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'