This week we learned all about what we can grow to eat.  We planted salad vegetables, such as peas, lettuce, cucumber and radish and put them in our greenhouse outside.  We remembered all the things a plant needs to grow and carefully planted them with soil and water.  We will eat them when they are grown which we know will be in the summer. 

We wondered how farmers, who have massive fields of crops, water them.  We learned about irrigation and made our own irrigation system of pipes and tubes in the classroom to see how water can travel a long way to its’ destination.  We then repeated the activity for real in the forest, using water. We set ourselves some challenges for next week; to transport water in our playground from one area to another.

We also learned all about clay, where it comes from and what it is used for. We watched a potter making a clay pot on a potter's wheel. We then all made our own clay pot, by rolling out the clay until it was a long sausage shape, then coiling it around and around to make our very own pot!

In English we wrote about what the man in the story 'The Enormous Turnip' needed to buy from the shop for his supplies.  We wrote sentences such as 'He got a big fork', or 'The got some black boots'. The children did really well to write with very little support from an adult.

In maths we explored numbers 14-20.  We looked at the pattern of the numbers and noticed when one had been taken away and what it was.  Can you tell which number has been stolen in the picture below?

In PSHE we talked about different emotions and named them.  We read “The Colour Monster” by Anna Llenas. We talked about the different emotions and how they made the colour monster feel. The children then drew their own colour monsters in appropriate colours to match their emotions such as green for calm and red for angry.

Our Monster Phonics this week, we have begun to read and write cvcc words, such as ‘lamp, sink and belt’ and sorted words that rhyme with these into their families, eg, ‘lamp, damp, ramp’.  Please continue to read with your child regularly.  It really makes a difference to their confidence and fluency. Please also continue to use spelling shed.  Again, this really helps the children to develop confidence and fluency with their segmenting and spelling skills.  

In PE we enjoyed ‘Spy School’ again, where we develop balances on the floor and on apparatus, using different parts of our bodies.  We also developed our crawling techniques to move under and around apparatus!

Please see the Forest Time section of our class page to see what we got up to this week.

Have a lovely weekend!