Unicorn Class Blog             Term 6 Week 3                Week Commencing 16th June 2025

 Wow, what a very hot week, that fitted in perfectly with our space topic and for exploring this week's sun theme. All of the children have coped amazingly and enjoyed exploring shadows made by the sunlight being blocked, using all their senses in hands-on exploration of ice, especially feeling it in their hands, watching it melt and eating ice pops. Here are some of the comments we have made about what we have learnt this week; “Planets go all around the sun.”, “The sun is really hot.”, “The sun is a star.”, “It is the closest star to earth”, “The sun makes shadows.”, “The sun helps plants to grow.”. This week we have enjoyed using collage materials and paints to make paper plate suns and planets. 

During Forest school this week we loved playing with hay bales. We used teamwork and strong muscles to transport the hay to where we wanted it and then used it to make gigantic bird nests. We also loved jumping on it, laying, sitting and touching it. We also enjoyed using the hammock, rope swings and looking for minibeasts. We found a scurrying beetle and lots of ladybird larvae.

The walled garden was also popular this week with playing hide and seek, the gingerbread man and climbing trees.

During phonics we have been rhyming, using alliteration, recapping all of the sounds we have learnt so far, orally segmenting and blending. We have been practising writing the letters, lots of us have wanted to use our letter knowledge to attempt to write on the small and big whiteboard, in note books and on their pictures. We also played an Alien and crocodile game.

During maths this week we have been doing lots of counting, solving real mathematical problems with numbers and linking numerals to amounts. We did this by using some red and yellow rockets with teddies inside, playing the spotty dog game, singing number songs and finding the number on the number line, number puzzles and during snack time by looking at the number of pieces of fruit we could have.

This week some of the other activities we have enjoyed doing are using Stickle bricks, magnetic blocks, building strong homes that the big bad wolf could not blow over, using the play mobil, making music using the musical instruments, playing in the sand, drawing, playing with the water and playing families. 

Next week we will be having a seaside theme and we will continue practising for Sports Day. Sports Day is on Thursday 3rd July at 9 am on the all weather pitch. The reserve date is Friday 4th July.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to more exploring with you next week.

Best wishes

Mrs Fenwick