Cubs and Tigers Class

This week the Tigers and Cubs had a beach party. We played games and set up our own ice cream shop. It was such fun - and lovely to cool down as lots of us got very wet!

The Tigers and the Rising 5s enjoyed more number fun this week during the maths cafe on Tuesday morning. After listening to the story of Spinderella we were set different challenges to work out how many football boots were needed for teams of different animals. We made excellent use of various resources to help us solve the problems including counters, cubes and dienes.  On Wednesday the Tigers were learning all about telling the time. We learnt about how many minutes are in an hour and how many hours are in a day. The children made their own clocks with moving hands, which needed super scissor control, and also rolled play dough to make hands for the laminated clock faces. 

The Tigers have had a fabulous week learning about number bonds to 10, they worked together as a team completing a numicon number line representing their findings! The children were then able to solve number problems with the mats using this knowledge :)  The Rising 5’s have also spent time working together as a team completing a number line using the giant numicon outside. They then had great fun going on a scavenger hunt around the field, searching for items to match their number numicon. The children with smaller valued numbers took great delight in helping their friends find things for the larger numbers! One Cub even said, “I love days like this when we work together as a team!” :) 

We were joined by our friends from Sutton and Hickling on Tuesday for a Federation Day. We learnt all about life in Malawi, including stories, art and craft. We had a really enjoyable day and the sun shone. We were even lucky enough to share a picnic lunch as a Federation.

The children have really been challenging themselves this week, solving different maths problems using a wide range of resources. Some children have developed their division skills through sharing cones between 2 hoops (and even trying to share an odd number). Alongside this another group developed their counting and addition skills, finding out how many in total. Super work Tigers and Cubs!

Today we took our PE lesson outside as it was such a beautiful day. We started by running all around the edge of the field, and we all managed it :) Some of us even asked to go again!! We then played some circle games and finished by developing our climbing skills on the play equipment.

Today was World Book Day and we celebrated in style. Many of us dressed up as book characters and we looked absolutely fantastic! We joined with our friends in the Lions' Class and completed a carousel of activities based on what the ladybird heard. We drew maps, iced ladybird biscuits and even hunted for ladybirds!

What a busy week we had last week. The sun was shining which meant we wanted to spend lots and lots of lots of time outside. We explored the sand, rode our bikes and did crafts. Inside we have been busy creating scenery for a new performance - we have decided we'd like to act out 'The Pig's Knickers'. We have also been working hard with our phonics, lots of  us have been writing independently and practicing our letter formation. Super work Tiger and Cubs!

It is has been so lovely to see the sun come out this week and the Tigers and Cubs have made sure they have made the most of it. As Mrs Butcher quoted on Countryfile on Sunday "everything that can be done inside can also be done outside." We took our reading outside, developed our number skills, measured as well as looking at similarities and differences in the world around us!

This week we learnt all about the Chinese New Year. We read the story together and watched a film about a traditional Chinese New Year. In our free flow we role played a traditional Chinese New Years' dinner, played with noodles and dumplings in our messy tray and made paper and play dough dragons. Some of us even had a go at Chinese writing. We also went outside and had our own races just like in the story - it was such fun to see which animal came first.

We have had an amazing time this week learning lots about shape.We have made shapes with ourselves, which was tricky (getting our friends to listen sometimes wasn't easy!) We have used different types of equipment to make shapes and chose our equipment well as you can see. We used the camera to walk around school ,taking pictures of shapes and patterns we found around our school. During Forest school with Miss Cushion we managed to light a fire which was great fun, it kept us warm when we got a bit chilly and we made some great observations.,such as "The smoke blows that way because of the wind......"    "You need to use dry wood to make a fire...." "The fire makes a crackle sound if you listen carefully........... To end the week Mrs Gilbert arranged a special treat for us.....A SHOW! Greg put on a show called Cinderella.We laughed... and laughed ... and LAUGHED!!! Thank you Greg for our brilliant show and thank you to Mrs Gilbert for arranging it for

Some pictures to make you smile this week on our blog! We are so proud that as a school outdoor learning is at the core at what we do. Our richest and most inspiring learning experiences often come from when we are in our wonderful natural surroundings. It seems that word is getting around about our love of outdoor learning and we even had a visit from Countryfile this week! Watch this space to find out more!