Puffins

We are Puffins Class

Our class teachers are Mrs Gasson and Mrs Angelo. Our Learning Assistant is Mrs Porter. We look forward to sharing with you all the exciting things that happen in Puffins Class.

Click on the link below to see what we are learning about this term!

We have learnt how to join and sculpt with clay.  We used air dry clay to roll a tile.  By wetting the clay we made slip – a clay glue that can stick bits of clay together.  We joined clay to make the outline of a fish and then used different tools to add marks to represent the scales, fins, tails, eyes and bubbles.

Here is a useful link about clay; https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z63b8p3

In  Maths this week we are learning about time.  We have been learning how to read o’clock times…the long minute hand points at the 12 and the short hour hand tells us the hour.  Then we read the time…9 o’clock.  We made our own clocks and found out the numbers count in order around the clock in a clockwise movement.  Mrs Angelo showed us the times for when we do the register in Puffin class, our lunch time play begins and when we go home.  Can you remember which clock shows each of these times?

We have been learning about the animal group…amphibians.  These are a group of animals that live on land and water.  Just like birds and fish, amphibians are vertebrates and have a backbone.  They are cold blooded and have moist skin.  There are three types of amphibians; frogs and toads, salamanders and newts and caecilians.  We followed a draw along with Rob to draw our own frog and wrote some sentences about frogs as part of our whizzy writing time.

Harvest is a time when crops and food are gathered.  This can be at different times around the World as it is dependent on the climate and crops grown.  It is also a time where we give thanks for the food we are fortunate to have to eat.  We talked about the different foods we eat and those that are grown and harvested.  We looked closely at some fruit and vegetables and made our own Harvest baskets.  We enjoyed using different media and art techniques to make the food and baskets.  Can you see the fruit and vegetables we have chosen to put in our basket?

We had a very exciting visit from some African animals; a fat tailed gecko who can drop it’s tail off to protect itself from being eaten by predators; a ball python, a type of constrictor snake; a tortoise, a hissing cockroach, a giant snail, a meerkat and an Australian skink.  We learnt about their features and what they like to eat.  We found out some of these animals are nocturnal and can be classified as herbivores, carnivores or omnivores, based on what they eat.  We even got to handle and touch the animals if we wanted to!

In Science we are learning about the different animal groups.  We are learning about birds, fish and amphibians this half term…

Birds are vertebrates and warm blooded…just like us.  They have wings, feathers, two legs, claws, a beak and lay hard shelled eggs.  We have been looking closely at the features of birds and sketching the different parts.

Fish are also vertebrates and are adapted to live in water.  They have gills that help them breathe, fins that help them swim and scales that help them swim faster and also protect them from predators.  We followed a draw along with Rob to draw a pufferfish and used 2Simple to draw our own detailed picture of a fish.