This month’s reading challenge was to read outside – we took our Friday end of the day story outside in the sunshine!

The Forest Schools Fairies sent us a letter asking us to invent some tasty bird pizzas that they could serve at the new Hungry Beak Café. We learnt about the imperative verbs we would need to include in our instructions and that sometimes we can sound a bit bossy when we are using them (cut, press, spread, tie). As we were inventing we took photos of each stage so that we could write the instructions down later on in the week.

Last Thursday, we received a delivery of a newspaper report informing us of a meeting involving some of the most well-known garden birds in the local area. The birds had heard that bird feeders were being made by pupils at Hodnet School and they were keen to know where these feeders might hang, who would discover them first, and, most importantly, what delicious treats they would include.

We were excited to find out that many birds already know what we are learning about this half term so we headed outside to make some predictions. We thought about what might happen when we make and hang our own bird feeder following our designs and even more birds hear of this. We drew a picture and labelled it with what the birds might say on discovering one of our feeders!