What's been happening in Explorers.
Friday 6th July - Living Coasts Trip
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The Explorers had an amazing day at Living Coasts today. We saw the Otters and Seals being fed and we were able to feed the birds ourselves! The children loved seeing all the sea creatures and taking part in a workshop all about Penguins. Thank you again to FOBS for partly funding the cost of the trip, we had a great day out!
Monday 26th - Friday 30th June
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Well the children were very excited this week when the little caterpillars arrived! We can't wait to see them grow big and fat!
We continued to retell the story of 'The Hungry Caterpillar'. We used our story road to draw the key parts of the story and compose and write captions and sentences. As a class we enjoyed R being the caterpillar, telling the story with key actions and phrases.
We also created our own front covers to make our own story books. We learnt to fold the paper in half to make antenna.
In maths we have been exploring 'symmetry' in nature. In the woods we enjoyed exploring and creating symmetrical pictures, wrapped caterpillars and went on a scavenger hunt. Great problem solving and team work!
In phonics we have been using our digraph sounds and Phase 4 tricky words to say and write sentences using finger spaces and full stops. Just another bus week of learning!
Monday 18th - Friday 22nd June
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This week we have been reading the story of The Hungry Caterpillar and learning about caterpillars and butterflies. We went around the school on a leaf hunt and searched for caterpillars. We made our own creations with a butterfly theme and the children were inspired to write about butterflies too! We are looking forward to our own caterpillars arriving next week!
Monday 11th June - Friday 15th June
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We have been very healthy this week! The Explorers have enjoyed tasting different fruits and writing about them. We talked about the fruit we brought in from home and the children enjoyed sharing facts about their chosen fruit. We had fun following instructions and chopping fruit up to make a fruit salad. When eating the fruit salad one child said "Yum, better than chocolate!"
Monday 4th - Friday 8th June
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The Explorers enjoyed learning about World Ocean Day in assembly this week and talking about their sea creatures in show and tell! We thought about how we can look after the ocean by using less energy to reduce climate change and how we can recycle and reuse plastic products to reduce pollution in the ocean.
Monday 21st - Friday 25th May
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Well, what a fantastic week of learning! Lots of inspiration came from the Royal Wedding. The children loved acting out their own wedding, using instruments to create the music, designing cakes and sign and banner writing...the learning went on. It was great to see the turn taking, listening to others and sharing of ideas! Super Shareodactyls! Thank you for sharing your wedding photographs, it was great to listen to the children share experiences and customs, We were also were brilliant at asking questions to find out more!
The 'Bounce Off' was great fun. Thank you so much for all your fund raising.
In maths we have been learning about time. We used the timers and ipad to see if we could complete a course in 1 minute. We made clocks and read o'clock times too! Can you share your learning at home?
Monday 14th - Friday 18th May
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So far this week we have been busy in our outside area, cleaning, sorting and gardening. On Monday we had a package delivered from the Giant. We used our super phonic skills to read the words and follow the instructions to plant our beans. We also talked about what seeds need to grow. We used our Talk for Writing story map to start to learn the words and actions for the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Ask your child to show you their amazing story telling skills! Our problem solving skills have really started to develop, where we have been doubling and halving numbers, being super Solveosaurs!
Monday 7th - Friday 11th May
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We had fun in the water this week! The children were learning about capacity and investigating which container would hold the most water. Linked to our topic on 'changes' we were caring for our baby dolls and carefully bathing them.
Monday 30th April- Friday 4th May
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We were going on a bear hunt this week! We acted out the story and added our own actions. The children did some amazing writing when they retold the story from their storyboards. In PE we made our own obstacle course to go 'over', 'under' and 'through'. We carried on with our recycling topic by making our own collage people from recyclable materials, we even made a life size 'Michael Recycle' to add to our topic wall!
Monday 23rd - Friday 27th April
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We had great fun making our robots from recyclable materials. We linked our models to our maths by naming and describing the 3D shapes used. We also made 2D shape robot pictures. We learnt a recycling song with the Investigators and Adventures and filmed it to show in our Earth Day assembly. The children were inspired to make their own recycling pledges to help 'make a change'!
Monday 16th - Friday 20th April
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The Explorers have been enjoying the sunny weather this week with a lot of our learning taking place outside. The children challenged themselves on the Jungle Fun; they practised their throwing and catching skills; made number lines and used chalk to practise forming their letters correctly. If the sunny weather continues (fingers crossed) please ensure your child has sun factor applied before they come to school and bring in a sunhat. Thank you.
Monday 26th - Thursday 29th March
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We've had lots of fun making Easter crafts this week and learning all about Easter traditions. Thank you to those adults who were able to join us for our Play and Stay mornings on Monday and Tuesday, the children loved sharing their classroom with you! We hope you all have a lovely Easter break and we will see you back in school on Monday 16th April!
Monday 19th - Friday 23rd march
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We've had another busy week despite the snow day on Monday! The children loved taking part in Sport's Relief day on Thursday. The whole class ran several laps of the playground and took part in a penalty shootout. Some children even volunteered to take part in our Cartwheel Assembly too! Thank you so much for all your contributions to the cake sale on Friday and thank you to those of you who could make it to our curriculum celebration. The children loved showing their video and sharing a range of activities with their adults!
Monday 12th - Friday 16th March
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The Explorers have been practicing their doubling skills in maths this week. They made split pin ladybirds and doubled the spots to find a total. They also used ladybirds and ICT games to help them record their own doubling calculations. We had a couple of days where it really felt like Spring had sprung so we searched for signs of Spring and painted some lovely daffodils, before the Beast from the East struck again!
Monday 26th February - Friday 2nd March
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Measuring has been the skill focus this week! We started the week by learning and performing our 'Worm' poem, ready to share for WBD. We explored our environment for worms and even went on a hunt for pretend worms. We used our measuring and comparing skills to find which was longer and shorter. During 'Messy Maths' some of the children collected natural items to compare length and size. We were great Solvosaurs and used great maths language to explain our thinking!
Tuesday 20th - Friday 23rd February
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The children told us all about their half term break this week and then used their phonic skills to write short sentences about it. There was lots of independent writing taking place which was lovely to see! We were also thinking about healthy food and about making healthy choices at lunchtimes. We had fun singing our 'Days of the Week' and 'Months of the Year' songs and sorting ourselves into our birthday months! We also enjoyed a visit from the local family history group. They very kindly brought in a selection of old toys, games and books to share with us. Before their visit we planned our own questions for what we wanted to find out. It was very interesting to see how different the toys were... and no, they didn't have the internet to play games on!
Toy Party!
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The Explorers had a fun filled day today. After posting an invite to their toy last week we held a toy party which included playing games, dancing, icing biscuits and blowing up balloons! The children took photos of their friend and their toy and talked about their toys in small groups. Even Mr Kiloran brought his toy to the party!
Monday 5th February - Friday 9th February
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This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. Bananas had an invite to a New Year Party and he wanted us to find out what happens. We used books, the internet, music and pictures to research! Our role play has been transformed into a restaurant. We have enjoyed taking on roles as well as using chopsticks! In our mud kitchen we loved cutting and mixing the noodles to make creative dishes! In technology we have followed instructions to make lanterns. We even had fun trying to paint Chinese numerals!
We also explored how to keep safe on the internet and discussed how we should tell a grown up if there is something that we are unsure of or that upsets us. How do you keep safe at home?
Monday 29th January - Friday 2nd February
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Another busy week, full of fantastic learning! At the start of the week we used our phonic skills and tricky words to write invitations to our bears and toys. On Tuesday we had fun exploring our village and talking to members of the community, on our walk to the post office. We were fantastic at walking safely and following instructions. We have been writing words with our digraphs, ai, ee and or!
Monday 22nd January - Friday 26th January
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Despite the rain, we have had another full week of learning and fun! We enjoyed sharing our 'I can' photographs from home and celebrating what we can do now! Through the story of 'Noah's Ark' we have been matching and counting in twos. 'Addition' has been part of our daily routine! We have been learning to add two groups together to find a total. We have also been learning to record our ideas in pictures and symbols. Linked to literacy, we have been drawing, painting and labeling bears! In phonics we have learnt a new digraph 'ng' and have been revisiting writing words with the digraphs qu, sh and th.
Monday 15th - Friday 19th January
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We have been real Explorasaurs this week! On Monday we found some mysterious footprints on our window! Some children thought that they were not human prints as they were a different shape to ours. So we went on the internet to explore and compare. We discovered that they were more like a brown bear print! Devin thought that brown bears were only found in Canada, so we used google maps to find out more. Later in the day we had a video message from Mr Bear. He set us a challenge to help him make porridge. We were brilliant at using instructional words and actions to help follow the recipe. We had great fun making sticky porridge in the trug outside! How do you make your porridge?
Monday 8th - Friday 12th January
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We have continued to have fun with our 'Winter' theme this week. At the beginning of the week there was much excitement when we discovered (fake) snow in our outdoor area! Later in the week the children were determined to save the Superheroes as they had been frozen in ice by the Snow Queen! They used their problem solving skills and collaborated as a group to try and make the ice melt. We made salt dough and followed instructions to build our own snowmen we some lovely results! In PE we used percussion instruments to move as different types of winter weather. Next week we hope to continue practicing our sequence of dance movements and film the children dancing with their partner!
Wednesday 3rd - Friday 5th January
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Happy New Year and welcome back to all the Explorers! The children have really enjoyed being back as a class this week and it has been lovely to see how quickly they have settled back into our school routine. Our new School topic is "Lights, Camera, Action!" and we have used the video clips from the film 'Frozen' and 'The Snowman' to introduce our mini topic on 'Winter'. The children have enjoyed playing with our new Frozen castle and exploring all the new activities around the classroom. Rolling the balls into the cups and keeping score was a popular activity! On Thursday the windy weather prompted some children to make paper aeroplanes which they then had great fun trying to fly in the playground! The Explorers were excited to see their Buddies again and enjoyed reading with some of them again this week.
Pennywell Farm Visit 13th December
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The children had a fantastic trip to Pennywell Farm today, despite the wet weather! We enjoyed dressing up and taking part in a Nativity with real lambs, donkeys and llamas! The children were excited to visit Santa in his grotto and received a surprise gift. They rode on the 'Santa Express' and enjoyed a Christmas cookie and drink in the café. We even had the opportunity to have a cuddle with some cute piglets!
Monday 4th - Friday 8th December
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We had a festive week in the Explorers. The children were busy making cone shaped Santa hats for our maths focus of 3D shapes. They decorated huge cardboard boxes in our Santa's workshop and made Christmas cards and decorations! A highlight of the week was performing our story of 'The Christmas Star' with songs and actions, we hope you enjoyed watching it as much as the children enjoyed performing it!
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Monday 27th Nov - Friday 1st Dec
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Christmas has arrived in the Explorer's class! We have been busy getting ready for our Christmas performance, decorating the classroom and making a backdrop! We performed to KS1 today and the children were so confident, we felt very proud! We are really looking forward to performing 'The Christmas Star' again next week!
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Monday 20th - Friday 24th November
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Shapes, shapes everywhere! This week we have been exploring 2d shapes. The week started off by a fun forest school session taught by Year 5 and 6. We enjoyed working together as a team to create 2d shapes,we then used the shapes to create pictures. The older children were great at asking us questions to extend our learning and we were brilliant at helping them to name the 2d shapes! The fun and learning continued with a shape hunt around school. Have a look for shapes at home!
Children in Need
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The Explorers had a great end to the week with lots of activities for Children in Need. They enjoyed dancing with their teddies, painting Pudsey and making Pudsey puppets. Thank you for all your donations and for the hamper items for the Christmas Fair. We have also been busy learning our 'Christmas Star' story with actions and singing songs for our Christmas production!
Monday 13th - Friday 17th November
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The bears have arrived! This week we started to tell our story 'Peace at Last' through our story map. We came in after lunch to the sound of very loud snoring.....it was Mr Bear! He thought our classroom was a nice quiet place for him to sleep. He gave us a challenge to explore our school to find a quiet place for him to sleep. We used the ipads to record the different sounds. What did we find out? Some children said drinking tea and hot chocolate will help you to sleep, so they decided to make some for Mr Bear. We has lots of great discussions about how our grown ups make it! We have also had fun acting out and singing '5 Little Speckled frogs' and solving subtraction and 1 less problems.
Monday 13th - Friday 17th November
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The bears have arrived! This week we started to tell our story 'Peace at Last' through our story map. We came in after lunch to the sound of very loud snoring.....it was Mr Bear! He thought our classroom was a nice quiet place for him to sleep. He gave us a challenge to explore our school to find a quiet place for him to sleep. We used the ipads to record the different sounds. What did we find out? Some children said drinking tea and hot chocolate will help you to sleep, so they decided to make some for Mr Bear. We has lots of great discussions about how our grown ups make it! We have also had fun acting out and singing '5 Little Speckled frogs' and solving subtraction and 1 less problems.
Monday 6th - Friday 10th March
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What a busy week we've had this week! It started off with the amazing visit from the Sea king helicopter which the children loved and as a result they have been playing with helicopters all week! The visit from Dr McCann was also a highlight and the Explorers were inspired to make a range of snakes after hearing about tales of anaconda's and black mambas! We all wore hats on Thursday in memory of Mrs Jones and the children decide to also make their own paper hats. Today we learnt about Remembrance day and made poppies using a variety of materials! Phew, we hope the Explorers have a well earned rest this weekend!
Monday 30th - Friday 3rd November
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We had a surprise arrival in our class. We returned from lunch to find a that a witch had crash landed in our class and needed us to help write a new spell to mend her broom! Some children used the clues and found out it was the witch from the story of 'Room on a Broom'.
In our funky fingers time we wrapped wands, helping develop our muscles for writing. We used our phonic skills to write words and objects for our class spell. In maths we had fun using the language of 'more' and 'less' to compare how many eyeballs we could find!
Monday 16th - Friday 20th October
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Diwali time is here! This week we have been finding out about Diwali. We have been making cards, singing songs and creating Rangoli patterns. We have explored our school environment for patterns and created repeated patterns with everything! As it was very windy on Monday and our new sound was kkkk, we made some kites. Some children used their phonic skills to solve the reading challenge sent by the Evil Pea! Some of the children used the instruments to create sound patterns too. We looked at our challenge card and decided which challenge we would take, thinking about the learning skills we would need. Certainly lots of Tryatops today!
Monday 10th - Friday 13th October
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Harvest celebrations have started! We had fun peeling, chopping and mashing the vegetables for our Harvest soup! Thank you for your donations. Using the tools helps us to develop the muscles in our fingers for writing, and it is good fun too! We named and described the vegetables, some children even put them in order of size! The best part was pretending we were in a café, serving the soup to each other! We also read 'Supertato' but unfortunately the Evil Pea had visited our classroom and started to play tricks on us! He sent us some counting and word challenges, we worked together as a team to defeat him!! Imaginations were on fire! Some children decided to make puppets of Supertato and some children worked together as a team to make a hideout. We also had fun recording our Little Red Hen story to show in assembly. Ask your child to use their story map to tell you the story.
Monday 2nd - Friday 6th October
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Role play, story telling and singing have been the highlight of our week so far! We have continued to learn the words and actions for our story. A love of literacy is certainly growing! Some children enjoyed acting out the story in small groups, some children were interested in maps and wanted to create their own. Lots of great turn taking and sharing! Phonics has been fun, learning to form new letter sounds in the foam and paint and playing lots of word blending games too. We love active learning!
Monday 25th - Friday 29th
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The Shareodactlys have landed! This week we have been learning about sharing and taking in turns with our friends. We have been learning what good learners say and do. We were all brilliant Shareodactyls when we helped the farmer from our Little Red Hen story. We helped the sad farmer to keep the bread safe from the other animals. The Little Red Hen was so pleased that she sent us an email saying that we could eat the bread. We enjoyed sharing this as an afternoon snack! Has your child been a Shareodactyl at home?
Monday 18th - Friday 22nd
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The week has got off to a flying start! We are very proud at how independent the Explorers have been, carrying out their morning jobs in such a positive and calm way! During circle time we have been playing games to find out more about each other. We have enjoyed reading our story 'Pete the Cat' joining in with the repeated singing phrases! After our story we went on a hunt around school to explore our school environment.
Monday 11th - Friday 16th
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This week we have had fun getting to know all the Explorers. They enjoyed attending Singing assembly with their Buddies and receiving a merit each in Celebration assembly!
Monday 4th - Friday 8th September.
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We have been really pleased with how well the children have settled into their new class this week! The children have loved exploring their new class and making new friends. We have been busy getting to know all their interests so we can begin to include them in our continuous provision. Thank you to all those parents who have returned the 'All About me' booklets, we will enjoy looking through them with the children.
Monday 10th - Friday 14th July
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The Explorer's have had a busy week visiting their new classes during the transition days. The children really enjoyed their visits:
"I liked all the drawing!" - George
"I liked making new friends." - Hugo
"I liked colouring!" - Georgina
" I enjoyed writing the Superworm story." - Amber
Don't forget to dress up as a minibeast on Tuesday for our minibeast day!
Monday 3rd - Friday 7th July
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The Explorers had a great time on their trip to Stover Country Park on Thursday. The children had the chance to feed the ducks, swans and signets and then to hunt for minibeasts. We found tiny frogs, millipedes, slugs, beetles and even a newt! The children loved the pond dipping and discovered a range of creatures in the pond. A big thank you to our park ranger, Del, to all the parents who offered to help and to those that came on the trip.
Monday 26th - Friday 30th June
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This week we have had fun exploring symmetry. We went on a hunt to find symmetrical objects. We created symmetrical pictures on the computer and worked with our learning partners to create symmetrical patterns.
Monday 19th - Friday 23rd June
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The children loved our visit from Shaldon Zoo on Wednesday and gained hands on experience with hissing cockroaches, giant snails and stick insects!
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our curriculum celebration of 'The Great Outdoors'. As always the children loved showing their adults around the classroom and carrying out a range of activities with them!
Monday 12th - Friday 16th June
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The children had an amazing time at the village festival this week. They had lots of craft activities to keep them busy such as making tea light holders from jam jars, making collages of themselves and making paper flowers and string balls! They also enjoyed making wishes to hang from a tree and planting their own plants. We want to say a huge thank you to all the adults who were involved in all the activities and making it such fun for the children. We hope you all continue to have a great weekend at the village festival, the sun is certainly shining for you! Happy Father's day for Sunday we hope you enjoy the cards (in book bags) as much as the children enjoyed making them!
Monday 5th - Friday 9th June
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What a busy start to the half term! The Explorers have begun their new topic about Minibeasts. They have enjoyed drawing them on the computer, making them with junk modelling materials, sorting them according to the number of legs and learning about number bonds to 10 using ladybirds and other caterpillars!
Well done to all the Explorers for taking part in their first sports day on Wednesday!
The Explorers also enjoyed voting for their school prime minister on Thursday.
Monday 22nd - Friday 26th May
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It has all been about collaboration in the Explorer's class this week! The children have worked really well together when role playing, building models and making music. They were really keen to dress up and dance to music and ended up setting up their own version of Britain's Got Talent! We are setting up our role play as an area where they can continue to develop these interests next half term.....We are stars, watch us shine! We hope you have a relaxing half term break, fingers crossed this lovely weather continues!
Monday 15th - Friday 19th May
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We have had fun measuring and weighing this week and solving problems! We've also been learning about 2D and 3D shapes and the children have loved building their own creations with 3D blocks both inside and outside the classroom.
The children collaborated to draw some lovely pictures of the giant form our Jack and the Beanstalk story. We planted out the rest of our bean plants, lets hope they don't get eaten like the first ones we planted!
Monday 8th - Friday 12th May
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The Explorers have been busy planting out their bean plants as they are growing to big for their pots!
We are really pleased with how hard the Explorers have been trying with their writing both inside and outside the classroom!
In PE the children have really enjoyed practicing a series of rolls (log roll, egg roll and forward roll) and it has been great to see their confidence and control progress over the half term.
Monday 1st - Friday 5th May
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The Explorers have enjoyed getting messy and colour mixing with paints and foam this week. They have been excitedly watching their bean plants grow, the tallest one was 25cm on Thursday then it grew 5cm over night....the children are hoping for a giant beanstalk by Monday! The Explorers always love spending time with the older children and on Thursday the year 6 buddies came down to share stories with us in the sunshine!
Monday 24th - Friday 28th April
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The Explorers have had another busy week. In Literacy we have been learning to retell the first part of Jack and the Beanstalk using actions! In maths we have been grouping objects in 2s,5s and 10s and recognising and ordering numbers to 20. The children had fun making their own clocks to practice reading o'clock times. A highlight of the week was having Kip in on Thursday to teach a music session, the children loved learning a new song and playing a range of instruments. Following on from the Forest School day last week the children were keen to make their own forest friends from sticks, many are on display in the classroom. The children were excited to see the first signs of growth from their bean plants, we are hoping to see even more changes over the long weekend! We hope you have a great Bank Holiday weekend and we'll see you back in school on Tuesday!
Monday 17th - Friday 21st April
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Welcome back! We hope you all had a great Easter. The children have been keen to tell us about their Easter activities (and how many chocolate eggs they have eaten!) Thank you to those parents who have already sent in their WOW slips to tell us about how you celebrated Easter, please keep them coming in, we love to hear about the children's interests at home.
We have certainly embraced our new topic 'The Great Outdoors' this week. The children were excited to receive a letter and a box of beans from the Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. We have planted the beans and some giant sunflowers and the children are keen to see the first signs of growth.
The highlight of the week was our Forest School day on Thursday. We had a fun filled day packed with a range of outdoor activities. The children all had the opportunity to use a palm drill and bow saw to make their own necklaces. They loved hammering wooden pegs to make dens and a large maze. A particular highlight was using pulleys to send soft toy woodland creatures, in baskets, up into trees and along a zip wire!
We would like to say a huge thank you to FOBS for all their help and hard work in clearing the areas for the forest school and also to the Forest School Leaders, Marijke and Lizz, for planning all the great activities. The Explorers loved the experience and can't wait to do it again!
Monday 27th - Friday 31st March
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We've had a brilliant end to the term with lots of Easter activities going on. The children have enjoyed retelling and writing about the Easter story; painting their own eggs; balancing, counting and sorting a range of eggs and making their own Easter cakes! We hope you have lovely Easter break and look forward to seeing you back at school in April.
Monday 20th - Friday 24th March
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Thank you to all the adults that were able to join us on Monday for our curriculum celebration. The children loved having you in the class to help them with their activities and to share their learning! The Explorers were keen to build and make things this week. We had boats made from junk modelling, Easter animals made from paper and lots of construction with the wooden blocks. A highlight was the building of an 'ark' which led to most of the class singing along and playing instruments to 'The Animals went in two by Two'! The Explorers had great fun on Red Nose day and they really enjoyed their fun run, Billy C ran an impressive 23 laps, closely followed by George at 22! Thank you to everyone who filled out a sponsor form or donated a pound for non uniform!
Monday 13th - Friday 17th March
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The Explorers had a brilliant start to the week with their buddies decorating cakes for the Bishop Bake off! It was also a sad week as we said goodbye to Mrs Gordon and we wish her all the best on her travels around Australia. As a leaving gift Mrs Gordon gave the Explorers a new 'Harry the monkey' who's job is to continue visiting the children's homes at the weekends! The children had great fun getting messy while making their own gloop. We explored the school grounds looking for signs of spring and the children learnt all about baby animals. The Explorers have been awarded the tidiest cloakroom twice this term and so we made our own posters to tell the rest of the school our top tips!
Monday 6th - Friday 10th March
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Spring has Sprung in the Explorers! The children enjoyed a range of outdoor activities in the latter part of the week. The children loved chalking on the outdoor easel and using the paint brushes and water to 'paint' the fences. Building dens, planting flowers and exploring the new dinosaur small world all kept us busy in the lovely spring weather!
Monday 27th February - Friday 3rd March
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What a busy week we've had in the Explorers! First we celebrated Shrove Tuesday by tasting pancakes and holding pancake races in our House teams. On Wednesday we made Welsh flags for St David's day and in the afternoon a visit form Dee the vet prompted lots of questions from the children about the role of a vet. Then on Thursday we all had great fun dressing up in our pyjamas for World Book Day. From the story 'The Day the Crayon's Quit' we answered the letter from the purple crayon which had asked it's owner to stay inside the lines when colouring. The children all coloured in patchwork squares which we then stuck together to make Elmer the Elephant. Briana won our colouring completion for staying inside the lines the most!
Monday 21st - Friday 24th February
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Welcome back! We hope you had a fun filled half term break. This week we introduced our new Vets role play as a starting point for the children to explore how to care for animals. We also began to investigate different materials with a focus on natural materials.
In mathematics we have continued to practice counting, recognising and ordering numbers from 1 to 20. We have also use everyday language to talk about money, compare amounts and solve problems.
In phonics we will continue to learn our phase 3 letter sounds, digraphs and words. Every time we learn a new letter sound or digraph a sheet to practice the sound will be sent home. The 'Phonics Play' website has a range of fun games to practice the phonics we teach.
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Play and Stay - 2nd February
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It was lovely to have so many adults join us for play and stay. The children loved showing their adults around the classroom activities and demonstrating their skills! Thank you!
Chinese New Year
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The Explorer's have enjoyed finding out about how the Chinese new year is celebrated. We have made our own Chinese restaurant where we have practiced using chopsticks, the children also enjoyed tasting real noodles! The children have really persevered to paint the Chinese numerals to 10. We have learnt the story of 'The Great Race' about how the Chinese years were named and in PE we have created our own Dragon dances!
Week beginning 23rd January
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This week the Explorer's have been using the Noah's Ark to help them to add 2 groups of animals together to find a total. We have also been using the animals, pairs of socks and threading beads to practice counting in twos!
Week beginning 9th January
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Our School Councillors, George and Boe, took part in a tasting session this week. They enjoyed tasting fish with vinegar and fish with lemon and talking about which flavour they preferred!
January 2017
admin on: What's been happening in Explorers.
Happy new year! The Explorers have already started exploring their new topic based around animals! The children have been using a cd player to listen to and identify animal noises. They have been working as a team to make a large jungle jigsaw and careful colouring and cutting to make collages for our jungle display.
Our new topic has inspired some children to draw and label animals in our new Jungle hideout. Other children have been practicing their estimating and counting skills while making long 'snakes' from cubes!
