30.01.26 - Little Red Riding Hood
The children have enjoyed acting out the story of Little Red Riding Hood in roleplay, they used words and phrases from the story and told it in sequence.
The children thought about how they could describe character of the wolf, they used words such as fierce, mean, scary, hungry, vicious, terrifying, sharp teeth, pointy claws and wrote WANTED posters to warn other people about him using the letters, sounds and words that they have learnt.
In Maths the children explored repeating patterns, they learnt to identify, extend and create repeating AB and ABC patterns.
The children have explored different ways of attaching materials together in the making area such as masking tape, split pins, staples and glue and have made flowers and baskets for Granny using their skills.
Winter Trees - 16.01.26
This week we continued to learn about what happens in Winter. We found out that some bird migrate to warmer countries and that some birds find it difficult to find food because there are less insects and berries to eat. We decided to make some bird feeders to feed the birds in our garden. We used cutters to cut out toast shapes, knives to spread peanut butter onto the toast and then pressed them into bird seed. We threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners and practiced our pincer grip which will help us with our writing. We hope that the birds enjoy our tasty treats!
In maths we have been learning to calculate pairs of numbers that equal 10, we have used tens frames, part part whole, numcion, counters, cubes, and poppets to help us. Some children challenged themselves to record their number sentences on whiteboards using the symbols + =.
09.01.26 - Winter
The children were very excited to return to school after the Christmas break to a very frosty and icy garden. They explored the ice, collected the ice and even tried to make their own ice by leaving our water to freeze over night.
The children created icy collages and used the words hail, ice, frost, freezing, snow when talking about their creations.
We talked about how the trees had changed since Autumn and learnt about the words evergreen and deciduous. The children did some really careful observational drawings of trees in the forest school area. Everyone tried to include the different parts of the tree in their drawing: roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves.