Today we will introduce the children to a simple story about Superheroes - this is linked to Wilf’s question “How do superheroes web baddies?” We will read the story a couple of times so that the children have developed familiarity with it. We will talk about how the Superheroes caught the baddies - did they ‘web’ them? Next we will encourage the children to recall the story in sequence. We will talk about the beginning, middle and end of the story. Then using the notes we have made with the children we will work together to create a story mountain. When this is created we will ask the children to join us in retelling the story. Next we will show the children a range of instruments and explain that we are going to ‘read’ through the story again and decide on which instruments we should use at each section of the story (we will annotate this on our story mountains). Each child will have an instrument and will need to follow the story mountain to check when they need to play their instrument. As they play we will talk about how they need to play (loudly, quietly, fast or slow etc) - will use gesture to demonstrate this. At the end each group will perform the story to the other groups.

Today is all about Superheroes carrying out amazing deeds! (Thea asked “How do they climb mountains fast?” Tilly asked “How do they get on the roofs?” Reo and Bella asked “How do they climb up towers and walls?”). We will introduce the children to a group of ‘small world’ Superhero characters - we will ask them how many there are. Next we will show them a tower with a roof or a wall. Adults will model creating a simple story involving the groups of superheroes being split up and one or more characters climbing up to the top of the building ‘fast’. We will ask the children what they notice, how has the superhero group been split. We will talk about how many are at the top and how many at the bottom. Is there the same total number? We will then ask them to record what they can see in their own way (using the pinch and flick technique to hold the pen - we will also encourage use of an appropriate grip). We will then repeat this with a different quantity of superheroes or by splitting them in a different way. The children will also have the opportunity to explore splitting a group.

Luca asked “How can superheroes dive without hands flapping?” We will talk about how they think they manage this . Then we will ask the children to recall the story that we listened to yesterday about Chinese New Year and about how the animals dived into the river in the race. We will talk about how they had to control their bodies to be able to dive in. Next we will explain to the children that they need to show control of their bodies as they paint the animals from the story. We will look at pictures of each animal and the children can decide which of the twelve animals they would like to paint. We will remind them that they need to think of the colours that they need to use to paint their animal. The children will work in groups, for example, all the children painting tigers will work together. We will encourage them to paint an outline to represent their animal and to add detail to represent features. At the end we will watch a video clip about Lunar New Year celebrations

On Thursday we have our first Forest School session with Mrs Wells - this is the session postponed from last week. The children will need to wear welly boots or shoes that you don’t mind if they possibly get dirty. This week’s theme is Mouse’s House.

Friday

PE - The children will be changing for PE so please ensure that PE kits are in school. This term PE will be taught by Superstar sports. Today the focus of learning will be to explore different ways of using hands to move with a ball. The children will explore different ways of bouncing a ball. The children will continue to explore the meaning of the word, 'control,' and develop an understanding of why it is important to keep the ball close to them.