Spring 2 Term 

Please find below pictures of what Bumblebee class have been up to this half term.

Butterflies Class 

This half term, butterflies have been learning all things Spring!  

First and foremost, all the adults of butterflies would like to say how proud they are of each individual butterfly on how wonderful they are and the individual progress that they have made so far this year.  

At the beginning of this term, we ventured out on learning walks around the school grounds to experience what we could see, smell, hear and touch as Spring quickly sprung upon us! We thoroughly enjoyed walking through the wooded areas and comparing what we experienced on our autumnal walk last term. Whilst on our walks we enjoyed counting the flowers we could see, listening to the birds and creating finger paintings of beautiful blossom trees.  

We are amazing at independently completing our tray tasks and working with an adult to work on our activities throughout the day.  We also love to put on our wellies and explore outside at lunchtime.  

In maths, we have collectively been working on number recognition, counting, number bonds and spatial awareness. We have been using lots of lovely natural resources to help us with our learning from flowers, baby animal pictures, sticks, seeds and butterflies. We love the mathematicians that we are becoming! 

In our English we have loved listening to and exploring our spring books, stories and songs! We have also loved mark making in the sand, paint and mud using farm animals to create lots of patterns and muddy footprints! Within our Little Wandle Phonics learning this week, our sound is K for Kite so we have been exploring all things with the K sound.  

In our provision for discovering, we have loved creating and constructing different forms of sandcastle to thoroughly enjoy squishing them quickly after! We love playing in the water, using different toys to explore, nets to fish, squirters to spray lots of water (this is our favourite, especially when we get the adults wet!) Building and exploring the marble runs that we make. We are very good at shadow matching and can match lots of lovely spring pictures from welly boots to daffodils.  
 
We have absolutely loved learning all things Spring and are extremely excited to see what Summer term has in store for us! 

Spring 1 Term

At the start of this term we looked at all things cold…brrrr! We investigated Jack Frost and what it means for something to be frozen…can you remember what ice is made of? What does ice turn back into when it is melted?

We thought about what we would need to warm us up after a day out in the cold and we even wrote down a list!

We then came into school one day and had a note left by Jack Frost and we wrote all about it!

For the last few weeks, we have been enjoying learning all about some of our favourite things … SUPER HEROES! We had a special visit from a naughty character who left us the lovely story of ‘There is a Super Hero in your book’ by Tom Fletcher. We have been thinking about all the qualities a super hero has. We think that there may be some super heroes hiding in our school or at home?

We have been writing lists of our favourite superheroes with all of our Phonetic sounds that we know. This week we have written about a power we would like to have too.

For mental health week next week, we have really focused on how we feel about certain things and the impact that our decisions/choices have on the people around us. We have been reminding ourselves that it is just as important to be kind to ourselves, as it is to be kind to others!

In Maths, we have all been trying really hard with our number formation. We have also been continuing to explore the composition of numbers and have started to investigate doubling and comparing quantities. We are slowly introducing the concept of number bonds to 5 hoping to move onto number bonds of 10 next term!

We have enjoyed making our own super heroes using a variety of resources, such as masks and lolly stick heroes. We even had to help save some superheroes using our fine motor skills who were tied up by the scribbler!

We love the outdoor area and have been using our thinking caps to create lots of different things, we love to build ramps and bridges for getting across lava or water and even rollercoasters for cars!

Today we concluded our amazing theme of Superheroes and term, by dressing up as our favourite superheroes! We had a range of outfits from Hulk Smash to Lady Bird! We have taken lots of pictures which will be flying home soon! ????
We cannot wait to see what Spring 2 has in store for us! Have a lovely half-term everyone.