Puffins
Key Texts This term
Welcome back!
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break.
Our topic this term is 'Looking after our world'. At the start of term we will be diving into the ocean and reading the story 'Somebody Swallowed Stanley'. Later on we will be hiking into the forest and reading the story 'Somebody Crunch Collin'.
Please see our topic map in the subheading above.
Liss and the Puffins Team
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Following instructions to make a Jam Sandwich
Cause and Effect
Drawing fruits and vegetables
Developing our understanding of where our food comes from. How are crisps made?
Retelling The Enormous Turnip
Acting out the Enormous Turnip Story
Painting with Veggies
Touching, smell, tasting and matching Vegetables
Making Super Veggies
Exploring different vegetables and playing with the farm
Key Text this Term
Welcome back!
We hope you all have a lovely half term break.
Our topic this term is 'Food and Where it Come From'. We will be reading the Traditional Tale 'The Enormous Turnip' in class to spark our interests into different foods and how they are grown/made.
Please see our topic map in the subheading above.
Liss and the Puffins Team
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My Measurement
Cause and Effect - Bubbles
Puffins Starry Night Art work - using Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle to support
Fun in Forest School
Acting out and sequencing the steps to get ready to travel to the moon!
Space small world play
Science: Exploring Materials
Blackmarston Times
Breaking News!
There have been reports this week of a crashed alien spaceship outside the Puffins classroom! The UFO was discovered early Tuesday morning by the children in Puffins class! Pupil have been saying a friendly alien called Beegu was pulled from the wreckage.
The children in Puffin's class report hearing a loud bang outside during hellos, so they went out to investigate the noise. No further comments have been heard.
Key Text this Term
Welcome back!
We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break and wish you a happy new year!
Our topic this term is 'The Star and Beyond'. We will be making friends with lost alien called Beegu and having lots of fun and engaging experiences based around space.
Please see our topic map in the subheading above.
Liss and the Puffins Team
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Making Dinosaur Fossils
Finding five Hiding Dinosaurs in Forest School
How my world works
In science we learnt about how big some of the dinosaurs were. We then put our investigation hats on to try and answer these three questions:
1. How many shoes would fit into a Triceratops foot print?
2. Would a T-rex tooth fit into our mouth?
3. Would a Diplodocus fit in our playground?
We all took off our shoes and found that we needed 20 shoes to fill the foot print! When then tried to fit a cut out version of the tooth in our mouth, we discovered no, it wouldn't! After we went outside and held a piece of string 26m long and found that yes, a diplodocus would fit. What a big playground we have!
Dinosaur prints in Playdough!
Dinosaur Swap
Searching for Dinosaurs in the shredded paper
Dinosaur Hook!
On no! Some eggs were left in Puffin's class over half term and were ready to hatch, but the animals inside needed our help. We all took turns in choosing an animal that we thought might be inside the abandoned eggs. After, we rescued the animals by carefully cracking into the eggs and discovered there were dinosaurs inside!
Over the week we will read our key text Tyrannosaurus drip a few pages at a time and will have lots of discussions around new words using props and actions to support our learning.
Bonfire Night inspired mark making
Our Main books this Term!
Welcome back.
This term we will be going back in time to the land of DINOSAURS!
We are all very excited about his topic and can't wait to share all the fun things we get up to with you. Make sure to look at our topic map in the subpage above.
All the best,
Puffin Team
Frozen pumpkins and pumpkin ice
My Communication
We took parts in lots of different activities based around our book 'Going on a Leaf Hunt'. We painted with leaves, cut and ripped leaves and played with leaves in water.
My World
In science and geography we have been exploring and learning about the four seasons. Following our Autumn sensology session we went to use our senses on our Autumn walk around school. We walked down to the orchard and found apples on the trees! This was one of our signs for Autumn, so we pick some that were ready and will use them to create art and to make crumble with.
My Reading
In class we have been using our Stick Man story road to help us retell a simple version of our Stick Man story. We have used this with props, communication boards and switch to retell the story and bring it to life.
Painting Stick Man
Saving Stick Man from the ice and frost!
Making Marks
Stick Man
After reading and exploring the first half of our Stick Man book we engaged in a carousel of activities based around the story. We used sticks as pens and made marks in gloop, we used sticks to make flags for our sandcastles and used sticks to splash and play in the water.
Other Books we will be Exploring
Our Key Text
Welcome back!
We are so excited to start this year! I hope everyone had a fantastic summer and had lots of fun.
Above you will see some flowers. If you click on them you will be able to access key information like the teachers in your class, termly topic maps and websites you might find useful.
Our topic the term is 'Seasons' and our key text if Stickman. Keep checking the page for regular updates on what we are doing in class and photos of your child having lots of fun.
Liss and the Puffins Team
