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The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for exploring winter!
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The children have all loved being back at school today. We’ve started reading a new book, One Snowy Night, which is all about Percy the Park Keeper. He looks after all the woodland animals in the park and helps to keep them warm in his hut.
We also talked about Winter and how most of the trees have absolutely no leaves on at all any more. Some of the children drew some great winter trees.
And of course, we explored the ice in our outdoor area. It was so cold! Freddie said it was heavy. And Roo said it was slippery too!
Today we had the most fun possible! We pretended it was Christmas Eve! All the children came to school in their pyjamas and we explored everything you might do on Christmas Eve.
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The children have concentrated so well whilst they have been ‘sewing’ their Christmas cards, ready to take home. It was the first time a lot of them had used a needle. They stayed focused on their task so well, we were very impressed. Jacob & Ewura even managed to re-thread their needle! Well done!
There was so much language to focus on, when we talked about pulling and pushing, and so many instructions to follow, as well as having to use their developing muscles in their hands and fingers.
This week our afternoon children have had fun measuring out different ingredients to make our own air-drying ‘clay’. We used 2 cups of bicarbonate of soda, 1 cup of cornflower and 1.5 cups of water.
When we had mixed it up together, Mrs Silverwood heated it up on the hob. She had to keep stirring it all the time until it turned into a ball of thick paste.
You will have to wait to see our fantastic decorations though, as it is a surprise for Christmas! However, they are looking very pretty!
When we first looked at the different objects in Mrs Silverwood’s bag, we thought we were going to eat some breakfast because we knew that it was a box of cereal. However, Cally said we needed a bowl and some milk but they weren’t in the bag!
When we found a bar of chocolate, Jacob told us that we couldn’t be having breakfast, “because chocolate is for pudding”. He was right!
The children decided we needed to mix the chocolate into the cereal but the hard chunks just went round and round in the bowl. Nothing happened. That was when we realised we needed to melt the chocolate to get it to stick to the cornflakes, so we could make crispy buns, and to melt it we needed to make it warm.
We took turns to make the mixture and spoon it into our cupcake cases. It was all quite tricky to do and we had to concentrate. We decorated our crispy buns with chocolate ‘sticks’, which Brody thought looked, “very yummy”, to turn them into nests. Finally they needed an owl to fly down and sit in them. Just perfect.
The only thing we needed to do was to let the chocolate cool so that it went hard again, then to take them home and eat them! Mmm, delicious!
F1 loved experiencing the snow this morning. For some it was the first time they had EVER seen any snow! It was so exciting!
We had a good chat before we went outside about the clothes that we were wearing. Blake knew that his mummy had put his scarf on today because it was cold. Jacob told us that our hats would keep our heads warm. We definitely wouldn’t be wearing shorts and t-shirts today, like we did in the Summer!
The water in our tray had frozen solid! Musa shouted, “ice!”
Everyone’s hands got so cold from touching the ice and snow. It was great fun but we all needed warming up! There was only one thing for it…
HOT CHOCOLATE!
Today, F1 have been painting owls. We’ve started off by painting the shapes we wanted, then filling them in with lots of paint…
Whilst the paint has been wet, we have then made ‘zig-zag’ marks onto the owl’s tummies so that it looked a bit feathery…
Finally, we added glue and feathery wings, a beak and it’s talons…
Once the owls are dry, we are going to add yellowy-orange eyes.
Our owl painting has also inspired a bit of flying, as well as tree building (so that the owls can build their nests). A great day in F1!
Just like the title of our book, we really did have the best Diwali ever!
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