We will begin the half term with some very special visitors - our Hatching Eggs! The children will learn about the lifecycle of chickens with a very hands-on experience. The eggs will be delivered at the beginning of half term and will be with us for almost 2 weeks. In that time, the children wil ba ablwe to observe the eggs hatching and see how the chicks come out of their shells, watch as they grow rapidly in the first few days and then hopefully have the opportunity to carefully handle the chicks in the second week. The children will be learning about what the chicks need to grow and survive, and how we nurture and care after the chicks whilst they are with us.

Following this, the children will also learn about the lifecycle of butterflies through observing a live butterfly garden in class.

We will be reading the non-fiction book ‘Things with Wings’ that looks at lots of animals and minibeasts that have wings (not just butterflies!) and the children will be writing fact files about some of these animals.

For our fiction books, we will be reading at the brilliant story ‘There is no Dragon in this Story’ and the story of ‘Superworm’. The children will be looking at how the authors tell the story, they will be learning to retell the tales themselves using similar language.

In maths, we will be focussing on consolidating our counting skills with numbers up to 20, making sure the children have a thorough understanding of the odd and even numbers and the order they come in, and can use the numbers to count on and count back. We will be looking at simple addition and subtraction calculations using these counting skills.

The children will also be learning about doubling and halving numbers, and what it means to share numbers.