Snowdrop Class

Welcome to Snowdrop Class

Snowdrop Class is made up of EYFS children. Mr Shipway is the class teacher. Mrs B (Monday - Thursday AM) and Mrs Elliott (Friday AM) are the classroom assistants, the class is also supported by Miss Gunter and Miss Carter.

Learning

EYFS Children will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework curriculum. The EYFS framework outlines seven areas of learning and development and educational programmes. There are three prime areas of learning, which are particularly important for your child’s development and future learning. There are four specific areas of learning, through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied. There are 17 ELGs your child is expected to achieve by the end of the EYFS.

PIRATES AND THE SEA

Our latest topic in Snowdrop Class is entitled 'Pirates and the Sea', we will be looking at different Pirates, labelling parts of a pirate ship as well as looking at what lives where in relation to the seaside. Keep your eyes peeled for our Pirate Ship to arrive in Snowdrop Class too!

Measure Measure Measure

We have enjoyed looking at measurement again in Snowdrop Class. After hearing the story 'Superworm' we then made our own 'worms' and talked about the length of them comparing the size of each of them and using the key words long and short, we even worked out who could throw a bean bag the longest distance...the winner was Mrs B!. We have also looked at height and time. When looking at time we made toast and participated in games seeing how many bean bags we could get in a hoop in a given time. The children enjoyed building towers with the crates outside and used the correct words to compare the height of them.

SUPERHERO WOW DAY!!

What a fantastic day we had! The children were awesome SUPERHEROS, we had fantastic costumes. We had a brilliant talking about the superheros we had come to school in and there even some superheroes that I didn't know! The children were also superb superheros when we all worked together to create some amazing superhero gingerbread men!

Snowdrop Superheroes

Well what can I say! We have been busy learning all about Superheroes, learning about the difference between Real Life Superheroes and Superheroes. Snowdrop class have talked about their favourite Superhero and what Real Life Superheros do, they even realised that Mr Shipway is a Suphero! The class have really enjoyed being imaginative too with our array of Superhero dressing up items, they have rolled played as Vets caring for the animals in our classroom and firemen and policemen rushing around our garden catching 'baddies' and putting out fires!

Easter

We have started learning about Easter, and how important this is for Christians. The children watched a video showing them a Easter Garden and what we might find in one and why all these objects are important. The children then went out side, collected some twigs and then we made our own stick crosses.

Holy Week

The children have been busy learning about a special week for Christians, Holy Week at Easter. Snowdrop Class have learnt about Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. We made palm leaves, ate hot cross buns, drew Easter garden pictures and participated in an Easter egg hunt in the garden. The children became aware of how eggs signify 'new life' and why they are given at Easter.

Outside Learning

Snowdrop Class, during their own learning time have really enjoyed being outside, reinforcing their learning on capacity earlier in the week. They have enjoyed the times on the balance bikes, making 'potions' and 'drinks' for each other in the garden. No matter what the weather Snowdrop Class get the opportunity to be outside.

Capacity

The children have really enjoyed reinforcing their learning on capacity. The enjoyed filled pots with different objects to see which one held the most, the children had to explain their findings and did this well. Outside the children explored capacity with the water, filling and emptying the containers using descriptive words such as: full, nearly full, half full, nearly empty and empty? 

Today is World Book Day!

We had a fantastic day in Snowdrop Class celebrating World Book Day! There were some brilliant costumes and we loved hearing all about the characters the children were dressed up as. The children completed some writing activities around the characters they were and drew themselves as their character. I wonder if you figure out who the characters are?

Comparing Mass and Balancing

What a fantastic week back after half term Snowdrop Class have had, we have been brilliant Mathematicians learning all about balancing! We used balance scales to find out what items were heavy or light and used the words heavier and lighter to compare each item. Snowdrop Class learnt that heavy objects will go down on a balance scales. I was really impressed with their learning outside when they made their own balance scales and investigated to see which items (and even people) were heavy and light.

We made predictions and even estimated how blocks it would take to balance our scales. The class watched a story called 'Who Sank the Boat' and they then continued this learning outside when they found items that floated or sunk and even tried to sink their own boats!

Children's Mental Health Week

We have really enjoyed our learning this week focussed around Children's Mental Health Week. We learnt about the theme, 'My Voice Matters' explored the importance of eSafety and how to use our tablets safely and securely, participated in some calming and slow breathing activities and even enjoyed using our our cuddly toys during these activities. We had a great time in the forest school area and we also enjoyed showing each other our 'special scarfs'.

Guess the Dinosaur

We have had a fantastic day of learning in Snowdrop Class, playing guess the dinosaur. We have reinforced our learning of questions and sentences and fact writing. The children wrote facts about dinosaurs and then we had to try and guess which dinosaur we had draw - can you guess which ones are hiding?

Dinosaur Painting...

We have been fantastic artists in Snowdrop Class, painting our favourite dinosaurs and even using the feet of dinosaurs to make some fantastic pieces of artwork too - are you impressed? we hope you are!

More Frozen Dinosaur...

The frozen dinosaurs have returned...the children again were excited to discover what we had in our garden. We spotted the dinosaurs had become frozen again and we needed to save them and get them out. We remembered our safety rules of wearing goggles when using the hammers and we worked together and listened well to each other demonstrating fantastic Amethyst, Diamond and Topaz Power to free them all! 

Free the Frozen Dinosaurs!

Well we have certainly been enjoying the cold weather! The children today were tasked with freeing the frozen dinosaurs outside as they were stuck in the ice! We talked about what ice was and how it changes and melts when it gets warm from the sun or heat. The children used hammers and other equipment to free the dinosaurs and really enjoyed their time in the garden with the ice...we also wondered if we might have frozen dinosaurs again tomorrow...

Special Places RE - Church Visit

Snowdrop Class have started to learn about Special Places in RE, we have talked about what our own special place could be and why it's special to use. The children have learnt about special places for Christians, a Church and talked about what items could be inside a church. We then went on a welly walk to our local church to identify these objects inside a church. Over the next few weeks start to look at special places for other religions too. 

STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!

Snowdrop Class have really enjoyed their start to the Spring Term, they showed fantastic Topaz Power working together to create our new role play area...Dinosaur Land, complete with a digging area, dinosaurs, volcano and different types of dinosaur books. This term we will look at different types of dinosaurs, create a brand new dinosaurs, explore dinosaur books and talk about the diets of dinosaurs.

Christmas Jumper Day

We had a fantastic time celebrating 'Christmas Jumper Day', there were some fabulous jumpers on show in Snowdrop Class.

CHRISTMAS IN SNOWDROP CLASS

Christmas has well and truly arrived in Snowdrop. The children helped the adults create Santa's Workshop and have really enjoyed being imaginative inside it.

We have also made Christingles ready for our Christingle service. We learnt about what the objects on a Christingle represent. The children have also been stars getting ready for our Christmas play, Whoops - a- Daisy - Angel.

Shapes, shapes, shapes

We have been busy learning all about different shapes, we found out the names of the flat shapes and even someone in the class told the children that there are other shapes we call fat shapes (3D shapes). The children named, identified and have started to describe the 2D / flat shapes with confidence, talking about how many sides, corners they have. We also went on a welly walk looking for shapes in the environment. The children were fantastic shape finders and even made some with the natural materials in the wood!

Children in Need

We were all  'Spotacular' on this day and had a fantastic learning day learning all about Children in Need and Pudsey and his friends and we even made some very yummy sprinkle biscuits!

SCARF - PSHE

Over the last few weeks we have been busy learning about 'Ourselves', thinking about how to be a 'good friend' and 'how we are feeling'. In addition to this we have also talked about who we can talk to if we are feeling sad and what our friends could do to cheer us up. In our recent lesson, where we talked about feelings we made 'glitter shakers'. The children were told that we can use these when we are feeling cross or upset and by shaking them it will help us calm down.  

DIWALI - 'Festival of Lights'

Snowdrop class have been busy learning all about 'Special Times / Events' in RE. Recently we have been exploring an important festival, Diwali, that is celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs all over the world.

We found out that these special event is also called 'The Festival of Lights', its lasts for 5 days and people light special lamps called 'diyas'. Snowdrop class made their own 'diya' lamps and decorated them with bright colours.

PATTERNS, PATTERNS, PATTERNS

Snowdrop class, have been very busy mathematicians learning and creating patterns. We identify patterns on our clothes, in our classroom and even made our own repeating patterns with objects inside and outside the classroom. The class also very much enjoyed creating repeating patterns with fruit too!

REMEMBRANCE DAY

We have been learning about Remembrance Day and what it means. We learned about why people wear poppies and why it is important to remember soldiers from the past and those fighting to keep their countries safe today!

Here are the poppy pictures we created, the children also really enjoyed creating poppies that they painted some in their own learning time too!

FIREWORK ART!

We very much enjoyed creating our pieces of firework art! We used cardboard tubes, bright colours and lots of glitter to make our pieces very bright like the fireworks we see in the sky. 

Pottery

We were very lucky today to have a potter to come into our school, in preparation for our ARTS week next week. The potter spent time with each class creating our new school signs and the children painted the signs ready to be 'fired' in the kiln.

Autumn Welly Walk

Snowdrop Class had a fantastic walk around Mells exploring the local area. We walked to the park where we found conkers in green spiky cases, we really enjoyed getting them open and counting and collecting them. The class even found walnuts and had fun climbing and exploring the new play equipment at the back.

Matching and Sorting

Snowdrop class have been busy children learning all about sorting, different 'sets' and how and why things match. Throughout our matching and making complete 'sets' the children have developed their one-to-one correspondence. During our sorting activities the children have talked about how they have sorted the objects and why objects go into the different groups.

Willow Making

The children really enjoyed the chance to create 'baskets' out of willow, there were some tricky instructions to follow but they were all amazing superstars.

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL

What a fantastic first week of school we have had! The children have settled into life in Snowdrop class so quickly. They have explored all areas of the classroom, they very much enjoy being outside in the garden. We have talked about how we might all be different but that's ok and started to explore how we are different from each other.