Poplar

We loved Christmas Jumper Day in Poplar. We really enjoyed looking at everyone’s jumpers, it made us feel very excited for Christmas!

I have been so impressed by Poplars sewing this week. They have been so careful and calm while creating their hand puppets, even when they got themselves in a muddle. I think they all look great!

We have been reading the book Meerkat Christmas. It is all about a meerkat who travels to find the perfect Christmas and he sends postcards to his family telling them what he has found. We wrote postcards to Sunny inviting … Continued

We have learnt lots of phase 3 sounds in one of our phonics groups in Poplar. We then chose a sound and looked through lots of our books to find as many words as we can that contained our focus … Continued

This term, we have been learning about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate bonfire/firework night. We have enjoyed learning lots of facts about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. Finally, we wrote diary entries, as if we were Guy Fawkes, … Continued

Poplar have been learning all about multiplication. We started by creating and counting equal groups of objects, then we explored arrays and how they are also made up of equal groups (rows and columns). Some of us created our own … Continued

Poplar have been learning all about an artist called Jackson Pollock. We explored some of the paintings he created and decided to create our own. We flicked, sprayed, dripped and rolled paint to create our own masterpiece!