We've had another jolly week learning about pirates and the sea. This week we had another message in a bottle from Captain Jack Black. Mrs Ball went to the beach to get it and guess what? She came back with some real treasure for us! She also came back with a pirate hat, armbands and a cornetto !! I don't think we'll send her down there any more - she has too much fun !
I think Mrs Ball makes a good pirate !
Mrs Young reads the message and ....
.......finds our treasure !
Anyway we had to share our treasure out equally between our pirate teddies. We had to make sure they had exactly the same amount each or it wouldn't be fair. We have been sharing different amounts all week and on Thursday we even shared a playdough cake !
Jessica-May shares her pirate coins
Chase shares his treasure
Jona shares her treasure
We have been thinking about writing stories this week and we decided we should write our own pirate story. We took our time and thought of a really exciting beginning, middle and end for our story. Lots of the children have then been writing their own exciting stories on the writing table - well done !
We have been thinking about floating and sinking too and we all made our own rafts - we then tested them out in the water. Some of them floated better than others !
Taloola used her own ideas
All busy raft building
Oniaka made a fabulous raft !
Courtney and Chloe have a raft race
On Tuesday we had our Transition Day where we all found out what class we would be in in September in Year 1. The new classes are:
Beetles - Mrs Young (am) and Mrs Goddard (pm)
Spiders - Mrs Balls
Ladybirds - Mrs Doggett (formerly Miss Brind!)
Caterpillars - Miss Smith
All the children are with some of their friends and we all had a lovely time getting to know each other and doing lots of fun activities.
We have also made some great pirate faces using paper plates.
Sophie and her pirate
Jamie-Lea and her pirate
On Friday we went to the Summer Extravaganza at the Brittannia Pier - it was very exciting with lots of singing and dancing and we even got to go on a coach. Some of our children from Years 1 and 2 were in the show - how brave !
This week Diggory is going home with Courtney because she has made such great progress with her phonics. Well done Courtney!
That's all for now.
Grasshopper Class