Our Lookout Discovery Centre Trip

We had a great day yesterday visiting the Lookout Discovery Centre near Bracknell. We went in a number of different rooms, exploring the activities including building a house and moving a floating ball without touching it!

We also went on a very exciting mini-beast hunt where we found spiders, a harvestman and woodlice. The sun was shining so we ate our lunch outside and made the most of the weather.

Thank you to all of the adults who came along to help. Your support was much appreciated.

Minibeasts

Our topic this term is minibeasts and we have had so much fun going on minibeast hunts. We have looked at worms, snails, spiders, wasps and bees and next week we will be studying ladybirds.

Can you find any minibeasts in your garden or in the local environment?

Next week, we are working on doubling and halving the spots on a ladybird.

Welcome back to the summer term!

Welcome back Sunflower class.

We hope you had a lovely holiday and we really enjoyed hearing about your trips to Disneyland, the Eiffel Tower and your friends and family's houses.

This week we've been busy getting ready for the opening of our airport on Monday. We now have check-in, departures, a cafe and a plane. We will let you know how we get on.

Easter

 

 

This week, we're busy making lots of different Easter things including Easter egg nests and we've drawn daffodil pictures. Outside we've also been making nests using real materials, one of which can be seen in our spring tree below.

This week we've been focusing on why our mums are so special to us. It has been great to hear all of the children's lovely words they have to say about their mums.

For all of the mums, aunts and grandmas of the children in Sunflower class, Miss Pembroke and I hope you have a lovely, relaxing day this coming Sunday.

Happy Mother's Day!

 

Sunflower class, please let us know how you spoilt your mum on Mother's day.

 

 

I was a bit shocked to walk into class today as the children of Sunflower class seemed to have been transformed overnight! They had made their faces funny for Comic Relief and it was quite a sight and definitely made me smile.

 

The children have loved making number lines this week to practice their Maths, so here is the link to the crocodile number lines we made:

 

http://pdf.mrprintables.com/mrpnl02-a4.pdf 

 

 



Our first week back

It's been an exciting week this week working on our new book 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

We have planted magic beans inside and outside and we are seeing if they'll grow into a lovely beanstalk.

We also spoken about what would be at the top of our beanstalk. We've had Chocolate World, Dora the Explorer Land and a sweet shop.

I like the sound of a chocolate world! What would you and your family have at the top of their beanstalk?






We've also used our magic beans to learn about doubling and halving. Can you double these numbers?

3 =
6 =
2 =
4 =

Can you halve these?

6 =
4 =
8 =
2 =

Do you know what you would do if you had 5 cupcakes to halve?

Here is a clue as to what we'll be looking at next week:


 

Well this term certainly has flown by and in doing so, I apologise for the lack of blogs. We have been very busy looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Chinese New Year, including getting ready for our Chinese New Year assembly. Thank you to those of you that were able to make it. We are always so pleased at how many people come to support the children.

We also started a new role-play area this term, which is a sports shop. Many of our children have enjoyed golf and tennis when they've been free choosing using real equipment and the sports shop changing room to make sure they are wearing the appropriate clothing.

As some of our children expressed an interest in Space, we decided we would also look at this topic. We've planned and built rockets, we've had races to the moon and we've written about where we would like to go if we were astronauts.

Please feel free to pop in any time if you would like to have a look around the classroom with your child and they can show you what they've been learning.

Miss Pembroke and I hope you have a lovely holiday and look forward to hearing about what you get up to when you get back. Please feel free to write on the blog or email us pictures and/or messages about what you've been doing at sunflowerchatsworth@gmail.com.

Unfortunately we cannot reply to this address but we can print out what is sent and add it to your child's learning journey.

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.