Astley Class Blog

Who loves a puppet show? WE DO!

From the scary big bad wolf to the sweet three little pigs, we have been making puppets and putting on our very own puppet show. Not only did we make the puppets we also made the setting by creating a house of bricks, sticks and straw. It was fabulous!

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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…

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to Astley class blog. We started this week off with a wonderful walk down to the garden of EDEN to explore the season winter, armed with our wellington boots and warm coats we squelched through the mud and braved the cold wind. As we arrived at EDEN we set…

The festivities have well and truly begun!

Christmas has arrived in Astley class and we are having so much fun!!! Firstly, a huge well done and congratulations to all the children for being so fantastic in their Christmas Nativity ‘Stable Boy’. We are very proud of each and every one of them…

Has anyone seen Big Foot?

This week in Astley class we have been using our maths skills to measure the size of everyone’s feet. We had lots of ticklish giggles as we drew around everyone’s feet - which was lots of fun! Then with cubes we measured how long our feet are. Once everyone had stuck…

NEWSFLASH! Spiderman has been very mischievous this week

This week Astley class have joined forces with the police to try and find Spiderman! He has been spilling milk, putting our coats on the floor and ripping our paper, then he ran away, we couldn’t believe it! So, Astley Class detectives…

Want to be healthy?

Just ask Astley class and they’ll tell you how!

We are all feeling super fit this week after two full mornings riding balance bikes around the hall, some of us built up quite a bit of speed and we were all very hot and sweaty afterwards. Not only have we been exercising…

We have jumped straight into our new topic this week ‘Our Heroes’. We have very much enjoyed exploring our new role play area and dressing up as Spiderman and various other heroes.

This week we’ve been focusing on our real life hero’s fire-fighters and looking at how they help keep us…

We have somehow managed to reach the end of our first half term in the blink of an eye. I am so pleased with how Astley Class have settled into all the school routines; they have made a great start to their school life. So, as a reward for all their hard work we decide this Friday we would have an…

This week we have been talking about how we can make people feel welcome. We’ve had lots of great ideas such as; saying hello, waving and smiling =D so we are going to use these ideas and make sure everyone feels welcome in Astley class.

We also spoke about God and how he welcomes us into his…

What a busy week…

We have continued to learn all about the Naughty Bus this week, in the story he brushes his teeth (windows) before he goes to bed and we decided to find out why. We talked a lot about dental hygiene and all had a go at cleaning our teeth in school, it felt very strange! We…

The Naughty Bus

This week we have been reading all about the Naughty Bus who drives around London, amongst other places, everyone did a super job remembering all the different places he had visited. Alongside reading the book we thought we would make some of our own Naughty Buses, we used…