Class information

• PE on a Thursday and Friday - please send your child in PE kit for the day. 
• Swimming will be in 2025- we will let you know details nearer the time.
• Forest school starts Wednesday 11th September - information will be sent out.
• Don't forget to send reading books and diaries in each day. 
• Homework will be set on a Friday. 
• Please message via SeeSaw with any queries. 

    The Grasshoppers Team 

Spring 1

27-31st January 2025

Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale and how she made hospitals clean and safe. We found out how she looked after the soldiers and gave them medicine to make them better.

The children have really enjoyed playing nurses and looking after the babies in our class and pretending to be nurses.

We have been looking at a non-fiction book all about Florence and recognising the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.

We have also had lots of fun in PE working at our balancing hoops and using beanbags,hoops and mats to transport beanbags and move in lots of different ways.

Week commencing 2nd December

Grasshoppers have had a busy few weeks during the Autumn term. We have had lots of fun at forest school building dens and toasting marshmallows!

In English we have been reading Elmer and learning about being special, we made and wrote simple sentences and key words about Elmer and how he was feeling. 

We have also been looking at the book Hurry Santa , getting us in the Christmas mood and also predicting what we think will happen next. The children loved the part where the sleigh gets stuck in the snow and found it so funny that Santa was late all the time.

The grasshoppers have been finding out about seasons in Science, in particular , Autumn and enjoyed taking Autumnal walks around school collecting autumn leaves and twigs to explore in the classroom.

23rd September 2024

We have had a super start to the Autumn term so far and have been very busy! The Grasshoppers have been enjoying our dinosaur topic 'Jump into the Jurassic'! . We have been learning about different types of dinosaurs, dinosaur sensory activities and finding fossils in topic. This week we will be making some salt dough fossils and then carrying out some fossil excavation so watch this space! 

In English our books so far have been 'The dinosaur that pooped a planet' and 'Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs, the dinosaurs managed to escape and hid around the classroom and even on the school playing field!

We have been very lucky to have Rachel the artist in every Tuesday afternoon for the next few weeks and the children have taken part in some wonderful art and sensory activities in the small hall, they have really enjoyed it!

The Grasshoppers have also loved getting outdoors in the fresh air for forest school and talking part in lots of amazing activities . We will keep updating with photos of these activities!