Astley Class Blog

This week Astley class went on a school trip to Martin Mere. Over the past few weeks we have been learning all about Minibeasts so we decided to go to Martin Mere to put all our knowledge to good use and find some Minibeasts, and to find out even more about them

So, our trip started with coach…

Fly little butterflies, fly, fly, fly

This week our caterpillars fully transformed into beautiful butterflies, it was amazing watching them emerge from their chrysalis and flutter around their net whilst we gave them flowers and apples to eat. As much as we loved having our butterflies in class…

Changes are taking place =D

It has been wonderfully exciting this week watching our caterpillars grow and change. At the moment they are in their cocoon/chrysalis going through an incredible change. We have been researching butterflies this week and we noticed that their wings had lots of…

The sun has got it’s hat on hip, hip, hip hurray!!

What a lovely week we have had enjoying the rare British sunshine. Long may it continue…

We started our week with a visit to church to look at the beautiful Easter garden and discuss the good news we received on Easter Sunday as ‘Good News’…

There is something wriggling in our classroom…

Welcome back after the Easter holiday, I hope you’ve all had a relaxing break. This week in Astley class we have started our new topic… Minibeasts!

We have started by reading the story the very hungry caterpillar and we can’t believe how…

Goodbye ducklings, have fun at the farm….

This week we have all grown incredibly close to our beautiful ducklings, we have cared for them by making sure they have enough food and water, we have looked after them by cleaning out their very messy box and we have kept them clean by letting them…

6 little ducks started hatching one day…

There has been so much excitement in Astley Class this week as we awaited the arrival of our beautiful baby ducklings. The fun began on Monday morning as the eggs were brought to us in an incubator to keep them warm. On Tuesday we started to notice…

World Book Day Bonanza!

WOW! Once again I was blown away by all the effort that went into the fantastic costumes for World Book Day, everyone looked brilliant! We had such a fun day, we designed and made our own bookmarks, discussed what our favourite books are and importantly why they are our…

Welcome back everyone!

As I’m sure you’ve all read on our newsletter we will be looking after some baby duckling in a few weeks’ time, so have started to prepare for their arrival. This week we went for a beautiful, sunny walk down to the Garden of Eden where we began collecting materials…

How can we describe a brick? ‘It is a cuboid’ WOW!

This week we have been continuing to explore the story of The Three Little Pigs by creating story maps, sequencing images from the story and re-telling the story using our talk 4 write actions. We have also been investigating and describing the…

How do you like your pancakes? We like ours with lots of chocolate!!

To celebrate Shrove Tuesday Astley class started the week by writing instructions that explained how we make pancakes. After all that writing we thought we deserved a treat and went to make our very own pancakes which we…

Germs, what germs? I can’t see them!

This week Astley class discovered that even though we may not be able to see germs they are all around us and spread very easily. We investigated this using glitter, one child put their hand in the glitter and we pretended the glitter was lots of germs.…