Lifecycles

Our topic this week has been Life Cycles and the books we have been using to support our learning are The Hungry Caterpillar and Tad (our key text this half term.)

We have learnt lots of new vocabulary this week and have been able to explain the lifecycle of a frog and a butterfly!

In Literacy we have been reading words by segmenting and blending to match labels to food in a shop for the hungry caterpillar. We then progressed onto writing labels for food in the shop, using Fred Fingers to help us segment each sound. Some of us read and wrote words with Set 1 sounds and some of us read and write words with Set 2 sounds from Read Write Inc. Some words were very tricky as they had more than one Special Friends sound and were longer words!

In the creative area we developed our physical skills by cutting and colouring in frogs, we practised doubling playing a ladybird game and created symmetrical pictures of butterflies in the painting area. Outside we were very interested in minibeasts as we weeded the garden and found different types. We have been setting ourselves challenges on the climbing frame and have been balancing, swinging and climbing to new heights! 

We have had fun with the Beebots again revisiting our programming skills and have been enjoying reading books about animals and plants in the reading area.

Here are some of our independent learning activities and challenges!