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
We are learning about the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Today we have used props to help us retell the story.
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 have been trying to get the animals out of the ice
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 did some observational drawings of daffodils using pastels.
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 we tried out the parachutes we made. We would like to try them out again at home.
This week is British Science Week. We have been taking part in daily experiments and focusing on describing what we observe. Today we created a water and oil mixture and used droppers to drop dye through it.
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!
This week we introduced our Jars of Kindness. We explored what does kindness look like? We each have our own jar to collect stars of kindness. A huge thankyou to Mr Briggs for donating the jars.
This week we have been reading the book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ we have been learning about different vegetables and naming and describing them
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.
This week we are reading The Gruffalo. Look at our class full of Gruffalos
We have been making recipes...
We have used props to retell the adventures of the little brown mouse.
We have made our own storybooks, here are some of our pages.
We have been retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs using a storymap.
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 visited some real pigs today. We found out that they like to bath in mud and they like to make tunnels under the straw in their house. Thank you Mrs Walker for letting us come over.
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.
We have been reading the story of The Hungry Caterpillar, learning about the life cycle of a butterfly and learning the days of the week.
We made our butterflies symmetrical by painting then folding our paper.
We made fruit kebabs and then tasted all the fruits to decide on our class favourite .
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.
As we have now entered the period of Advent, we are learning about the Advent Wreath.
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 enjoyed hot chocolate and a story around the fire pit today. We used the very best china cups!
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 printed rainbow fish using paint and bubble wrap
We caught fish using magnetic rods
We used felt tips to carefully colour the shapes on the silver foil, so they would shine.
This week we have been listening to the story of Elmer. This has helped us to focus on sorting by colour and size.
In RE we have been learning about how God is important and how Muslims whisper the Adhan in a baby’s ear
We used autumn leaves to make our own pictures.
We made our own class scarecrow
We have been using a storymap to retell The Gingerbread Man.
Thank you so very much to all our parents for joining us today to make our scarecrows during Family Learning, they look fantastic.
This week we have been learning about The Gingerbread Man. We have been finding ways to help him get across the river.
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.
We sang ‘ The Dingle Dangle Scarecrow ‘ in church for the Harvest Festival
With our upcoming Harvest Festival we have been thinking about farming and where our food comes from.
Our Bears
We shared the book ‘All are Welcome’ and talked about how we are all different and special.
Autumn 1 Letter for Parents about Curriculum content
We planted lots of bulbs in our outside area.
We have been building our hand strength and developing co-ordination through squeezing fruit to make juice and pouring it into bottles.
This week we have been sorting the numbers 1,2 and 3
We had our New Starters Service in church and Reverend Angus blessed our decorated pebbles. We then placed them in the school stream.
We have been learning how to build a wall for Humpty Dumpty
We have made gardens for Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
We have explored making and pouring cold tea using tea leaves, a tea pot and tea strainer. We are learning the rhyme ‘I’m a Little Teapot’
