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June 2022

  • Bees!

    Published 24/06/22

    Hello! This week we are learning about bees! We have found out so many facts about them - we know now that lots of bees DON'T make honey! We know so many minibeast facts that we have been using our artistic talents to make pictures of beautiful settings for all our minibeasts, then completing observational drawings to add to them. Our phonics are so good now that we wrote FANTASTIC information in our Golden Books all by ourselves. What with our swimming and practising our class assemblies, we have been as busy as bees doing a waggle dance!

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  • Slugs and Snails!

    Published 17/06/22

    This week our minibeast focus is on snails and slugs! We have shared lots of information and stories about these interesting molluscs, and now we have learnt so much more. Ask us about how a snail can see and smell! How does it have babies? We have used the snail shells as inspiration for some spectacular spiral artwork, and then we read our focus story, Snail Trail, and used that to give us some great ideas for our own 'snail trail' journey, exploring positional language to direct our snails around obstacles. We looked at shapes in our maths this week, for example learning how to use small squares to make big squares. Also, we have used our best writing to make a card... but we can't tell you about that yet!

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  • Life in the Undergrowth!

    Published 10/06/22

    This week we welcome the summer and jump straight into our new topic looking at all creatures small and smaller - minibeasts! This meant going outside to see what we could find and recording our results with a tally chart - we found a lot of snails! We have impressed our teachers by what we already know, and now we are finding out lots more, beginning with caterpillars and butterflies. Did you know that caterpillars only have six 'true' legs? Our study of The Very Hungry Caterpillar has prompted some great discussions about healthy food, and now we are looking at butterflies really carefully to learn about symmetry. We are reading and hunting for lots of words with four sounds in phonics, and learning subtraction facts in our maths.  

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June 2022