Finding out more about buildings

This week we received a letter from the 3 pigs! They asked for our help building a new house to keep them safe from the wolf.  We realised that we needed to find out some more about building materials and how to build a house.  So we set off to Hythe library to see what we could find out.

 

 

 We have already learned how to use non-fiction books, so we got straight down to work. We found out lots of useful information, which we drew or wrote about on our clipboards.  Learning to write comes in very useful these days!

 

The children were all beautifully behaved and were a credit to our school.

 

Back in the classroom, the builders continued to fix and mend.................................

 

 

 







...............and we got on with learning a new sound.  j is for jelly!

 



In forest schools, we have been thinking about animal homes.  We searched for hidden woodland creatures and had to think hard about where to look for them.

 

We managed to find them all! What a busy week!

 

 

 

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to school.  It sounds as though all our children had a super holiday.  We've had a busy three days.  We got straight back in the swing of phonics and learned two new sounds-h and b.  In maths, we looked at estimating, and talked about how builders estimate numbers and quantities before beginning a job. Friday was Healthy Hythe Day, and the children enjoyed finding out more about healthy foods and trying a variety of fruit...including some they hadn't all tried before, like pomegranate and dragon fruit.

 

We walked around the school grounds to look for different types of shelters and came across a mysterious pile of straw and three bowls.  We have yet to work out where they came from....

 

 

 

The children were excited to find a box of building equipment and tools, and have been busy fixing all manner of things in our classrooms.  If you would like our team of  builders to come to your house and carry out repairs, please ask your teacher for a quote.  

 



This is the yr new topic shelters