Planting flowers in the butterfly house

This week we planted some cosmos plants inside the butterfly house as well as pansies outside the house as we ensure we have some food for the butterflies that will emerge from their chrysalis .

The little kitten by Sophie

Listen to Sophie reading her story about a little black kitten. Well done Sophie for reading with expression.

Day and Night by Jamie

Listen to Jamie reading this explanation of day and night. Well done Jamie

The moon

 Over the past week we have been reading books about the moon and watching some utube clips of mans first walk on the moon. As we found out information we organised it by using a class Y chart. Before we wrote an information report about the moon we made a web sharing all the facts we knew about the moon. We each wrote an information report and drew our own little Y charts. Look out for some of us reading our information reports on the blog in the near future.

Miss Linehan from room 2 showed us how to make these cool moons so we each made one.

On Friday when Sophie's Nana and Grandad came to pick her up at the end of the day we invited them into our classroom and asked them where they were when Neil Armstrong took that first step on the moon. Thank you for sharing your experience of this historic moment with us. 

The apple tree by Hyder

Listen to Hyder reading his story. Well done Hyder

Fun building with blocks

The children in room one enjoy the opportunities they have to build with blocks. Below are some of their latest creations.

Reading group

Another reading group  and another fun activity with toys.

The web

As we explore the topic of the sun, earth and moon we recalled all the facts we could remember about the sun. To do this we sat in a circle and rolled a ball of wool to each other recalling a fact before we rolled it. It was a lot of fun, we remembered a lot of facts and made a rather impressive web.

Reading group activity

Together these boys completed this reading activity. They were very proud of themselves. Well done boys.

The big bad wolf by Lily

Listen to Lily read her description of the big bad wolf. Well done Lily.

A naughty cat by Amir

Listen to Amir reading the story he wrote about a naughty cat. Well done Amir

Day and night by Daniel

Listen to Daniel read his explanation of day and night. Well done Daniel.

The crab by Hamza

We have learning to write a narrative. Listen to Hamza read the narrative he wrote about a man who went to the beach.

Day and night by Sophie

We have been exploring the difference between day and night,  Listen to Sophie read her explanation. Well done Sophie

The crab by Daehyun

Daehyun wrote this interesting narrative. Find out what the crab did to the man because he kept sleeping when the crab spoke to him. 

The naughty kitten by Zavier

Listen to Zavier reading his story about a naughty kitten that gets tangled up in a ball of yarn. Well done Zavier. 

Printing

This term in art we are learning how to make prints. This week we started with making handprints that we made into fish. We also cut up some fruit and used these to make interesting prints. We will post some of our work later in the week.

The earth by Benji

Listen to Benji reading his explanation. 

The big bad wolf by Anna

Last term Anna enjoyed making his big bad wolf, listen to her reading her description of the wolf. 

The juicy apple by Leo

Leo enjoys writing narratives. Why do you think Grandma was angry?

The apple tree by Maziyah

Listen to Maziyah reading his story. Well done Maziyah

George the giant by Thomas

Last term, Thomas enjoyed painting a picture of George a kind giant. Listen to him reading his story about George.

The apple tree by Jamie

Listen to Jamie read his story about a little girl who climbed an apple tree. What happened to her?

Butterflies in the butterfly house

With the butterfly house open all week we were excited on Friday to find not 1 butterfly in the house but 5. Each of them were busy laying eggs and we were delighted. Before long we will have a lot of caterpillars to watch grow. Yippee - the life cycle of the butterfly has begun.

We are planning to tidy up the butterfly house in the week ahead - pulling out the old cosmos plants and putting some more soil in before we plant some more cosmos for the butterflies to feed on in the weeks to come. We are also looking to plant some new swan plants so the caterpillars will have plenty to eat!!

The little dog by Thomas

Listen to Thomas read his interesting story about a dog that lost his bone.