Thunberg

Welcome to Thunberg’s Class Page. The adults working in the classroom daily are Cathy, class teacher alongside T.As Becca and Ines.

Term 4

Thunberg have continued the theme of superheroes, but changed this slightly to look at animal superheroes. This week we have looked at the story ‘Superworm’. We have created our own superhero animals as well as acrostic poems based around worms. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed looking at fact cards related to worms, drawing our own worms and using positional language to describe where the worms in the pictures are.  In Maths, we have worked on using a ruler accurately measure different size worms. Some of us have also been estimating where numbers might sit on number lines. In Attention Autism, we have made our own cheerio worms and made repeated patterns on our own Superworm. In sensory and creative time, we have made our own Easter hats for the Easter fayre. In cooking time, we enjoyed making our own edible worm garden.

This week we have continued the theme of superheroes, looking at the story, ‘Superhero ABC’. We have created our own superheroes for a letter of the alphabet and written about their special abilities. In ‘Planned Play’, we have created our own superhero gadgets and found superhero related words within a word search.  The children have also designed their on superhero outfits. In Maths, some of us have on our counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have also completed number lines, answering questions using maths based vocabulary. In Attention Autism, we have made our own underwater worlds and upside down superhero. In sensory and creative time, we have carried out superhero rescues and painted our own superhero characters. In cooking time, we have made spaghetti hoops on toast, working on our understanding of safety and encouraging independence.

The children have started the theme of superheroes, looking at the story, ‘Eliot Midnight superhero’. We have written storyboards for our own superhero adventure focusing on the setting, good and bad characters and their props. In ‘Planned Play’, we have created our own healthy meal for our superhero and made our own superhero props.  In Maths, we have worked on our understanding of how long a minute is and tried to complete a range of tasks in this time. In Attention Autism, we have made our superhero masks and completed a superhero challenge of using tweezers to build a tower. In sensory and creative time, we have carried out superhero challenges. On Thursday, we had our curriculum day where we were recycling superheroes, inspired by the story, ‘Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug’. We sorted recyclable objects into different materials and explored their properties. We also made Earth toast. In the afternoon, we made our own superhero movie clip and props for this.

This week we have been looking at a range of books as part of our preparation for World Book Day. We have then looked at reviewing our favourite books and some of us have written book reports on our favourite books. In ‘Planned Play’, we have also been working on writing party invitations, designed a book cover for our favourite book and written about an alternative ending for a story.  In Maths, we have continued working on our individual targets. We have also worked on grid references. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around our favourite books; we have created our own teacup designs, made props for a story, worked on spotting the difference between two pictures and worked on our fine motor by finding our way through a maze. In Attention Autism, we have made our own Cheshire cat and cut out objects that Floyd threw in his tree. In sensory and creative time, we made seed bombs and part of our learning from the Shadow puppet company that came in on Wednesday. This week in food time, we created our own desserts for the Mad Hatter tea party. On Thursday, we also enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. What a busy week!

We have started our new term with the story, ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’. We have particularly looked at writing instructions. In ‘Planned Play’, we have also been working on writing shopping lists for recipes and describing our favourite part of the story in our writing. In Maths, we have been comparing numbers whether that it on number lines or through the way numbers are represented. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around pancakes; we have created our own pancakes, made props to retell this week’s story, ordered the story in the correct sequence and found pancake related words in a word search. In Attention Autism, we have decorated pancakes with faces and glitter. In sensory and creative time, we explored some of the ingredients of pancakes. We have also explored how adding different quantities of water changes the consistency of the flour, discussing the vocabulary we can use to describe what we saw. This week in food time, we have compared the look, taste and texture of two different types of pancakes.

Term 3

This week we have continued exploring the imaginary world of dragons through the story, ‘Dragon Post’. We have particularly looked at the features of a letter. In ‘Planned Play’, we have been working on writing an informal letter from the dragon in our story to say thank you. In Maths, we have been working on using our understanding of place value and number bonds to calculate the answer to number sentences. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around dragons; we have designed ways to protect the egg of the dragon by using different materials, made our on split pin dragons and found the hidden words in the word search. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making cupcake and paper plate dragons. In sensory and creative time, we have painted our dragons from last week and explored the imaginary homes of dragons.  This week in food time, we have followed the visual instructions to make our own sandwiches independently and decorated our own dragon biscuits.

The children have begun exploring the imaginary world of dragons this week through the story, ‘Tell Me a Dragon’. We have looked closely at dragons and explored their similarities and differences from each other. In ‘Planned Play’, we have been looking at including adjectives in our creating and writing. We have looked at how adjectives can help build a picture in our head. We have also looked at similes and created our own dragon poems using similes to compare dragon features.  In Maths, we have continued working on ordinal language such as before and after, applying this to numbers on a number line. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around dragons, designing our dragons, cutting out our own dragons and answering subtraction questions to build a picture of a dragon. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making dragon eggs and dragon faces. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed making dragon models and creating dragon worlds. This week in food time, we made rocky road, exploring how a microwave can change ingredients by melting them and how a fridge can be used to harden a mixture.

This week we have explored the festival Chinese New Year and learnt about some of the ways it is celebrated. Through the story, ‘The Great Race’ we have learnt about how the years were given names after different animals. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed writing how Chinese New Year is celebrated. We have also identified some of the differences and similarities between this festival and Christmas.  In Maths, we have worked on our understanding of odd and even numbers, and ordinal language such as before and after. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around our Chinese New Year and have attempted Chinese writing; role played a Chinese restaurant, ordered the finishing order of the Zodiac animals and made Chinese decorations. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making lantern and paperchain dragons. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed making paper lantern and exploring different textures. This week in food time, we helped recall the instructions to make Chinese dishes and identified the correct appliances to use.

This week we have begun with the story, ‘The Colour Monster’. The monster in the story has all sorts of emotions during the story so we have been focusing on how different activities or events make us feel. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed making up our own colour monster, and described how they are feeling in our writing. In Maths, we have continued consolidating 3D shapes and their similarities and differences to 2D shapes. During the week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including making props for the story, sorting activities by how they make us feel and matching our facial expressions to how we might feel based on an emotion using mirrors. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making our own monster plates and play dough monster. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed making our own monsters with a variety of materials. This week in food time, we made our own monsters from bread, fruit and vegetables.

I hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas. We have had a busy start to the term. This term we are exploring imaginary worlds. We have begun with the story, ‘Aliens Love Underpants’. We have worked on recalling the story and answering who, what, where, when, why and how questions about it as well as sequencing the story. In ‘Planned Play’, we have designed our own aliens and written speech bubbles for the aliens. In Maths, we recapped on 2D shapes and their features. We then looked in more detail at 3D shapes and their similarities and differences to 2D shapes. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including making props for the story, colouring alien characters, ordering underpants by size, designing our own underpants and completing the missing numbers within the alien number sentences. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making our own alien faces and alien characters from toilet rolls. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed exploring an alien planet as well as painting our own aliens. This week in food time, we made our own aliens from noodles.

Term 2

This week we have explored Christmas through the story, ‘We’re Going on an Elf Chase’. We enjoyed finding the elves in the story like our elves in Thunberg. In ‘Planned Play’, we have described the elves in Father Christmas’ workshop and written Christmas lists. In Maths, we have enjoyed Christmas related maths tasks including counting, addition and place value. This week, we have also had fun making our own split pin elf, designing our own Christmas jumpers and enjoyed Christmas colouring. In Attention Autism, we made our own elf faces and toilet roll reindeers. This week in food time, we made our own reindeer cakes too. We were also very lucky to have a visit from Father Christmas.

We have continued exploring Christmas through the story, ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’. We have worked on recalling the story and answering questions about it as well as sequencing the story on a story map. In ‘Planned Play’, we have written about our favourite part of the story and identified the setting and characters of the story. In Maths, we have continued consolidating our knowledge of place value by comparing numbers to each other. We also raced Christmas wind-up characters to work on our ordinal numbers. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including writing our own Christmas cards for the Jolly Postman, making props for the story, colouring characters and completing a Jolly Postman word search. We have continued enjoying our Christmas Post Office role-play area. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed decorating our own Christmas trees and our own paper chain snowman. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed sponge painting Christmas characters, exploring snow and Christmassy objects. This week in food time, we made our own Christmas trees and strawberry Santas.

This week we began exploring Christmas through the story, ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present’. We have worked on recalling the story and answering questions about it. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed creating our own vehicle for Father Christmas, labelling and writing about it. In Maths, we have been consolidating our knowledge of place value. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including guessing the Christmas object from the clue, continuing the repeating pattern, making block graphs and designing our own Father Christmas sleigh. We have also enjoyed our Christmas Post Office role-play area. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making our own Christmas picture using stencils and flour as well as making our own Christmas tree from paint with forks. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed blowing paint to make pictures and using our own wrapping station to wrap presents. This week in food time, we made our own present from tortilla and crisps then enjoyed eating them.

This week we have revisited our learning on space, looking at a non-fiction book, ‘The Big Book of Space’. We have identified some of the features of non-fiction texts and compared them to fiction texts. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed creating our planet fact files, reading fact files on space and labelling rockets, astronauts and space buggies. In Maths, we revisited the signs of greater and less than with the greedy crocodile eating all the biggest numbers. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including making our own astronaut, space themed maths word puzzles and space colouring. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making our own glitter space pictures and planet paintings. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed making our own space pictures. This week in cooking time, we made our own rocket from bread, fruit and pasta. We enjoyed finding out the changes in the pasta once cooked and observed many changes to the environment as the pasta cooked.

This week we have enjoyed the story, ‘Oi! Get off our train’ about a train journey with a difference with endangered animals boarding the trip. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed creating our own endangered animal posters, reading the endangered animal fact files and writing about our favourite part of the story. In Maths, the children continued to work on the vocabulary, greater and less than as well as equal to as well as the signs associated with it. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including 2D shape trains, retelling the story in our tufty tray, endangered animal top trumps, word searches, and endangered animal colouring. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed making our own trains and fork polar bear faces. In sensory and creative time, we have enjoyed exploring different environments that endangered animals live in and made our own clay animals. This week in cooking time, we made polar bear toast characters. On Thursday, we enjoyed our Curriculum Day and learnt lots more about endangered animals, and the environments they live in. We also enjoyed dressing up.

This week we have enjoyed the story, ‘Whatever Next’ about a bear who travels in a cardboard box to the moon. In ‘Planned Play’, we have enjoyed designing our own planets. In Maths, the children worked on their targets we also worked on the vocabulary, greater and less than as well as equal to. During this week, we have also had fun completing activities around our weekly book including 2D shape rockets, retelling the story with props, space themed adding, word searches, and space colouring. In Attention Autism, we have enjoyed made night skies and space rocket pictures. In sensory time, we have enjoyed making our own shaving foam and paint planets. This week in cooking time, we made porridge. We also decorated our own bear biscuits. On Wednesday, some of us also enjoyed a trip to the cinema. We had very comfortable seats and had a fantastic time.