Unicorn Class Blog                     Term 4 Week 1                         Week Commencing 23rd February 2026

This week we have had lots of excitement about our new topic ‘Wheels, wings or walking?’ We have been exploring different ways that we can travel around the garden, all weather pitch, walled garden and hall. We have enjoyed sharing the story ‘Rosie’s Walk’ by Pat Hutchins. We were very interested in listening to the story, looking at the pictures, and discussing what Rosie and the fox were doing on Rosie’s walking journey. We helped Mrs Fenwick to make a list of items we would like to include for our Rosie’s Walk display and then some of us drew and painted some of the items. We mixed yellow and a little bit of red to make orange for Rosie's hen pen and yellow with a little bit of blue to make green for our pond and frogs. Some of us wanted to make stripy bees using collage materials and pens. We have been fascinated by a toy windmill like in Rosie's walk. We were interested in exploring different ways to make the sails spin around and to work out how to make the lift go up and down.

Playdough has been popular this week with lots of pizza, birthday cakes and animals being made.

We have loved watching real diggers and dumper trucks going through our big outside area. We have enjoyed using the toy diggers, dumper truck and other vehicles in the sand. We have also used our great imagination to pretend we are builders fixing and making different buildings and play equipment. The role play has included a shop that has sold wooden planks and blocks. 

Outside we have loved using the all weather pitch to run around on, use the balls, play ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’, ‘The floor is lava’, walking carefully on the lines and making up our own games. We loved exploring the walled garden and were very happy at the end of the week to have our big playground back.

Our maths focus this week has been experiencing and understanding positional language. As part of this we have made obstacle courses using tyres, we got behind them and carefully pushed them so that they were in a row next to each other. We were then able to climb over and into each tyre. We were able to step on top of each stepping stone and weave in between the cones. We played down by the station, we took it in turns to be the train driver and choose whether we wanted to go under the bridge or over.  We used prepositional language whilst building with magnetic shapes, blocks, Lego and whilst travelling around the climbing frame.

There has been lots of sorting with the small colourful vehicles sometimes sorting by colour other times by vehicle type and amazing counting. 

During phonics this week we have continued to enjoy looking at and noticing rhyming in books and nursery rhymes. We have also been using alliteration such as wet windy Wednesday and Sam’s spotty snake. We are continuing to learn the words and actions to our Alphabet chant. We have been learning the letters ‘c’ (The curly caterpillar crawls) and ‘k’ (The kangaroo keeps kicking). The patter we use when writing the grapheme ‘c’ is ‘Curl around the caterpillar’ and ‘k’ is ‘From head to toe, arm up, kick out’. We practiced writing ‘c’ and ‘k’ letters using our magic fingers, pencils and pens. We have been thinking of lots of items that begin with c and k.

During our Forest School time this week we were very curious watching a real toad and a frog in the pond and spotting bubbles that newts were making when they came up to the top of the surface, it was tricky spotting the newts as they were quick and kept coming up to the surface at different spots, Liam spotted a pond snail in the pond near the edge. We also enjoyed hammering nails into wood, using the rope swings, mud kitchen and playing with the little vehicles.

We have had a case of head lice reported. Please can you check your child’s hair and treat accordingly.

We are celebrating World Book Day 2025 on Thursday 5th March. This year's theme is to ‘Go all in together’ celebrating the reading that your child chooses to do in their free time without judgement. Please find more information on the world book day website: www.worldbookday.com Children are welcome to dress up if they would like to and we encourage you to reuse or exchange costumes instead of buying new ones. Children may also bring in a book they would like to share.

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

Best wishes

Mrs Fenwick