Blog 13.09.24

Our story this week was ‘Super Snail’ by  Elys Dolan. A story about an ordinary slug by day and a fearless, shell-wearing Super Snail by night.  Kevin must prove his worth to the legendary League of Heroes - all with the power of slime! When disaster strikes and the Snail Signal shines, it's time for him to step up.  He discovers his true, slimy superpower and defeats the evil villain, Laser Pigeon.

Our Rainbow Challenges this week have been related to the story:

Writing – Nursery, write something that Super Snail might say and tell an adult what your writing says Reception, write something that Super Snail might say and use the sounds that you know in your writing

Drawing – Follow the instructions to draw a snail

Maths – Nursery, match the Numicon shapes on the snail to fill a shell Reception, Find the correct pieces of Numicon to fill a shell

Playdough – Nursery, make a playdough snail Reception, make a playdough snail and write a label with its name

Creative – Nursery, paint some spirals Reception, paint some spirals and talk about what colours you have made

Outside – Nursery, find some snails Reception, count the snails that we found

Funky Fingers – Nursery, put the sticky dots on the snail’s shell Reception, use two colours of the sticky dots to make a repeating pattern on the snail’s shell

All the Reception children completed all their Rainbow Challenges and their Gold Challenge - Well done!  What a brilliant start to the term.

In music this week we have been exploring vocal sounds and pitch and singing lots of songs.  We were really lucky to have Sam from NUFC teach us some games this week.  We did a great job of listening to his instructions.  On Tuesday afternoon Mrs Brealey comes into Starfish class and this week we learnt about different body parts.

We also picked some blackberries with Mrs Cotton and she helped us to make a delicious apple and blackberry pie!

Our RE theme this half term is ‘Being Special, where do we belong?’.  This week we looked at photos of our family and spoke about what makes us special.

Starfish star of the week was Lucy.  She has been super helpful and kind to the new children in our class.

Next week we will continue with our story ‘Super Snail’ by  Elys Dolan.