This week

This week, we have started our rehearsals for the Christmas play 'Fishing for Stars'. It's going to be a lot of fun so we hope you can come and join us on either 9th December or the 10th December.

Our book this week was 'You'll soon grow into them Titch'. We had a great time acting out the story and changing the names of the characters e.g. You'll soon grow into them, Miss Hurley.



We've also been speaking about what we want to be when we grow up. We learnt that Miss Pembroke wanted to look after elephants at London zoo when she was a child. Here were some of Sunflower class's ideas:

What do you want to be?

Remembrance day

It was great to make poppies to mark the 100th anniversary of WW1. Have a look at what some of us made at school.

This week

This week, we've had a great time making firework pictures and talking about bonfire night. Here are some of them below:

 

Did any of you go to a bonfire night? What did you see?

We've also been really interested in superheroes after Mr Bromfield made Sunflower class a fantastic Spiderman. We've been doing lots of creative activities (making masks, wristbands, finger puppets) and also lots of writing about our favourite superheroes.

 

This week we have learnt the letters S, A, T, and P. Can you find some items around your home that start with these letters? Tomorrow you will receive your own 'sound bag' with these letters in, so you can practice them.

Thank you for sharing the pictures below of a Diwali celebration.

Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating today!

We have had a lovely time celebrating it in class. We have made some divas and Rangoli patterns. Have a look at our work below.

 

Let us know if you make anything at home.

A fantastic trip to the Natural History Museum

We have had some photos of a recent trip to the Natural History Museum shared with us by one of our Sunflowers.

 

'I see dinosaurs, some big real dinosaurs and some pretend ones. There were baby ones and grown-up ones'

We have been reading the book 'Oliver's Milkshake' this week. We have done so much work on this book. We talked about different foods and whether they are healthy or not. We have used our sense of taste to try different foods and see if they are salty, sweet, sour or bitter.

We also wrote recipes for milkshakes and then made them later in the week. Here is our recipe if you would like to try it at home.

Ingredients:

Milk
Fruit

Equipment:

Blender
Knife
Cups

Instructions:

1. Chop the fruit into small pieces.
2. Put 1 cup of fruit into the blender.
3. Measure 1 cup of milk.
4. Put the milk into the blender.
5. Mix.
6. Taste your lovely milkshake.

Enjoy!

Opening of our train station

A big thank you to Mr Wright who came and opened our train station today. We managed it just before the downpour and I'm really looking forward to using it on Monday.

This week it's poetry week!

Here's one of my favourite poems, what's yours?

Bunnies

Every little bunny
Has a habit that is funny.

It doesn't matter where he goes
He always wrinkles up his nose.

This week we have been talking about our families and showing photos of our family members. We have read the story 'So much' to fit in with this. We've also been looking at 2D and 3D shapes, learning their names and their properties. Can you say what these shapes are below?

Welcome to Sunflower Class

I want to say a great big welcome to our new children in Sunflower class. It's their first day today and we've got so many fun things planned.

Miss Pembroke and I will use this blog to keep you updated on what we get up to throughout the year in class. Please feel free to write us a comment or attach any work you do at home, so that we can share it with the class.

This week we have been looking at the different parts of a plant, labelling pictures and doing observational drawings. We have also planted sunflower seeds and we will be writing diaries showing what happens to them over the next few weeks.

Can you label the plant below?

Welcome back Sunflower class.

I hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday.

Tomorrow we are going to be sharing what we did during the holidays. Have a think about which part you would like to share with the class.

We're also starting a new topic called 'Our World'

What would you like to find out about our world? 

I would like to find out how much of the Earth is water. 

Hello Sunflower class,

Well, what an exciting week! We received a letter from the wolf telling us where he has been in school. Can you believe he has been in our classroom? Did you see him? We have written letters, drawn maps and made traps to try and get him, no luck yet but maybe next week.

We've also been learning about halving which we practised when we made our sandwiches. Can you find half of these numbers?

4, 6, 8, 10, 12.

We're beginning to look at doubles. Can you double these numbers?

3, 6, 9, 10.

Next week, we're moving onto a different story. Can you guess what it is from the clue below?

Can you read these tricky words? Can you put them into a sentence?

 

the        to        no      go        he        she

 

Look at my example below to help you.

the

I went to the zoo.

Can you bring me in some writing to show me you can use tricky words?

We have a new story in Sunflower class. We are now reading The Three Little Pigs. Mademoiselle Stella read the story to us in Spanish and we also read it in Polish with some of the children in Sunflower class translating for us.

We've also built houses and then seen how easy it is to 'huff and puff' and blow them down. Can you remember which type of house was blown down easily? Which was the strongest?

Thank you to Habib and Hadya for sharing their gingerbread men that they made at home. They were delicious! Here are some pictures of what we have been doing in class recently.

Thanks to Jess, who is a local Vet, for popping in to talk to us about what she does and how she helps animals. We can use what we learnt in our own vets.

This is a new addition to our outside area - a mud kitchen! We've been baking all sorts out there: Mud pies, stewed mud and mud soup to name but a few.

 Here we are making our gingerbread men.

We were also extremely lucky to have had some other visitors in Sunflower class - Emily's mum and the family's 2 day old guinea pigs. Emily's mum told us about how she and her family look after them and we got to ask our own questions as well. Thank you very much Rachel for bringing them in for us.

The Gingerbread Man

We have started a new book this week - The Gingerbread Man. We have acted out the story, drawn his route and used the beebots to follow the path he took. From tomorrow, we are going to make gingerbread men using the recipe below.

Gingerbread Man Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients       

1 cup soft butter                                                 3 teaspoons of ginger

1 cup brown sugar                                    2 teaspoons baking powder

1 egg                                                           raisins

3 cups flour

 

 

What to do

1.      Turn oven on to 200⁰C.

 

2.    Put butter, sugar and egg into bowl and stir until it is all mixed together. 

 

3.    Sieve the flour, baking powder and ginger into the bowl.  Mix it altogether. 

 

4.    Use your hands to make a big ball of dough.

 

5.     Share the dough.

 

6.    Use a rolling pin to roll the dough flat.

 

7.     Use a gingerbread man cutter to make a ginger bread man.

 

8.     Use the raisins to make eyes, nose, mouth and buttons.

 

9.    Put your gingerbread man onto the baking tray and very carefully put the tray into the oven.  Bake in the oven for 7-8 minutes.

 

10.  Take out of the oven and put on a wire rack to cool. 

 

Welcome back Sunflower class!

Welcome back to all of you in Sunflower class. I hope you had a nice Christmas.

This term, we are looking at traditional tales, Chinese New Year and our role-play area is turning into a Vets, which we are very excited about.