TUESDAY - Class trip to Coombes Farm, Lancing. Can the children please wear tracksuit bottoms/leggings, PE tshirt and school jumper/cardigan. They will need to have wellies to wear while we are at the farm and some shoes to change into for the afternoon back at school. Thank you. 

This week we are learning about the signs of Spring. On Tuesday we are going to Coombes Farm in Lancing, to see and meet some lambs, we will be looking out for signs of Spring while we are there and learning about the animals on the farm and what farmers do. We will also be going on a nature walk to see if we can draw and write names of flowers as well as planting some seeds in the nature garden. We will be looking closely at flowers this week and seeing if we can deconstruct flowers and put them back together and learning what the main parts of a plant are; Flower, stem. leaves and roots. We will also get a visit from the Spring fairy who will be writing us secret challenges to do all week. 

This week We will be exploring printing using rollers and string. 

In drawing club, we are reading the story 'Hansel and Gretel' We have the characters from the story in our small world, so the children can retell the story and we have a challenge to turn the dolls house into a house of sweets. We will be introducing new vocabulary using our "get up, stand up" words. These words are confectionary, wicked, double, swish, piercing and innocent. We will be drawing the witch, the witch's house of sweets, the witch wants to buy a new spider but she doesn't know which to choose, the pet spider likes biting people! What will it turn the teacher into if it bites them? We will use code words and sentences to make funny things happen. 

In phonics, this week we will be recapping the phase 3 sounds. We are also focusing on all the tricky words we have learnt so far. 

In maths, we will be making number bonds to 10 using Numicon, we will be looking at different arrangements of 10 and doubles.