Unicorn Class Blog                    Term 1 Week 5                Week Commencing 28th September 2026

This week in the Unicorn’s Class we have been enjoying exploring different vegetables particularly whilst making and tasting the vegetable soup. We discovered some vegetables were harder than others, which made it more challenging to cut. However, everyone tried really hard and discovered techniques to make it a bit easier. We had the vegetable soup as our after Forest School snack, most of us liked smelling, looking at and some of us liked tasting the soup. We enjoyed learning the actions and words to a vegetable soup song. 

We have continued to look after our cress plants and observe changes as it’s grown.

We enjoyed going to the hall to explore different ways to travel and across benches, safely jumping off at the end.

As part of our SCARF programme we listened to ‘Sometimes I Feel Sunny’ by Gillian Shields. We then discussed how we were feeling now and the reason why. We discussed that there are lots of different feelings, that it is alright to not feel okay sometimes and that everyone has different feelings. We also discussed who can help us if we are not feeling okay. We have also enjoyed sharing other books exploring different emotions.

Outside we have enjoyed pretending to be robots, using the large loose parts to make vehicles, making autumn soups and using the climbing frame. 

The focus during maths this week has been comparing lengths and quantities. We particularly enjoyed comparing our cress plants, worms, towers we had built and comparing the sizes of our marble runs. 

During phonics we have been continuing with rhyming, identifying sounds, counting sounds and orally segmenting and blending. 

Next week we will be continuing with our ‘All about me topic’ and having a Harvest/Farm theme which will include making farms, a vet’s role play area and making apple crumble. 

Hope you all are having a lovely weekend and looking forward to seeing you all this week for more exploring.

Best wishes

Mrs Fenwick