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There was only this toy in our special bag this morning but Harriett knew that it could spin round and round. Who knew that it would change colour as it whizzed round though!
Click on the link below to see our fabulous Autumn painting, inspired by our toy…
Click on the link below to see how the children created fantastic pictures of bears, firstly painting the circular shapes for the face and ears, then, once it was dried, adding details in black pen.
Last week we all enjoyed our first ‘I Wonder Wednesday’.
Click on the link below to see how it went…
This week in F1 we are learning all about the story Commotion in the Ocean.
In the creative area this morning we have enjoyed creating waves by mixing the colours green, blue and white to blend and create different shades of each colour.
This week is Sports Week so we have kept that in mind when we created our doodles tonight. The children have attempted a running figure and then ‘doodled’ away into them. The results are looking pretty good!
We’ve had some great levels of concentration again. Well done!
Our ‘Doodle’ Club has started off brilliantly. All of the children who have come are so engaged, it’s brilliant! So lovely to see old faces again, it’s like they never left Foundation Stage!
Taking inspiration from all that we have learnt the past few weeks from the famous artist ‘Kandinsky‘ today we created some AMAZING Kandinsky themed tree pictures! We loved creating small concentric circles and patterns along our tree branches and loved exploring and talking about different colours we could use and blend! These trees look spectacular on show in our classroom!!!
This week in F2, we have continued with our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy as well as retelling the story using our signifiers, we had a go at hot seating. This is when one of the children pretends to be a character from the story, and the other children ask them questions. Mia, Forrest, Thomas and Declan took turns at being the farmer and the children thought of some fabulous questions…”why wouldn’t the turnip come out?”, “how did it taste?” and “have you ever grown anything so big?”.
In maths, we continued rotating and manipulating shapes to make more patterns and pictures.
On Wednesday we had a special visitor, Neil from the local Buddhist Centre. He chatted to us about Buddha, explained their beliefs and brought special artifacts which they use. We loved the special bell, drum and sound bowl, which we used while we did some meditation.
In Jigsaw (our PSHE learning) we were thinking about what makes a good friend and how we can make someone who is lonely feel happier.
We have also looked at the history of farming and created some beautiful trees in art, inspired by Kandinsky’s concentric circles.
PE was focused on our football skills; controlling, stopping and dribbling the ball and we also enjoyed different types of jumping… it’s been a very busy week!
Bridge Building!
Yesterday afternoon F2 had a wonderful ‘stay and play’ session themed around building bridges!
To finish our story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ we decided it would be nice to invite our families in to help us make our very own bridge for the Billy Goats to cross! We made and designed some fantastic models and showed great team-work, determination, perseverance and hard work!
Thank you to everyone who came in for our session, we hope you enjoyed it as much as us!
In literacy we continued with the story of the 3 B
illy goats, but this time we got imaginative and innovated the story. The goats changed to pigs and the troll turned into a scary dragon! We had great fun acting out our new story, and then used our phonic knowledge to write some fabulous sentences.
In maths we focused more on number bonds to 5 and 10, thinking of all the different ways to make these numbers. We’ve also sang number songs, our favourites are ’10 fat sausages’ where we need to take away numbers and ‘1 potato, 2 potato’ where we need to add
numbers.
In art we used our knowledge of paint mixing and got creative, painting our own concentric circles inspired by Kandinsky… they all looked truly amazing and individual.
In PE we continued with our circuit training. The children thoroughly enjoyed last week, so this week we invited Mrs. Marson to join us, and she did! After a good warm-up we had 60 seconds at each station… star jumps, burpees, walking lunges, step ups and planks… we all worked so hard, and then enjoyed a much needed cool down.
On Thursday Purple Pig Farm came to visit…we were all so excited! We saw a calf, sheep, pigs, rabbits and a 6 day old goat called Dora. We even got to hold a chick, which we all loved.
On Friday we all had ‘Freedom Friday’ as a reward for having the highest attendance of the week (Mrs. Buss/Miss Carrick’s class with 99%, amazing!) we get to wear non-uniform and have a flapjack treat… yummy!
We have also enjoyed our wonderful outdoor area this week … we’ve used tubes and pipes to make fantastic waterways, made sandcastles to keep the troll away, cooked delicious snacks for the goats in our mud kitchen and developed our physical strength on our climbing wall and pole…we love exploring and learning outside!
We hope you all have a happy Bank Holiday Weekend, we’ll see you back at school on Tuesday 6th May.
