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.