Hummingbirds Class

We started school in September and love being in Hummingbird class. Everyday we ‘Busy Bee’ with our friends. Some of our favourite activities are…

The weather has been kind to us so we have explored our garden, enjoyed being in the playground and worked hard at our daily Springfield Stride.

We have snack and milk every day in the shared area, lunch in the hall and love our weekly yoga sessions.

Everyday at 1pm the whole school do Whizzy Writing. In Hummingbird class we are making our hands and fingers strong so we can hold our pens and scissors correctly. Some of the activities we have done so far are…

Every day we take part in our phonics lessons. Fred the Frog helps us learn our new sounds. He helps us learn the ditty which helps us write the sound, remembering where to start each letter and how the letter is formed. We are very excited that now we are able to read and write some words using the sounds that we know!

We have read the book The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. We use this book to help us identify our emotions and, in turn, manage our feelings in a healthy way. We have a Colour Monster display in our classroom that we can use to share how we are feeling.

Every week we have our P.E. lessons which are complimented by planned and structured gross motor skills in the garden. Our P.E. lessons are lots of fun.

We love books in Hummingbird class! We really enjoy our regular ‘Reading with Friends’ sessions. We get to share our favourite books with our friends from other classes throughout the school. We really look forward to these sessions.

We are very creative in Hummingbirds class and enjoy a range of different art activities. We really loved painting our own self-portraits. We used mirrors to look carefully at our faces, identifying the different features, colours and shapes. We mixed our own paint, and used pastel and pen to add detail. We think they are amazing.

We made beautiful Autumn Tree artwork, using our anti-clockwise and vertical formation that we use in our writing. Repeating these shapes has helped our fingers learn the moves for writing our letters the right way.

Please click on the link below to see what we will be learning about this term.