18 September 2025

Starfish

Another digger was at the beach this week.  A bigger digger!  We watched the digger and used our toy diggers to replicate what it was doing.  We were very excited to see a digger at the beach again!

Our story today was  ‘Snap!’ by Margaret Mayo.   There are lots of different sea creatures in the story and they all move in different ways.  When we had listened to the story we looked at some toy animals and matched them with the pictures in the book.  We then looked at pictures of the animals and wrote a list of what they were.

For our PE we moved in the different ways like the animals.  We snapped, danced, jumped, spun around, waddled, glided, floated, zig zagged, lolloped, waggled and dug.  After we had our snack we did some maths.  The Nursery children counted shells, stones and sticks into buckets and the Reception children practised their coin recognition by playing beach shops!

Before we went back to school we recapped our letter formation in the sand.

Puffins
 

What a lovely morning we had down at the beach.  The sun shone brightly and made us happy.  First of all, we had Worship by the Waves with the rest of the school, where we were continuing to look at our school values.  After worship we got straight on with our writing.  This week we were using our sense of hearing.  Fortunately, there was another bigger digger digging trenches this week so this proved popular for the basis of our sentences.  We could also hear the birds singing, the waves crashing and the children talking.  Next, we did some maths.  We all went on a stick hunt then brought them back to our circle.  The Year 1s ordered them using longer or shorter, then the year 2s checked them by measuring them in centimetres with a ruler.  We did the same activity but this time with seaweed.  We had some very short pieces and also some very long pieces!  We had a quick snack to give us some energy to complete our PE.  This week we were using the bean bags to score points.  We had to use our accurate throwing in order to land the beanbag in the hoop.  Everyone was opting for the 3-point hoop but kept missing because our throws weren’t as accurate as we would have liked.  We will continue to practise our accurate throwing!