Maple class - Spring 2, week 2
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 1:11pm
This week our focus has been looking at how sunflowers grow. We have read the book Little Sunflower and learnt that the bees take pollen from flower to flower so that new seeds can be made. We used magnifying glasses to look at the pollen in a daffodil. We planted our own sunflower seeds and made super observations – “this is the compost, that’s soil. The seed needs it to grow. They need sunshine too. I think we will need to water them because they have to have water.” We described our sunflower seeds as “black, hard, like a raindrop or petal shape”. We are all wondering how tall they will grow. We also looked at the seeds inside the snap peas at snack time.
We loved celebrating Holi in Forest School this week. We used coloured powder paints and our hands got very dirty! We even mixed some of the colours to make new ones and we created a colorful daisy!
In ukulele this week we did amazing music reading – well done Maple!
In RE this week we thought about why people receive palm crosses on palm Sunday. We looked at the map to find out where Palm Sunday took place. We learnt that people are given palm crosses on palm Sunday to remind people that people waved them and Jesus died on the cross.
We have really enjoyed playing board games this week, we all took turns brilliantly.
In Phonics this week we have learnt two new diagraphs – ‘ow’ as in cow, down, town and ‘oi’ as in oil, soil, coin. We have done more wonderful reading and writing this week, and are getting so much better at writing sentences and captions independently, thinking about capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops, ensuring we sound out all the words, and we use our spelling fingers to help us do this.
In maths we have compared numbers and ordered numbers to 10. We have also thought about the sequence of things and ordered life cycle of a sunflower, making observations of the pictures. We also sang songs and thought about the sequence of verses – we enjoyed singing ‘Theres a Tiny Caterpillar on a Leaf’ and even made up our own verse about the caterpillar emerging from their cocoon.
We all had such fun celebrating World Book Day. Our costumes were fabulous as were our story spoons – which we have kept to display in our classroom – we will return these at the end of term. Well done to BeaBea who won a voucher for her spoon creation. Mrs Duffey read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to us as she came dressed as a butterfly, and Mrs Cordell was a sunflower – based on the genre non-fiction books and our topic ‘how things grow’. In the afternoon we made up our own class story – taking turns to continue the story, we drew a class story map and thought about characters, settings, beginning, middle, end and words to describe things. We then had a go at creating our own mini books. We loved the sun being out and enjoyed lots of time in our garden – we have planted grass seed in the builders tray, so we can’t wait to watch that grow and turn it into lots of small worlds.
On Friday afternoon did PE and concentrated on ball skills – we looked at different balls used in different sports and then we went outside and moved balls in different ways.
Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week.
