We are continuing our Growing and Changing topic by learning about minibeasts this term. This week we asked the question ‘what do we know about spiders?’ We learned many facts about spiders such as how many legs they have, how many eyes, what they eat and how they spin a web.  We watched a spider spin a web on a time lapse video.  It was amazing!  We also learned why spiders don’t stick to their web, yet other insects do – before they eat them!  We did an experiment, where we made a sticky web from sticky tape and threw small toy insects onto it.  They stuck.  We then touched the web and found we also stuck. We then put a little baby oil on our hands and tried touching it again and we did not stick!  We found out that spiders have an oil on their legs which stops them sticking to their webs.

We are so lucky to have chicken eggs in an incubator, lent to us by Jacob Lowe's dad.  We are taking care of them and are told that they should hatch in 21 days!  We will mark the date on our calendar and keep an eye on how long away it is each day.

Our caterpillars are thriving. They are growing bigger by the day and we know they will soon make a chrysallis before they emerge as butterflies.

In English, we continued the story of Superworm. We made our own stories about Superworm hiding from his friends and wrote sentences such as, "He hid in a pot." or "He hid in the soil." 

In maths we explored the concept of doubling.  We each built a tower and then built another tower of equal amounts of cubes and found the total. We said the stem sentences, ‘double 4 is 8’ etc. We also noticed that the opposite of doubling is halving and could say what number we had doubled to make the total. Some of us noticed that whether we double an odd or an even number, the double is always even!

In Monster Phonics this week, we have been practising reading and writing ccvcc words and polysyllabic words (words with more than one syllable).  We also continued to write and use our 3 new tricky words – made, make came.  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. 

We had a fantastic sports day on Wednesday! Well done to all the children for taking part.

Have a lovely weekend!