have been looking at really difficult words together (eg crunch, splash, drench). We have had to listen really carefully to hear every sound. We've also been trying to remember all our phase 3 and 4 tricky words. We are having a tricky word challenge at the moment and every day we give someone else the chance to see if they know all their tricky words. So far Lennon, Noah and Chloe are on our special tricky word champion list - well done ! Why not have a go at your tricky words over the holiday! Or why not have a go at some phonics games on the phonicsplay.com website?
Phonics Games
It has been Families Week this week and lots of the mums, dads, nans, grandads, sisters and brothers have been coming to have lunch with us. It was lovely to see so many of you joining in - thank you.
Oniaka and her mummy queue up for lunch
Lexi, her brother Dalton and her daddy queue up for lunch
Pizza - yummy !
Lexi's family have lunch together
On Tuesday we had our Disco - I don't know who enjoyed it more - Mrs Ball and Miss Cannell or the children?
Dancing at the disco
The boys joined in !
Noah and Jordan had fun
Miss Cannell and Miss Ball !!
On Thursday we had our Summer Fayre. The rain held off thankfully and we raised an amazing £500 for Cystic Fibrosis with our Balloons. I wonder who will win?
The excitement is building .........
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, .......
Blast off ! Good luck everyone !
This week Diggory is going home with Mrs Ball and Miss Ball - have fun Diggory.
Well we have a week off now so see you all after the holiday.
Grasshopper Class