Thomas Willingale School and Nursery
Summer Term 2024
Welcome to the Summer Term 2024
Weeks 1 and 2
15th to 26th April
Minibeasts
To finish our animal topic the children will be learning all about minibeasts. They will learn about different types of minibeasts and insects, describe their features and go hunting for them as they learn about their different habitats.
We read the story, 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.
The children used their imaginations to write a sentence about what a ladybird might be thinking.
In our mathematics lessons we have been sorting minibeasts by different criteria and number of legs and comparing lengths.
In expressive arts and design we have been painting our own minibeast pictures.
We read about the famous artist Matisse and how he used cut and ripped paper to create a collage. We read the story, 'Snail Trail' by Jo Saxton and then created our own collage snails in the style of Matisse.
We finished our animal and minibeast topic by visiting Hertfordshire Zoo and saw lots of different birds, reptiles, pets, farm animals, tigers, leopards, fish, monkeys and animatronic dinosaurs which leads us into our next topic which we start next week;
ALL ABOUT DINOSAURS!!