Our new topic, blends and surprises! 

We have decided our new topic is going to be a mix of learning about buildings and vehicles. This week we have made our plan for our topic. We want to learn about castles and the people who live in them. As a class we have talked about different buildings and their purpose. For our role-play we want a Garage which we started to make today.

As well as buildings we also came up with some other things we wanted to learn about so we are going to have some stand alone themed days. Please make a note of the dates below.

We will be having…

A Superhero day on our last Monday of the school year-18th July. We will be able to come dressed as Superheros of our choice (made up or from the films). Then we will have Superhero activities all day.

On Tuesday 19th of July if the weather is good we would like a water fight in the afternoon!

Also as part of our topic we have decided we would like to make our own shop. So we are inviting all our family members to ‘Café Jonah’. We will open our Café for one afternoon, on Friday the 15th of July, please try and come that day we really want you all to come. 🙂 . We are going to make cakes, ice cream, ice lollies and other nice things for you to all come and buy. We will be waitresses and waiters. Our plan is to raise some money to spend on new toys for the classroom.

In phonics this week we have been practising the consonant blends at the beginning of words. 


Our topic story for the next few weeks is the traditional tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ . We have been watching the Disney version on YouTube, we love it! Disney’s Three Little Pigs

Miss Sherliker has been helping us to master our story telling skills. 

We have also been enjoying building our train tracks. Now it fits with our topic we want to get the train set out all the time.

We’ve also been using the diggers to move the soil about.

As for the surprise we can’t tell you what we’ve doing otherwise Daddies might find out. But here are a few clues…

Father’s Day afternoon – June 19th

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Reminder to all Dad’s, this Friday is Father’s afternoon. We are welcoming all the Dad’s to come and join us for the afternoon, to have some fun, maybe even a competition!

If Dad’s can not come then Granddad’s, uncles or brothers are allowed as substitutes as we do know it’s hard for Dad’s to get time off work.

We welcome you from 1.30pm onwards until the end of the day.

Fathers Afternoon

This afternoon we celebrated Fathers day by inviting our Dads into school for the afternoon.
We started with Pirate bingo had a drink and some fresh made brownies which we made this morning.
Then we had a competition. We had to make a junk Pirate ship in 45 minutes that could float and looked like a pirate ship. All the dads were very focused on their task!

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After 45 minutes we had to leave our ships to be judged by Mrs Armitt! So we went for a play on the adventure playground.

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Then we checked to see if our boats floated and found out who won the competition.

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The winner was Emily and her dad. 2nd place was Lucas for making his own boat. In 3rd place was Hannah and her dad.
Then we had choosing, story and show and tell.

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We all had a great afternoon.
Thank you to all the dads for coming today!

Father’s Afternoon Friday 14th June

Dear Dad’s you are invited to our classroom on Friday the 14th June for a Father’s day party!

We have got lots of things planned to do, including games with prizes! We might even do a bit of building and making. We would love it if as many Dad’s as possible could come to make it a really special day.

Miss Irwin will be sending a note home for you to fill in with a slip that you need to send back to school, so she knows who is coming.