Spring 2026
Spring WeeK 6 - Delightful Dinosaurs and Amazing Assemblies
Our final week of delightful dinosaurs...
We worked on our new short 'oo' and long 'oo' sounds with the rest of our previous Set 2 sounds ready for our RWinc check up for this term. We continued our Red RWInc reading as well as getting really good at our 'Super Seven' words for our core book 'Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones'.
In maths, we did a bit of measure comparing length, height and even sorting time with a bit of ordering too for some sandwich making!
We enjoyed lots of assemblies this week including one from Ignite for 'Open the Book', a special day for Internet Safety Day and one all about being kind to ourselves and to each other for Children's Mental Health week. This inspired lots of activities for valentines including making cards and heart charms to share our kindness and help us feel good. Then best of all, we did our own assembly for the whole school and families. We were so good - learnt so many lines, facts and had fun art and songs to show and perform. We did ourselves proud performing it, it is such a brave thing to do.
We have been learning about time and sequencing events in time order. We made jam sandwiches and talked about the order we needed to do things then enjoyed our sandwiches at snack time!
We loved making volcanoes as our final thinking and learning about dinosaur extinction to end the topic.
Then with a bit more music, RE, Understanding the World, reading buddies... it really was a busy end to the term!
Have a good rest Alnwick Castle Class!
We worked on our new short 'oo' and long 'oo' sounds with the rest of our previous Set 2 sounds ready for our RWinc check up for this term. We continued our Red RWInc reading as well as getting really good at our 'Super Seven' words for our core book 'Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones'.
In maths, we did a bit of measure comparing length, height and even sorting time with a bit of ordering too for some sandwich making!
We enjoyed lots of assemblies this week including one from Ignite for 'Open the Book', a special day for Internet Safety Day and one all about being kind to ourselves and to each other for Children's Mental Health week. This inspired lots of activities for valentines including making cards and heart charms to share our kindness and help us feel good. Then best of all, we did our own assembly for the whole school and families. We were so good - learnt so many lines, facts and had fun art and songs to show and perform. We did ourselves proud performing it, it is such a brave thing to do.
We have been learning about time and sequencing events in time order. We made jam sandwiches and talked about the order we needed to do things then enjoyed our sandwiches at snack time!
We loved making volcanoes as our final thinking and learning about dinosaur extinction to end the topic.
Then with a bit more music, RE, Understanding the World, reading buddies... it really was a busy end to the term!
Have a good rest Alnwick Castle Class!
Spring Week 5 - Fantastic Fossils
This week we have continued our super reading, developing recall and fluency as well as more Set 2 sounds 'igh' and 'ow'. We have enjoyed our new book 'Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones', which has inspired some more great writing in Drawing Club too as we thought about the paleontology work and connections with Mary Anning.
In maths, we have been looking at odds and evens, doubles and have been investigating to recognise and to begin to learn our doubles, including a double rap!
In our topic, we have looked at ammonites, fossils and pterodactyls. It was great to make our own fossil examples in forest school. We have enjoyed learning parts, stories and songs for our assembly and are looking forward to showing you next week!
In maths, we have been looking at odds and evens, doubles and have been investigating to recognise and to begin to learn our doubles, including a double rap!
In our topic, we have looked at ammonites, fossils and pterodactyls. It was great to make our own fossil examples in forest school. We have enjoyed learning parts, stories and songs for our assembly and are looking forward to showing you next week!
Spring Week 4 - Stormy Swamps
This week we have continued our super reading and very excitedly begun some Set 2 RWInc sounds 'ay' and 'ee' which we have already started incorporating in our writing. We have been thinking about a dinosaur party which then inspired us to make our own dinosaur party. We created games, made a feast, set activities and decorations, made labels for everything and then loved playing at all these activities taking turns.
In maths we ahve been thinking about our numbers again and looking really at depth. For example, that 7 is made on the 10s frame as a 5 + 2. We have been trying to speed at our recall of 'seeing' this and making numbers which has helped us with 'more and less'. You could play games with a two sets of dice and see how quickly you can identify and make these numbers if you would like extra practise at home.
In our topic, we have loved learning about Spinosaurus, learning about his environment and features. It has given us an opportunity to recap facts about carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and even paleontologists. We loved finishing our 3D dinosaurs and adding lots of extra bits for our assembly too.
In maths we ahve been thinking about our numbers again and looking really at depth. For example, that 7 is made on the 10s frame as a 5 + 2. We have been trying to speed at our recall of 'seeing' this and making numbers which has helped us with 'more and less'. You could play games with a two sets of dice and see how quickly you can identify and make these numbers if you would like extra practise at home.
In our topic, we have loved learning about Spinosaurus, learning about his environment and features. It has given us an opportunity to recap facts about carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and even paleontologists. We loved finishing our 3D dinosaurs and adding lots of extra bits for our assembly too.
Spring Week 3 - Dinosaurs Galore
It has been another busy week. We are working really hard on our reading and have continued to write some super dinosaur writing too. In maths, we have been working on measure and doing some super weighing with our dinosaurs finding heavier and lighter using the balance scales. We have loved making 3D dinosaurs out of clay and wowed everyone with our modelling skills and how unique each one is. We are looking forward to showing you them in our assembly in a few weeks times. Then forest school has provided much excitement as we discovered some 'dinosaur poo'. We knew that since it was 'prehistoric' it was safe for us to experiment with and we used our scientific skills to investigate. We revealed that some of them were carnivores and some herbivores by the contents! So lots of dinosaur fun galore continues.
Spring Week 2 - Dino times really begins..
This week we have really been getting into a super RWInc Red Book reading, continued to work on our maths number work of finding 'one more' and 'one less' as well as recapping our number friends - the numbers that make 5 and become super independent at beginning the day with our morning jobs like handwriting practise and 'Rainbow Challenges'. We enjoyed Ignite coming to visit for our 'Open the Book' assembly and then of course there has been lots of dinosaur learning. Our Dinosaur topic has enabled us to think about the history of dinosaurs, how things were different in the past, what life was like and how it has changed over time. We have used dinosaurs to explore and experiment with Paleoart and John Martin and loved making our own versions. Our dinosaurs also escaped to the forest so we had to order them and find 'one more' and 'one less' to pass the challenge. We had some dinosaurs frozen so had to help rescue them and have enjoyed lots of play to learn challenges throughout the week too.
Spring Week 1 - A snowy start
What a way to begin a new Spring term with so much snow. We spent lots of the day taking our learning outside from shape recapping, snowball counting and sorting and even beginning our new dinosaur topic by looking at prints in the snow. It was was also a great way to work on our independent skills of dressing and undressing with all our outdoor gear as well as enjoying the outdoor season!
We have then continued the week with 'wowing' everyone with all the sounds we can remember, beginning our new Red Read Write Inc Reading Books and writing about our holiday news. We have begun our dinosaur topic finding out what we already know and what we would like to find out about and reading lots of dinosaur stories including our Core Book - Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Strickland.
There is going to be so much fun, Alnwick Castle Class - A great way to begin the new term.