Hatchmere's Class Blog 6.5.22

Date: 6th May 2022 @ 3:00pm

The sunshine is coming!

Before we begin the blog can we please ask all adults at home to ensure their child has a NAMED hat in their book bags, alongside some sunscreen to use on warmer days. Practice applying the sunscreen with your child as we cannot physically support them with this. Our children spend a lot of their time outside and we would like them to keep them as comfortable and safe as possible as they play and learn. 

We have been fact finders this week and now know lots of information about bears! Hatchmere were inspired by our class text of 'Silly Doggy' and have thought of some questions that they would like to know about bears. They then set about using non-fiction books to find the answers. Did you know that bears can swim? Or that some bears are very good climbers?

Hatchmere have enjoyed looking more closely at the rhyme 5 Little Monkeys to help to learn our number bonds to 5. We have thoroughly enjoyed pulling apart numbers and peering inside them. Numbers are so interesting. This week the children have been challenged to independently show an odd and an even number AND explain their reasoning. Yet again the children have beaten their time on their whole class number line to 20 and are now at 31 seconds....hmmm, I think I am going to have to make it a little trickier!

The children have been introduced to 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' which many were already familiar with. We are excited to memorise the rhyme alongside the actions and turn it into some performance poetry!

Today, we have had a very important visitor to Hatchmere. The Mayor of Winsford (a former pupil of OSJ) had a guided tour around our fabulous school with a special stop off at our classroom to chat about our recent issues with 'visitors', the wonderful community response and of course to meet our gorgeous Hatchmerians who had some very thoughtful questions for him; 'Who decided that you would be Mayor?', 'What is the job of the Mayor?', 'What is your favourite thing about Winsford?', 'Is your necklace real gold?'. We were very honoured (but not surprised) to be told that this was one of Cllr Pardoe's most enjoyable visits.

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