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Our topic for this half term is Long, Long Ago… We started this week by reading our story The Highway Rat. Throughout the topic we will be exploring lots of methods of transport through history.

In Maths we are exploring measure and began this week looking at length exploring long and short. We have also been playing shop, using money to experience buying and selling items and sweet treats that the Highway Rat loves.

We are exploring Abstract art within our topic and used stacking cups to print Kandinsky inspired patterns using paint.

We enjoyed our first bus visit of the year, visiting the park to play, take turns and practice running, jumping and climbing safely.

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We have really been enjoying reading The Highway Rat, children have been filling in missing words, finishing sentences and retelling parts of the story.

In maths we have been exploring number adding, subtracting and finding how many? We have also been exploring money, using our play shop to buy items we like, finding or matching the correct coins. As part of our Shape, Space and Measure theme we have been exploring length.

In Art we looked at the artist Mark Rothko, exploring primary colours, mixing colours to make secondary colours and creating our own Colour Theory paintings.

During sensory baking we looked at creating healthy snacks, making fruit skewers and fruit smoothies. We did some PE outside then came back in to enjoy our healthy snacks!

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This week we have been enjoying the weather by doing number rhymes in the Wild Classroom and sharing play with our friends on the Sensory Playground.

Our story has been The Boy Who Sailed The World so we have enjoyed water play with boats - filling and pouring water. We have counted with boats and enjoyed small world play.

On Tuesday we voted for our class school council member, choosing a photo and posting it in the ballot box.

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We are continuing to read our story The Boy Who Sailed the World, the children have used the props with increased confidence and have begun to fill in missing words using symbols, words or props.

In maths we have been securing our knowledge of measuring using non-standard units using cubes to compare weight and length. We made lines of cubes longer or shorter than lines drawn on paper.

Our visit took us to the park, where we went on a number hunt using pinecones, numbers and Numicon to make quantities and answer maths questions.

On Thursday we celebrated 100 years of David Attenborough with 7 challenges inspired by the fantastic work with animals, plants and nature including literacy, maths, art and science activities. Each fabulous explorer got a special certificate for completing the challenges!

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This week we have enjoyed our new story How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth, it’s a very funny story! We’ve explored all the different ways you could get a Woolly Mammoth into the bath but our favourite things has been the bubbles!

In maths we enjoyed water to count a quantity of balls into a tray or to add two quantities together. Fishing for numbers in the water was lots of fun.

We have enjoyed lots of sensory activities within our lessons this week and have been doing soothe and groove.

In our art lesson we explored the work of Piet Mondrian and used Lego blocks to make prints using red, yellow and blue paint. In outdoor learning we explored a different type of abstract art, using tyres and vehicles to mix paint and make lots of different tracks.

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We have enjoyed completing our final week on school of Move in May, we have done lots of physical activities this month.

Our story of How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth has continued and we enjoyed sequencing the story using symbols props and spoken language.

To celebrate bee day we went on a bee hunt in the park, finding bees on the bushes and when we came back to school we followed instructions to make our own felt bee.

In maths we have enjoyed completing our measure topics, learning and exploring what tools we use to measure objects with. We made tall towers and measured how tall they were.