Kingfishers Class

Our Terrific Treasure Map!

After reading the book 'Yo Ho Ho! A Pirating we will Go!' we created our own treasure maps. The children used a range of tools to create their maps including pencils, scissors and glue!  

Pirates love Underpants! 

After reading the story 'Pirates love Underpants' we headed to the forest school area to search for pants with numbers on! We found the pants then practised our number formation. 

WARNING BEWARE OF PIRATES! 

Oh no! On Monday night, Kingfisher class was taken over by pirates.

They've change our role-play area into a pirate ship, left their clothes and treasure in class and put a warning sign on our classroom door!

AHOY!

Welcome back! 

We hope you enjoyed your half term break. We are very excited about our pirate topic this term and can't wait to have lots of fun and adventures with the children. 

Check out what we will be getting up to this term on our Topic Map below and see the key texts we will be exploring this term above. 

Thanks,

Liss and Kingfisher team

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My Writing 

This week we read the story 'Dogger'. After the child created their own story about loosing their favourite toy!

In the afternoon the children shared them with the rest of the class in circle time.

Bird Feeders

In forest school we made bird feeders. The children scooped out the flesh of an orange, carefully pushed two skewers in, tied string around them and filled the orange with bird seeds. 

My Thinking 

The children this week have been working hard on developing either their  understanding of numbers, patterns, sequences, cause and effect or operating different toys/equipment. 

The photos in the slide show below show some of the children working hard to make collections that are the same as another, using objects, pictures and numerals. Later on in the week they went on to explore sequences and focused on first and last. The children positioned themselves and objects in a line following the instructions of first, next and last and were also able to identify who/what was first or last in the sequence. 

Welcome back! 

I hope you all had an amazing Easter holidays and enjoyed lots of chocolate eggs. It is lovely to have the children back in class and we are all really looking forward to the term! 

With the weather getting dryer and warmer we will be spending as much time outside in our courtyard a possible. Our topic this term is toys, please see all our key text we will be using above and check out our Class Topic map below. 

Thanks, 

Liss and Kingfisher team

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My Thinking 

For our My Thinking work this week we are exploring length and weight. Today we read the story 'Ants Rule. The long and short of it'. After, we ordered different bugs buy length and stated which one was the shortest and which one was longest from a choice of three. We then went outside for forest school and ordered different natural materials by length. 

Geography Field trip to ASDA

Our topic this term in geography is 'Our Local Area'. In class we have been looking at maps of Hereford and labelling them with key symbols. Last week we went of a field trip to ASDA. The children had a list of things to spot on their walk. We spotted houses, cars, street lamps, traffic lights and a bridge. In class this week the children drew the route they walked on a map and labelled the map with the key places we passed on our journey. 

Police visit! 

What an amazing way to start our 'Real Heroes' topic! Two police officers visited us at the end of the day today. The children got to go in the police car and try on the police coats! 

Science 

In science this term we are learning about plants and what they need to grow. Some of us engaged in a plant and soil sensory experience and others began our class investigation.

For our investigation we planted beans in pots and decided we would give one no water, one no sunlight, one no soil, one no heat and one had everything. We will log the beans progress weekly in our bean diary over the term. I wonder which one will grow the most? 

Welcome back!

Hope you've had a lovely half term break. 

This term our topic is Real Heroes. We will be learning about all the people who help us at home, school and in the community.  We hope to go out into the community and visit some of the places where these heroes work!

The texts we will be covering are shown above and if you want to check out our topic map to see what we are getting up to across the curriculum this term please follow the link below! 

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Forest school

Last week in forest school we made mud paint! We dug up some soil and mixed it with powder paint and water. Then we painted some lovely pictures using our mud paint!

Today we extended our activity by making our own paintbrushes! We found a stick and tied some leaves or grass to the stick using an elastic band. Then we used our paintbrushes to paint with the mud paint again. 

Welcome back! 

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.

This term our class topic is colours! We will be exploring a range of books including Rainbow Fish and Elmer and also looking at being kind and a good friend. 

Please see the our key texts for the term above and check out our class Topic Map! 

Kingfisher Team 

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Planting bulbs 

We were donated lots of different bulbs by Bulbs 4 kids! We had a great morning planting the different bulbs in our courtyard planter and in our class pot for the front of school. We look forward to seeing them grow in the spring. 

Roaming Reptiles! 

Today we had the most amazing experience in Kingfisher class. We had a visit from Lyndsey and her exotic pets, all the way from Rainforest Exotics in Ross-on-Wye! The children met a bearded dragon, a corn snake, a tortoise, a scorpion and a tarantula! The children loved it and were so calm and gentle. What a way to end our pet topic! 

Art 

This term we are exploring colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. We are going to be recreating a range of different artwork created by different artists. We will be displaying our amazing creations on our class display. Last week we focused on primary colours, line, squares and rectangles. 

Making slime! 

The children all explored slime this week. We made this slime by mixing cornflour and water together. The children observed the materials changing as they mixed together. After making the slime some of the children completed an experiment to see if their slime could protect and egg from breaking when dropping it. We all got very messy this afternoon! 

Science week! 

We have had an super first week back at Blackmarston. This week has been science week and every children has had lots of opportunities to take part in some amazing hands on science activities and experiments. Check out all the different things Kingfisher class got up to! 

Autumn term 2 

Welcome back! 

We hope you all had a lovely half term break. This term our topic is Pets! We have some lovely books to share with the children and some fantastic activities planned. Above you will see some of the key texts we are using this term.

Yes, some are Christmas books.. Yikes! that time of yeah already?! 

Kingfisher team 

Last week we made the puppets of Goldilocks and the Three Bears! 

We were very lucky, as Wrens class let is borrow their amazing puppet theatre. The children had a great time retelling the story and enjoying watching the show! 

At the end of our week we made porridge, just like the three bears had in the story. 

The children explored all the different ingredients and decided it would taste better with chocolate and strawberries. We then enjoyed it for our snack! 

Our next traditional tale was Goldilocks and the Three bears!

We told the story using props from our story sacks. The children loved making the story come to life. We also changed our Role-Play are into the three bears house! 

Physical Education 

This term we are focusing on Gross Motor movements and development in P.E. We are exploring the different ways we can travel across the room. Last week we used the equipment to create a circuit to travel around. 

The children all challenged themselves to climb up onto the large piece of equipment and jumped off!

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The first traditional tale we explored was The Billy Goat Gruff. The children loved exploring the story using sensory resources and small world characters.  Later in the week the children retold the story using our small would tuff spot!

Everyone loved shouting 'Who's That Trip Trapping Over My Bridge?!' 

Painting in Forest School

Every Monday morning we will be using our forest school area for lots of fun activities! We will try and go out come rain or shine, so the children can make the most of our outdoor resources. 

Today the children search for natural resources, such as sticks, leaves and stones and used the instead of paint brushes. We have lots of fun and it was a great start to the week! 

Welcome back! 

Hello from the Kingfisher team! 

We have had a wonderful time getting to know and settling in the children. Over the past two weeks the children have loved seeing their old friend the Colour Monster and meeting new friends like the Dragon who went to school! We have enjoyed lots of getting to know you sessions and taken part in lots of play, music, art and communication activities. 

This term we will be exploring different traditional tales. The children will have lots of opportunities to explore the stories through role-play, small world/construction and messy play/sensory activities. We will also compare different versions of the traditional tales, discuss what's different and vote for which one the children liked the most. 

Above you will see two subheadings where you will find useful weblinks to support your child at home and where you can see the termly topic map. The topic map is a great way to get and inside of what we are doing over the term. 

Thanks,

Kingfisher Team