Unicorn Class Blog                                 Term 5 Week 3                  Week Commencing 27th April 2026

Wow, what busy bees the Unicorn Class have been this week.

We have been learning lots of interesting facts about bees, such as honey bees collect nectar from flowers and then take it back to the hive, passing it to other bees to make it thicker honey. This is used to feed the baby bees, we found out a baby bee is called larva. We learnt that pollen from flowers sticks to bees, and then they take it to other flowers, which then helps to form new seeds. During our hall time we played a game where we pretended we were bees, the hoops were flowers and the bean bags were nectar and the balls were pollen. We ran around pretending we were flying bees, collecting nectar from the flowers and bringing them back to our bee hive. We also took pollen from flower to flower. This week we have enjoyed making delicious honey bee biscuits. Using the tweezers and scoops to collect honey loops, bees and pompoms. We have been making bees and beehives using glue, collage materials, felt tips and pencils.

At the beginning of the week we noticed that some of the sunflowers that were in the compost tray had started to split, a stem had started to grow on them and they had two leaves. We are continuing to water our sunflowers and bean seeds in pots but can still only see compost in the runner bean pots. We wondered whether any of our seeds have grown roots that we cannot see.

Outside we have enjoyed using the climbing frame, rocking barrel, pedal and balance bikes. Pretending to be superheroes, rescuing animals and vegetables, searching for mini beasts, playing the 3 little pigs and families, making food for the pigs and wolves, potions and obstacle courses.

Our main maths focus this week has been counting and matching numerals to amounts. We have been doing number games involving reciting numbers in the correct order, recognising numbers, counting and comparing quantities. The spotty dog game, counting during cooking, counting loose parts, car, honey loops and toy bees  were our favourites. We have also been doing counting and action songs including, ‘Here is the beehive but where are the Bees?’

During phonics this week we continued to play rhyming games, we used ‘Baa,Baa Black Sheep’ to do voice sounds, talked about voice sounds and did oral blending and segmenting. We played ‘Georgie’s Gym’. We are continuing to learn the words and actions to our Alphabet chant. The letters we have been learning this week were ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’. The letter ‘x’ ('The excited fox exercises’). The writing cue we use to write the grapheme ‘x’ is ‘Hand to toe this way, hand to toe that way.’ The letter ‘y’ (‘Yank the yellow yo-yo’). The writing cue we use is ‘Down one string and way down the other’. The letter ‘z’ (‘Zip the zig zag zip’). The writing cue we use to write the grapheme ‘z’ is ‘Zig, zag, zig.’ We practiced writing the letters ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ using our magic fingers in the air, using pencils and whiteboard pens. We also practised saying the sounds in words with these letters and breaking words down e.g. f-o-x fox and zip z-i-p.

We have loved observing the caterpillars, watching them grow bigger and discussing changes and similarities that we noticed. All the caterpillars by the end of the week had grown lots and started to hang down from the lid. We noticed one had turned itself into a chrysalis.

This week we have also enjoyed using the playdough and combining different construction kits, loose parts and animals in our play.

Next week we will continue to observe the changes our caterpillars, chrysalis make, and look after our sunflower and bean plants. We are going to have a fruit theme and as part of this we will be exploring fruit, preparing and eating fruit salad. We will also be sending home ‘Wow moment slips’. Please can you complete these sharing achievements from home, ready for children to share with the rest of the class next week. The Wow slips could be to celebrate a skill that your child/children have achieved through practice and resilience e.g. Putting their own socks/shoes on, riding a bike etc. 

The Unicorn Class have worked together to fill up the kindness jar, as a class reward, on Tuesday the 5th May, your child may come to school wearing their pyjamas/own clothes