This week we were introduced to two new texts linked to our topic “Into the Wild”: Where the Wild Things Are and The Great Kapok Tree.

For Where the Wild Things Are, we explored the story by learning about and describing the different monsters. We then created our own monsters using playdough, using communication boards to choose the colours we needed. The results were fantastic! Later, we used our monsters to help retell the story in the tuff tray, supported by sensory materials and sound buttons. It was a wonderfully engaging and fun experience.

On Friday, we were introduced to The Great Kapok Tree. We used sound buttons to help us follow the story and begin to understand the characters and setting. We’re excited to continue exploring this text next week.

We explored numbers beyond 10 by creating different representations using concrete apparatus such as Numicon and Base Ten. Matching quantities to numerals helped us deepen our understanding of number value and structure. Everyone showed fantastic enthusiasm and made wonderful progress throughout the week.

After choosing a specific animal, we created our very own jungle in a jar. We carefully added soil and grass seeds to a plastic jar, placed our chosen animal inside, and then watered the seeds. Now we’re excited to watch our mini jungles grow around the animals over the next few weeks.

We also completed a sorting activity using a Venn diagram, sorting animals that live in the jungle from those that do not. Green Class showed fantastic sorting skills and great understanding of animal habitats.

On Tuesday, our outdoor Maths session took us on a treasure‑style hunt. Each child was given a number and had to find, collect, and count the matching number of gold coins hidden inside envelopes. This activity brought lots of excitement and plenty of smiles.

We also had great fun exploring the bikes on Thursday, building confidence, coordination, and independence as we rode around the outdoor area.

The children also enjoyed a “walk the plank” balancing game, pretending to be brave pirates crossing the sea, which encouraged lots of laughter and imaginative play.

They also made their own pirate telescopes using cardboard tubes, which they used to search for hidden treasure around the classroom.

To finish our lesson, we created beautiful African sunset artwork, using Savannah animal silhouettes to show the striking shapes of wildlife against the warm evening sky.

We played Sleeping Lions to practise communication and turn‑taking. The children also sequenced the story, and did some lovely mark‑making with the lion toys, using Colourful Semantics to support their sentences.

We worked together, taking turns to add the ingredients and mix everything using our turn‑taking and communication cards.

After our biscuits were cooked and cooled, we used our fine motor skills to carefully decorate them with icing pens to make them look just like giraffes. The children did a fantastic job and the biscuits looked amazing!

This week we have continued exploring how to compare quantities and order numbers. The children have been busy with a range of activities to build their confidence and understanding. Some of us have been ordering Numicon shapes, some have been ordering written numbers, and others have been using Numicon to compare quantities while being introduced to the symbols for greater than, less than and equals to.

This week, as part of our Into the Wild topic, we explored the stories “The Rainbow Fish” and “Sharing a Shell.” The children enjoyed a sensory retelling of The Rainbow Fish, created their own sparkling fish using sequins, and practised building and writing sentences through Colourful Semantics before sequencing the events of the story. When reading Sharing a Shell, the children made the characters out of play dough and thought carefully about who they would like to share a shell with, choosing from family, friends, or pets. Some children even extended their ideas by using because to explain their choices, showing lovely progress in their sentence development.

This week we continued our biscuit theme by making fish‑shaped biscuits to link with our topic and The Rainbow Fish. The children used communication cards to take turns mixing the ingredients, supporting their interaction and teamwork. Once the biscuits had baked and cooled, the children decorated their fish with icing and hundreds and thousands, just like the shimmering Rainbow Fish.

This week we have been reading The Rainbow Bear as part of our Into the Wild topic, focusing on the Arctic habitat. We learned that the polar bear wished to be rainbow‑coloured because he felt unnoticed as a white bear, but once his wish came true he quickly realised that being rainbow‑bright wasn’t as wonderful as he imagined. To support our learning, we explored a sensory story with icy‑cold water, created woolly polar‑bear collages, made our own snow globes, and experimented with painting and mark‑making using coloured ice. We also enjoyed making our own rainbow bears by painting a bear template inside a zippy wallet, bringing the story to life through hands‑on, creative experiences. We have also thought about how the bear felt when he was taken away from his Arctic home and taken to the zoo, as well as rescuing the animals from the ice.

On Tuesday we celebrated St Patrick’s Day in Green Class. We listened to the story of St Patrick, enjoyed Irish music, and explored the celebration through green gloop and coins. We counted and printed shamrocks, made shamrocks out of playdough, and decorated and created our own St Patrick’s Day cards.

This week, the children have been fully immersed in the Easter Story through a range of creative and hands‑on activities. They produced beautiful crucifix sunset pictures inspired by Impressionist art, experimenting with colour blending and expressive brushstrokes to create striking silhouettes.

We also enjoyed making our own Easter cards, taking care with both the artwork and the thoughtful messages written inside.

To make phonics even more exciting, some of our lessons moved outdoors. The children took part in a phonics Easter egg hunt, matching sounds to hidden eggs and showing fantastic teamwork and enthusiasm.

It’s been a wonderful week of creativity, learning, and springtime fun.

This week we concluded our topic Into the Wild with an exciting outdoor minibeast hunt. The children explored the school grounds with great enthusiasm and discovered all sorts of tiny creatures, including worms, woodlice and even a centipede. They showed brilliant curiosity as they observed each minibeast in its natural habitat.

Back in the classroom, we continued our learning by creating symmetrical bugs using paint and printing techniques. The children loved experimenting with colour and pattern, and their finished artwork looks fantastic.

It’s been a wonderful way to round off our topic, combining hands‑on exploration with creative expression.