We started off the week with another fantastic visit to Rendlesham Forest - the weather was very kind to us and the children had a lovely day exploring all the forest had to offer, as well as enjoying the play equipment too!

Max came along too and enjoyed having a go on the swings and the zip-wire!

Higher! Higher!

Helping out...

Den building...

Two pairs of hands needed!

Building a campfire!

Enjoying a walk through the forest.

Working out the maze.

Look at me!

Looking out for each other - what a great friend!

A well-deserved break for lunch.

Back in the classroom e have written our own list poems this week, based on 'Ten Things in a Wizard's Pocket' by Ian McMillan - these were then beautifully written up and decorated by our authors and will be sent in as entries to the 'Suffolk Young Poets Competition' - see http://www.poetrypeople.co.uk/home/4592237524 for more details.

This week Year 1 have been learning about making words plural - this means more than one. Here is a video you could watch at home to help you remember when to add 's' or 'es'.

There is no Home Learning this week as next Thursday is the last day of term - but please make sure you read your reading books to an adult over the weekend!


Don't forget we will be opening up our classrooms on Monday and Tuesday between 3:15-3:45pm to give parents/carers a chance to look at what we have been up to this term.

We began the week with our healthy eating share, led by Mike James. We learned lots about what we should be aiming to eat for breakfast - and how much we should be eating as a 'portion'! Thank you to all the parents that came along.

We followed this up on Tuesday by thinking about what a healthy lunch might look like. We had a tasting session of some different lunch foods and then sorted them into food groups (fruit, vegetables, proteins, carbs and snacks) to help us see how much of each type of food we should be eating.

Don't our finished versions of 'The Farm' look great?

We have been working hard on learning some tricky spelling patterns this week - here are Year 1 working out whether to use a 'c' or a 'k' ...

We have started to do some poetry this week and on Monday we had 10 rather odd objects given to us as clues and we had to work out whose pocket they came from! 
First we had 'Ten things found in a Wizard's pocket' and then we had 'Ten things found in a Shipwrecked Sailors pocket'!

We are going to write our own 'Ten things....' poem so got into character to help us think about what might be in our pockets!

A huge well done to all the Reception children who came to visit us this morning for their Transition Morning - it was great to get to know you a little better and I am looking forward to September - I hope you are too!


James was in the Golden Book this week for a great 'can do' attitude in class this week and also being a great role-model for the Reception children today.


Home Learning this week is to complete the 'data' task - creating tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. 

This week we have been using lots of resources in Maths to help us work out the answer to and 'prove' some number problems!

We have also been busy working on our 'Farm' artwork we started last week - everyone is being super careful and these are going to look fantastic stuck up around our classroom soon!

On Thursday we had our Sports Day - it was great to see so many parents come along. Everyone tried their best in both the field events (speed bounce, standing throw, long jump and beanbag toss) and track events (sprint, egg and spoon, sack, hoop and horseshoe tun) and had a really fun morning competing for house points for their team.

Alex was in the Golden Book this week for working really hard on his independent writing, which is now in lovely clear sentences with capital letters and full stops, and for applying his phonics knowledge to help him spell new words.


Home Learning
Due Thursday 6th July

Your home learning this week is to design a pot for our 'Friendship Soup' to be sold in - don't forget to add the name to the label!
There is also a little maths problem at the bottom of the page - can you work it out?

Don't forget, we have our Healthy Eating share on Monday morning at 10am - we would love to see lots of you there!

We have been enjoying taking care of our chicks and watching them grow and develop their first feathers this week. We do have lots of jobs though!

Cleaning out the cage!

These chicks are really messy!

Year 2 have been working on making their writing more interesting by using adverbs - words which tell us about the verbs in the sentence, like quickly, gently, mysteriously and angrily.
Here they are making some new sentences...

We have also been starting to make 'Friendship Soup' - so far ingredients include kindness, happiness and responsibility. We will be working on our 'method' next week!

On Thursday we learned about the Spanish artist Miro, who paints in the style of 'Magical Realism' - things look realistic but a little odd at the same time! We studied his picture 'The Farm' that was based on his memories of his life. We then had a go at our own 'The Farm' artwork, drawing things from our lives that are important to us. Here are some examples of our work so far...

Faith was in the Golden Book this week for working so hard in English over the past few weeks - remembering and then using the things we have told you to help you improve your work. 


Home Learning
Due Thursday 29th June

Your home learning this week is to see if you can find another example of some artwork in the same style as Miro's - Magical Realism.
Find a picture and stick it in your home learning books with the title and painter, then write a sentence or two about what you think about the picture.

We look forward to seeing lots of you at the re-arranged Sport's Day on Thursday 29th!

We have really enjoyed having the chicks in our class all week this week and have written some fantastic 'Chick Diaries' - we hope everyone that managed to come and visit us this week enjoyed sharing the children's work with them and meeting our new fluffy friends!

We have been learning how to take care of them and thought about the kinds of jobs we need to do each day. We also talked about the things we need to think about when we are touching or holding them, like washing our hands and being very gentle with them as they are still only babies!

We finished the week by writing some instructions to tell other people how to hatch chicks and what to do to take care of them afterwards. This produced some absolutely amazing independent writing from everyone, well done!

It was lovely to see so many parents this afternoon to work with the Blyth Woods group to help weed and mulch the tiny trees we are growing and think about how we can identify the trees in the school ground. Thank you so much if you were able to pop along.

Home Learning

Due Thursday 22nd June

Your home learning this week is an activity to practice the skills we have been working on in maths - working with money.

Year 1 need to make the amounts shown using coins and Year 2 need to work out how much change is needed for each question. Don't forget the methods we have taught you this week to help you work it out!

Don't forget - Thursday (22nd) is Sports Day! 

Letters were sent home this week to give information about times and advise what children need to bring with them. 

Ploughman's lunches are available to order from the Friends of Wenhaston - please call in to the office if you have lost the letter and would like to book one.

What an exciting week it has been!

This week we have had some new friends come to join us in Class 2....
We had some eggs arrive on Monday and we eagerly watched and waited - and on Wednesday morning we came in to a lovely surprise of a baby chick that had hatched overnight!

This was quickly followed by 3 more that day and then we found another 3 had hatched when we arrived on Thursday morning!

We have had a lovely few days watching them grow and run around the cage - they are starting to develop their own little personalities now, so we have begun to think about names. So far we have decided on 'Flappy', 'Chickaboo' and 'Tiny'.

  
More excitement was had on Thursday afternoon - Iris and her Granny very kindly brought in her baby quails for us to see and stroke - we thought they were very sweet and were much smaller than our chicks!

We have been writing our own 'Chick Diaries' all week and we have had some amazing writing from this! Next week we will be continuing this by thinking about writing instructions and tips about how to hatch and take care of chicks.


Joshua was in the Golden Book this week for really working hard and remembering and applying what he has been learning - especially in phonics! Well done!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 15th June.

Year 1 - Your home learning this week is some phonics activities, reading real and 'monster' or alien words and sorting them out.

Year 2 - You have a grammar activity this week based on what you have been learning about nouns and past/present tenses. 

This weeks spellings have been added to your spelling books as usual.

We have had a lovely last week of term with lots of nice activities to finish off a busy few weeks.

We had a bit of an impromptu first 'P4C' (Philosophy for Children) session based on some thoughts we had during English. We talked about the character 'The Cheshire Cat' from Alice in Wonderland and found out that he had stolen the Queen's jam tarts! We talked about the fact that stealing is wrong - but then Mrs Flynn suggested that maybe the Queen wouldn't miss them as she had lots of money and probably more jam tarts than she needed....
Mrs Curtis disagreed and said that stealing is always wrong, no matter who the person and we had some super discussions about whether or not it was OK that the Cheshire Cat stole from the Queen - and whether or not that was any different to stealing from our friends...

Finally we had an anonymous vote - using the question 

Do you think it was wrong for the Cheshire Cat to steal the Queens jam tarts?

6 people thought it was OK and 18 people thought it was wrong. What do you think?

On Wednesday we took a walk down to the common through our own 'Wonderland' - Wenhaston!
In pairs we had to find and collect some things that remind us of the place we live in.

We have started to create some lovely natural collages using the objects we found, which will look fantastic in our classroom.

Today we have had our film morning and the children really enjoyed watching Alice in Wonderland with their special teddies from home.

The whole of Year 2 were in the Golden Book this week for such a fantastic attitude and all their hard work during the past few weeks, completing their 'Secret Agent' tasks. I am very proud of what you have all achieved - well done.


Home Learning 
Due week commencing 5th June.

I would like everyone to spend just a little bit of time looking back at the spellings from this half term and try to read their holiday reading books please. Extra house points will be given next term for this.

There is no additional Home Learning this week - have a nice break and spend some time with your family enjoying the gorgeous weather!


See you on Monday 5th!