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Being inspired from our Post Man visit, we decided to write our own letters.

We chose who we wanted to address our letters to and then thought of something we really wanted to tell them.
We then used our Phonics knowledge to segment words and write the graphemes down. 
We popped them in an…

Our new topic is People Who Help Us.

This week we had a Postman come to visit who helped answer all our questions about mailing parcels, how letters go to different countries and what happens if you forget to put a stamp on your letter after you put it in the post box.

We then used this as…

Today our butterflies hatched out of their cocoons and began flying.

We have looked after our caterpillars for the last 3 weeks, watching them eat and grow.
We watched them spin themselves into a cocoons to begin the chrysalis stage of their life cycle.

We have learnt about their life…

To conclude our Minibeast topic we hosted a Bug Ball.
Writing invitations to all of our class friends and dressing up as our favourite insect. 

Great work on rivers by our Year 5 children. Well done.

During our Minibeast topic we looked after our tadpoles.

We learnt about their life cycle, what they eat, varieties of species and their habitat. 
We watched them grow from tadpoles into froglets and then into frogs.
We kept a tadpole diary to record the changes we observed as they…