Maize Class
Welcome to Maize Class 2024 - 2025
Our teachers are Mrs Tidby, Mr Stanford and Mrs Bristow.
Letter about Reading Books and Early Reading
Words to practice reading at home - October 2024
Maize Class October half term homework task
Letter formations in line with phonics scheme
Words to practise at home December 2024
Spring Term 2025
Home Task - Wordsearch of Red Sight Words January 2025
Reading and writing at home update January 2025
Reading and spelling words at home update March 2025
Homework: Signs of Spring Treasure Hunt - find the items and tick them off and bring the sheet back into school
New Sight Words for Easter holidays
Parent Letter Summer 2025
New sight words to learn ahead of Year One
Today we held a Smeds and Smoos party. We had pink milk, black tea (blackcurrant squash), brown bread and raspberry or black cherry jelly.
We have been learning about The Smeds and the Smoos. Look at our lovely writing.
We have been reading The Selfish Crocodile. We have ordered pictures from the story, matched sentences to pictures and written our own speech bubbles for the mouse.
We took part in our first Milton Sports Day.
This week our story is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Today we went on our own sensory walk, feeling different textures with our feet!
Look at our lovely writing.
In RE we have been learning about how God created the world. This week we have been focusing on the plants. We have planted our own seeds, painted pictures on sunflowers and planted sunflowers in our garden.
We have made ladybirds and counted the spots, adding the spots on each side.
We have read the book 'What the ladybird Heard' and we have carried out a number of ladybird related activities including looking at number doubles.
We thoroughly enjoyed our family learning this week, here are some of the sea creatures we made.
We drew our special people and attached them with a string to a button.
This week we have been reading the book 'A handful of buttons' we have talked about the people joined to the invisible string from our heart.
We are learning the days or the week and about the words today, yesterday and tomorrow.
This week we have been learning about Kings and Queens. We made crowns and wrote instructions for how to make them. We also made castles from junk.
This week we are using the NSPCC Pantosaurus material as part of our PSHE sessions
Our Sealife Centre recounts.
We had a fantastic time at The Sealife Centre.
In RE we learnt about the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan, the celebration of brothers and sisters. Children give each other a rakhi ( bracelet) and wish each other health and protection.We made some bracelets for our siblings.
We matched words to pictures from the story then we read sentences from the story and matched them to the correct pictures.
This week we have been reading the text 'Julian is a mermaid' . We have loved using the dressing up clothes and are fascinated about the thought of a fish tail instead of feet!
Look at our beautiful writing.
Here are some of the beautiful Easter hats we made. Thank you to our wonderful families for helping us.
We have been reading the book Lost and Found. We talked about the penguin being lonely and what the word lonely means. We have also been exploring things that float and things that sink.
We listened to the Easter story and made an Easter garden.
We have been learning about the significance of the cross for Christians. We looked for crosses in the school, in the church and in our grounds. We made crosses using craft materials and made crosses with our bodies by holding our arms out to the side. We found out that the hot cross bun has a cross on the top that helps us to remember Jesus at Easter.
We tasted hot cross buns. Lily was glad that they were not hot and Charlie thought that we should rename them cold cross buns.
We have been reading Handa's Surprise. We have tasted different fruits, designed, made and evaluated our fruit kebabs and we have written instructions for making them.
Look at how our writing is improving.
We looked at the artwork by Wassily Kandinsky and then created our own versions.
This week our text has been 'The Great Explorer' We made a map of events in the story. The story is all about Tom's adventure to find his dad in the North Pole. We made our own scenes from the story.
In our story Tom had and explorer kit . He had to use a torch so we have been using torches to spy in the underground boxes and write down what we find.
It was Shrove Tuesday this week so we learnt all about pancakes and took part in pancake related tasks.
This week our text has been 'My Granny went to Market' In the book she flies around the world on a flying carpet. We have been learning to weave.
We have looked at the items Granny collected as she travelled around the world. Paper lanterns in China, drums from Africa and nesting dolls from Russia. We have thoroughly loved looking at the map and the globe to see where she travelled. We have also been planning our own adventures on a magic carpet!
Finally, we sat by the tree drinking Gruffalo Tea!
We completed an outdoor Gruffalo hunt. We had to find pictures and match them to words on our boards.
We have made our own storybooks, here are some of our pages.
We have discovered that there are lots of different books about The Three Little Pigs, with very subtle differences. If your child has a version that they want to bring in and share and you allow them to do so, please pencil their name inside and we will send it home again once we have read it.
We have been making houses for the three little pigs out of different materials.
We looked at the famous picture by artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the created our own versions.
This week we are exploring ways to make 7
We made house pictures from shapes.
On our first day back we have been spelling three and four letter words.
Christmas Holiday Homework Task
After Christmas we will be looking at the rhyme 'This is the house that Jack built'. Please can children bring in a picture of their house as part of our speaking and listening activities ( email if you prefer and we can print)
We made Santa plates
This morning we enjoyed our Christmas breakfast with Santa
The elves have been busy in their workshop wrapping presents.
This week we have been making repeating patterns with beads and paper chains.
During w/b 2nd December please send a baby picture of your child into school. We are learning about Jesus when he was a baby and exploring how we were all once a baby. Many Thanks
We have been retelling the story of Owl Babies. We have enjoyed making nests and lots of different owl crafts.
We loved learning about the story of Room on a Broom
We made poppies from multi link and using paper collage.
This week we read the book Clean Up. We learnt about how rubbish dropped in the environment can damage animals and fish. We have taken part in a number of activities to support our learning and made our own posters.
Today we took part in a hula hoop workshop, it was lots of fun!
This week we have been learning about The Rainbow Fish and how she shared her scales.
We used autumn leaves to make our own pictures.
We made our own Gingerbread Men
We have used careful tweezer skills to give him pom pom buttons and we've been thinking about speech bubbles and trying to write our own.
Autumn 1 Letter for Parents about Curriculum content
We have been building our hand strength and developing co-ordination through squeezing fruit to make juice and pouring it into bottles.
