Space!

Hi ladybird parents.

We hope you have had a good week!

This week we have been learning about 'Space',- always a popular topic.

The children  have really enjoyed talking about space and have given some good ideas about what they think it would be like to go to space.

In our class this week we have learnt about the moon, the moon landings, we have even travelled to the moon and tried to imagine what it would be like to walk on the moon.

The children are beginning to understand about the word: gravity and how it helps us in everyday life.

We have made flying saucers, designed space pictures, made split pin aliens, designed chalk pictures of space and painted different planets.

 

The children have made space crafts and vehicles to ride on the moon and have enjoyed designing their own aliens.

 

We have talked lots this week about whether or not we believe in aliens and whether or not the children think they exist or not. The children have been really open minded and have had fun thinking about how many extra arms, legs and eyes an alien would have.

 

Here are a few of our other special moments this week: 

 

Chelsie made some moon rock shapes.

Jessica ordered numbers on the playground.

Denni-Mia made a 'space pattern'.

Jack made a space craft.

Riley made a space village.

Rubie found letters for her name.

Onur and Jayden worked as a team and made a space village.

Jake spent ages working on his space rocket.



This is what Zak thinks an alien might look like.

 

This week we have also be working hard on our sports day practise.

Today you will receive a letter telling you which team your child will be in on sports day.

This will either be Red, Blue, Green or Yellow team.

If your child has an item of clothing in that colour then they can wear it on the day if they would like. If not, ordinary PE kit is absolutely fine.

 

This week in Phonics we have been writing words that have a hidden sound in them. This includes ccvc and cvcc words. The children have worked hard and are now learning to say the word slowly so that they can hear all the sounds, ready to write them.

 

We hope that you have a good weekend and if you have 5 minutes spare have a go at imagining with your child that you are walking on the moon.

We tried it in our classroom and it was a lot of fun.

 

 

See you on Monday.

Circus week!

Roll up, roll up and welcome to the circus!
This week we have been learning about the circus and have really enjoyed remembering our trip to the Hippodrome. We have been building on our memories and have been learning about the history of the circus, what it used to look like, who used to go to the circus and what you may have seen at the circus.
We have had lots of different themed days and have learnt about clowns, performers, animals and the circus big top.
Here are a few of our favourite parts of the week:

 Amanda decorated a clown outfit using counters.

 

Harvey made a circus out of Lego- including animals.

 



Callum also made a model of a circus.

On Wednesday we also had a visit from a 'real' performer who works in a circus. He taught us lots of new skills. Here are a few pictures us pretending to be circus performers:

 Ladybird class- spinning plates

 Miss Brind had a go too.

 We got to chose an activity that we liked.

 Wow Jake, are u performing and hopping at the same time?

 Jessica is getting very good at walking on the stilts.

 

This week we have also been practising for sports day. On this day the children will carry out lots of races and Mummy's and Daddy's can come too.
The children have really been working hard, but the best thing about our practise has been the children's wonderful attitude to taking part, not worrying about winning, and encouraging each other to do their best.
We have also been looking at our Phonics and making sure that we can remember our Phase 2 and 3 sounds. Along with all of our tricky words in phase 2, 3 and 4.

We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and we will see you nice and early on Monday morning.

Ladybirds

xxxxxxx