Happy Birthday Sam!

Hello Ladybirds, we hope that you are all ok and have had a good week.
In Ladybird class this week we have been thinking about Birthdays.
Today is Sam's 5th Birthday. Sam is our class puppet and all week we have kept it secret that we will be holding a party for him today. On Tuesday we practised lots of party games that we can play. We have written invitations to each other and have even made him lots of birthday cards. We have been practising singing 'Happy Birthday' but have had to keep it secret so he doesn't hear us. The children have also practised making birthday cakes and put lots of candles in the cake too.
This afternoon we will surprise Sam, sing Happy Birthday, play party games and eat party food as a treat too. Sam is a very lucky puppet.

This week we have also been thinking about Easter. We have made lots of pictures for our Easter display and have designed a very special bunny basket that we will be bringing home next week (with a few surprises in).

Our 3D shape display has been finished so we can carry on naming all of the 3D shapes that we were naming last week. Here is a picture of the display in our classroom:

 

This week in Phonics we have revisited some of our Phase 3 sounds. We are working really hard at thinking of words with these sounds in and then writing them down on our whiteboards. So far we have found words with the sounds igh, ow and ar.

We can also write Phase 2 tricky words and recognise most of the Phase 3 tricky words.

 

In Numeracy this week we have been solving lots of number problems. This has been good for us when we have been thinking about Sam's party this afternoon.

We have solved problems such as:

If Miss Brind, Mrs Whittaker and Miss Wright all have a plate at the party, how many plates will we need?

The children are all getting very good at solving these problems so know that there should be 3 plates.

We can then use our knowledge of adding by asking:

How many plates would we need if Mrs Freeman came to the party as well?

 

So 3+1=4

 

Try using these word problems at home when laying the table for dinner or sharing out snacks at home. See if your child can work out the problem for 'taking away' too.

 

Here are a few of the other things that we have been doing this week:

 

Denni cut out and made a birthday cake for

Sam's birthday. 

 Jessica found the sounds to make the word 'fox'

in the water tray.

Callum found the sounds to make the word 'mummy'

in the water tray. 

 Our Sunflower seed has started to grow into a

small plant. All we need is some more sun

to make it grow big and strong.

Zak, Jake, Jayden and Onur enjoyed

having a tea party in practise for our birthday party.

 

Haven't we been busy?

 

Don't forget that it is Science week next week and your competition entries need to be in on Monday 25th March.

Just a reminder, the competition is to design an invention for you to use at home or for your child's class teacher to use to make life a little easier.

Also you are invited to come into school on Wednesday morning to have a look at what your child has been doing in Science week, so when you come in in the morning you are welcome to stay and have a look at the experiments that your child has been doing and have a look at our science week pictures.

 

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday morning.

 

Ladybird class

Growing (Babies up to 1)

Greetings Ladybird parents!
We hope that you are all well and enjoying a little bit of the sun that we have been having. It definitely makes a change from all that snow.

In Numeracy this week we have been learning all about shapes, the children have remembered lots of information about the flat shapes (2D) and how many sides that they all have. This week we have been learning some of the names of the solid shapes (3D) shapes and learning information about them: cube, cuboid, cone, cylinder, sphere, prism.
The children are eager to find these shapes about the classroom. See which shapes you have in your house. If you have your camera handy bring a picture into class and we can put it up on our shape display.

In Phonics this week we have been revisiting the sounds in Phase 3. We have already looked at ai, oi, oa, ow and revisited some of the tricky words too. The children are eager to write these sounds and find words that they can use in their writing with these sounds in.

In PE we have been learning about balancing and have used lots of new apparatus to show off our skills.
Here we are climbing sensibly onto the apparatus, balancing and in some cases jumping from them too:

As we are learning about babies, growing and ourselves, we had another visit this week from baby Archie to find out how much he has grown. Did you know he is now 6 months old?
The children asked Miss Young lots of questions about what Archie eats now and what kinds of things he can do.

Here are a few of the other things we have been doing this week in Ladybird class:

Harvey created a run for the marbles to run down.

 Gabrielle drew a picture of all her family.

 Lenny ordered numbers 1-30 on the washing line.

 

The children labelled Mrs Whittaker's body parts with sticky labels.

 

Thank You very much for everybody's kind donations towards Red Nose Day today. The children look fab.

Here they are in their Wacky clothes:

 

 

 

 

Can I just thank you very much for all those Mummy's that came to our special mother's day story time and hope you had a lovely day last Sunday.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to another busy week next week.

 

Ladybird class

 

 

Growing- Flowers

Welcome back Ladybird Mums and Dads.
I hope you had a restful week off, the children have certainly been busy over the holidays and told us what they have been doing.
It seems to have been another busy week in Ladybird class this week too.
The children are certainly coming along with their phonics and have begun writing phase 2 tricky words this week. The children are becoming more confident in reading the phase 3 tricky words too.

In Numeracy this week we have started to count in 5's. Using your fingers and toes, see if the children can show you how they count in 5's.
The children have also been learning about capacity this week and have been using the language of 'Full' 'Half Full' and 'Empty'.
Jake told the class is was 'when your tummy was full at lunch time because you have eaten too much food'
Riley told the class 'your tummy is empty when you're hungry'

On our creative table this week we have had observational drawing, painting flowers, using our finger tips to paint flowers, water colour flowers, tissue paper flowers and play dough flowers.
The children are really working hard at looking at the flowers on the table and copying the colours to make their flowers similar.

In PE this week the children have been practising their balancing. The children used these skills to go onto the apparatus, balance and then jump from the apparatus onto the landing zones.

Here are a few of the other things we have been up to this week:

Victoria made 'ear' using the sound tiles.

Harvey made a flower using the Pattern shapes

Denni-Mia made a flower from the play dough

Callum and Zak both enjoyed creating different patterns using the pattern shapes.

I wonder which pattern they might chose next time?

Please can I remind you that 'Parent's evening' is next Tuesday 5th March and I still have available slots for you to come and have a chat with me about your child's progress.

See you on Monday morning. Have a wonderful weekend.

Ladybird class