Elephants

Welcome to the Eager Elephants! 

                 

Welcome to your class page.
Here you can find out about some of the exciting things that we will be doing this term.
You will also find a list of books that we will be reading and sharing in school.

Autumn 1

Week 1 and Week 2

Introductions

Welcome to the start of our new school year.  In the first two weeks we will make lots of new friends and become familiar with the routines of the school day.  Our teachers will play games with us to see what we already know about numbers, shapes, sounds etc.  We will also have fun painting pictures of ourselves and making our class animals etc.

Week 3 

Owl Babies

We will read the story, act it out and make patterns on owls.  In mathematics we will be learning about flat shapes. In the afternoons, we'll learn about growing up from a baby to an adult and we will make owl pictures.

Week 4
 

Kipper's Toy Box

In literacy we will read and retell the story and play some phonics games. In mathematics we will be counting.  In the afternoons, we will draw the toys from the story, paint Kipper and make a sock thing puppet.

Week 5
 

Birthdays

In literacy, we will be talking about birthday parties and we'll make party invitations.  In mathematics we will be recognising numbers and counting.  In the afternoons, we will be getting ready to celebrate our class toys 5th birthday party.

Week 6
 

The Scarecrow who didn't scare

In literacy , we will retell the story and label our own scarecrows.  In mathematics, we will play games with the numicon shapes.  In the afternoon, we will learn about signs of Autumn and make a scarecrow.

Week 7 and 8

Oliver's Vegetables/ Harvest

We will read the story and write a list of vegetables.  We will also read and share Autumn stories.  In mathematics, we will be using the bucket balances to weigh food.  In the afternoons we'll make pumpkins, hedgehogs and we'll be practising our harvest songs ready for our Harvest festival.

Digital Classroom






We will use our digital classroom to explore and play with the Bee Bots, remote control cars, talking tins, microphones, phones, iPads etc.

We'll play some problem solving games on the Espresso computer site.