Doves

Welcome Back!

We hope you have had a great Easter break!

We are happy to be back in school ready to start the Summer term!

Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on our new topic “The Farm” aided by our very own Key Text “Dear Farm” a sensory story created By Liss in Owls.

Each week we will use a multi-sensory approach to explore the farm animals from the story through a range of activities and sessions. During Child Led Play the children will be able to access and explore farm related resources throughout class provision.

We look forward to another great fun filled term and some good weather!

Keri and the Doves Class team.

The eggs have arrived!

Incredible Eggs Information Guide

Egg-Educational-Resource.pdf

Monday 12th: 7 eggs have arrived safely and are now set up ready in Owls Class.

Tuesday 13th: No change yet!

Wednesday 14th: 2 off the eggs have cracks in them, We have set up ready for the chicks. Won't be long now!

Thursday 15th: EGGxciting news, We have come in today to see 2 healthy chicks have hatched! Throughout the day we have had another 2 eggs hatch, that makes 4 chicks in total! !

Friday 16th: We now have 5 chicks! They are all doing well and have settled in to their temporary home.

Monday 19th May: We now have 6 healthy chicks all very happy in their new environment.

Tuesday 20th May: We had the chicks in class all afternoon, they are very friendly........ and noisy!

Wednesday 21st May: 6 lovely chicks........We now just have to name them!

Thursday 22nd May: All classes have voted for what they wanted to call the chicks and here are the results!

Friday 23rd May: Our last day with the chick before they go off to live on Julia's farm. They will be back to visit soon!

A lovely day for a walk around our local community. We had lots of fun playing I Spy, looking out for familiar objects in our environment.

We have had a very busy term even though its only been 4 weeks! Have a look at all the fun we have had!

Welcome Back!

We hope you have had a great half term!

We are very happy to be back in school ready to start a new term and the beginning of Spring.

Over the coming weeks we will be focusing on our new topic “The Zoo” aided by our Key Text “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell.

Each week we will use a multi-sensory approach to explore the animals from the story through a range of activities and child led play within our continuous provision.

Alongside our main topic this term we will be engaging in sessions to explore upcoming celebrations and events. Through a multi-sensory approach, we will explore and develop our understanding of these occasions through new experiences, fun and play. We will have the opportunity to engage in sessions and activities around the following key dates:

Pancake Day – Tuesday 4^th March
World Book Day - Thursday 6^th March
Science Week – Monday 10^th to Friday 14^th March
Mothering Sunday – Sunday 30^thMarch
Easter – Sunday 20^th April.

Over the last 2 weeks of term we will be focusing on The Easter Story through a cross-curricular approach to create a more holistic and interconnected learning experience.

We look forward to another great fun filled term!

Keri and the Doves Class team.

Please see below for this terms Topic Map and Key Text for this term.

Our Key Text this term is Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell.

Exploring our key text Dear Zoo.

I wrote to the Zoo to send me a pet, they sent me a ............ Elephant! He was too big, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a ............Giraffe! He was too tall, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a ........... Lion! He was too fierce, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a ......... Camel! He was too grumpy, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a .......... Snake! He was too scary, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a .......... monkey! He was too cheeky, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a .......... Frog! He was too jumpy, I sent him back!

So, they sent me a .......... Puppy! He was too perfect, I kept him!

Our beautiful Dear Zoo display full of our art work.

We loved exploring Dear Zoo this term.

World Book Day!

A special Visitor!

Happy New Year!

January 2025

We hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas break. We are excited to be back in school for the start of a new term (Spring Term 1) in Doves Class. This term we will be focusing on our new topic “People Who Help Us”, over the coming weeks we will be exploring and celebrating a variety of people and professionals who help us. We will have a dedicated role play area within the classroom each week and engage in a range of activities to help us to explore different professions and ways they help us through a multisensory approach.

Our Key text book for this term is “Postman Bear” by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler which we will explore as a sensory story. We will also look at other books and stories related to our weekly chosen “People Who Help us”.

We look forward to another great term filled with an abundance of learning through fun, new adventures and play! We hope you are enjoying our learning journey so far and all the things we have been getting up to!

Keri and the Doves Class team.

Please see below for this terms Topic Map, Key Text and our updated Team Members page to meet our newest member of staff; Emma our Lunchtime Supervisor.

Our Key Text: Postman Bear by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Postman Bear

People Who Help Us

Our families.

Emergency Services

Doctors and Nurses

Exploring shapes

Multi Cultural Week

Mexico

Sweden

Morocco

Italy

China

We love P.E

Music with Alison

Welcome back!

November 2024

We hope you all had a lovely half term and are ready for Autumn term 2.

Our topic this term is Colour and our key text is "Wow said the Owl". We will begin this term exploring Bonfire Night and Remembrance Day which will give us lots of opportunities to explore different colours

through a variety of activities, sensory exploration and experiences.

Following on from this we will focus on exploring all the different colours in our key text "Wow said the Owl" and engage in a variety of activities using a multisensory approach to explore colour.

To finish the term, we will focus on the Nativity story in preparation for our KS1 Nativity performance. Doves class will be the stars of the show as all the children will be Angels. We are keeping further details of our class performance under wraps to keep it a surprise. More details regarding date and time will be sent out shortly.

Keri and the Doves Class Team

Key text: Wow said the Owl

Remembrance Day: Creating red poppy biscuits.

Our World in Colour.

Green

Blue

White

Red

All the colours of the rainbow

The many colours of Christmas

Welcome to Doves Class

September 2024

We are very excited to start our journey together in Doves Class and hope you will explore our class page and join us on our many learning adventures.

This term our topic is My Busy Body, and our key text is We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

We are looking forward to an exciting term ahead settling into our new class, becoming familiar with new routines and experiencing a variety of fun and engaging learning opportunities through play and sensory experiences.

Please check our class page for regular updates and explore the links to learn more.

Keri and the Doves Class Team