Badgers – Class 1 at Dobcroft

Clay Fish on PhotoPeach

This week in our number work we have been thinking about how to make a given number eg ways to make 10 eg 5+5 6+4 7+3
In our knowledge and understanding of the World we have been finding out how the local woods have changed during the last few weeks. We noticed the new leaves , the bluebells and we also found an assortment of slugs during our visit to the woods on Monday. Thank you to all the parents who helped us on our walk.
We are thinking about which sea creature we would like to create and the materials we will use as part of our TASC work.
Next week we will be reading the Bad Tempered Ladybird and thinking about o’clock times . We will also read the Very Hungry caterpillar to help us learn about the days of the week.

We had a fantastic trip to the Deep. Thank you so much to all the parents/carers

who came with us to look after the children.

The children really enjoyed looking at the different types of fish . We also had a close look at shrimps during a workshop session with one of the members of staff from the Deep.Balloon Fish on PhotoPeach

This week in Badger Class we have been making chapatis and then writing our own instruction books so we can remember how to make them.
We have been thinking about sh,ch,th,ng ,ar.or and ow sounds. We have been jumping on letters outside to make words.
In maths we have been working with coins ~ sorting them, we had a “teasure hunt outside” looking for different coins. We have also started to think about “doubles” eg 6+6 makes 12. We will be working on doubles next week too . We will be using dice and dominoes to help us find doubles and find out what their total is.
Next week the illustartor Stephen Waterhouse will be working with the children .He will be talking to the children about the characters he drew for the story of the Runaway Chapati and helping the children draw their own runaway food.
Next week we will also be saying goodbye to one of our students. Sadly it will be Miss Boden’s last day on Thursday ~ we will all miss her very much.

This week we have been finding out about different coins from 1p-50p. The children have been sorting  the coins, playing games with money and buying items in our role play fruit shop.

We have been busy working on our phonics outside making words like mat and cat, shop and ship and light and sight.

We have been retelling the story of the Runaway Chapati and the children are beginning to think about a different type of food that might runaway in their own story . Maleeka had a good idea for a story called the runaway rice and Isaac thought his story might be about the runaway cake.

The children have enjoyed looking at all the pictures of sports that parents and carers sent in . Thank you very much mums and dads!

The children have been sorting old and new toys this week and talking about why they think something is new and why they think it might be old.

I have not been able to put the paper bag puppets pictures on the blog yet ~ the software I use does not seem to be responding . Hopefully this will be resolved soon !

This week we were very lucky in Badger Class because Chloe’s Mummy ~ Jane Cooke brought in her medals and told us all about being an Olympic and Commonwealth Diver.
We all enjoyed trying out the different diving posistions ( on dry land!) . Thank you Jane for giving up your time .The children really enjoyed seeing all your medals and watching your diving DVD. Next week we are going to think about which of the Learning Seals Jane needed to be to be such a fantastic diver.
We learning the story of the Gingerbread Man . Next week we will be writing our own Gingerbread Man story.
We have also got two class “Jofli Bears” .
Jofli Bear likes to walk to different places. He likes visiting different children’s houses. Jofli Bear will come and stay at your house with his little adventure book. You can write about what you have been doing and then send Jofli back to school so we can all read his adventure book.
Mrs Russ and Mrs Rowlett will be on a Speech and Language Course on Monday. Mrs Leaf and Mrs Warburton will be teaching the children on Monday.Mrs Russ and Mrs Rowlett will see you all on Tuesday.

This week we learnt how to play Rugby with Will and Dean.
We all had ago at trying to get the ball over the bar. We had to use the top of our foot to hit the ball.

Thank You for bringing in pictures of the sports you enjoy playing.

This week we have been retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
We have been counting with the counting caterpillar and playing track games.
We have also been looking at photographs of people’s faces and talking with a talking partner about how we think the people are feeling. We have also painted pictures of our faces using different colours to show different feelings.
Next week we will have a travelling book fair in school. The Book Fair will be in the entrance hall and will be open from 3pm-4pm Monday -Friday. There will be lots of books for you to buy , and the school will also recieve some books for the library if we spend lots of money!

We have had an Eid party and Mrs Ali told us about how she celebrates Eid with her family.
We have also been writing about Bonfire Night.
We have also started to learn to tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Next week we will bring home a story map to help us learn this story at home.

This week we have been counting carefully and some children have been playing a counting game with a dice called “my six favourite” things.
We have also been sharing our treasure boxes with a friend and finding something that is “similar” and something that is “different”in our boxes . Then we had to draw a picture.
We have made some firework pictures with wax crayons and paint.
Next week we are going to be writing a sentence about what we did at the weekend . We will be learning to tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In our number work we will be counting with the “naughty” caterpillar and finding different ways to arrange sets of bears in houses.
We will also be continuing with our phonic activities inside and outside.
We are trying to collect bumble bees for “keeping our hands to ourselves”. If we collect five bees we can go on the Trim Trail.
Please could you make sure your child’s green reading record book stays inside their blue reading folder.
Thank you Mrs Russ.

This week Razzle and Dazzle came down to Foundation. We did an experiment to find out what their favourite food was. We gave Razzle and Dazzle some apple, carrot and broccoli.
Can you remember what we found out?