The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

We were able to, with a little support, count and copy the pattern of Mrs Nageri’s caterpillar, using miniature sponge printing. We are so clever!

                                         

We loved our sensory messy play using paper mache to create a cocoon for our caterpillar. We then painted it using a large grown up paintbrush with Mrs Robinson.

He is now tucked up all nice and cosy. Sshhhhhh!!!!!

                                         

Just like all our little treasures, our caterpillar has grown into a beautiful butterfly.

We love the way the sun catches our stained glass butterflies, shining brightly.

                                         

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

On Monday he ate through one apple, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed some apple printing to represent the food he ate on Monday.

                                         

On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed the sensory feel of the felt we used to make our pears, representing the food he ate on Tuesday.

                                           

On Wednesday he ate through three plums, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed exploring our senses looking through the purple coloured cello to make our plums, representing the food he ate on Wednesday.

                                             

On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.

We used our glue to stick on some seeds we found outdoors to represent the seeds on our strawberries. This was the food he ate on Thursday.

                                           

On Friday he ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry.

We loved painting the bubble wrap to represent the texture of the oranges he ate on Friday.

                                             

On Saturday he had stomachache after eating through lots of yummy food. Can you see all the food he ate from our ‘Widgit’ visuals?

We used our scissor skills to cut out all the yummy food he ate on Saturday.   

On Sunday the caterpillar ate though one nice green leaf. He felt much better!

We enjoyed fork painting to represent our nice green leaf.

                                             

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

Great excitement in The Hub for our new topic ‘What’s at the bottom of our garden?’

We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly through our story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.

We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening during our visual representation of the story. Good understanding was displayed, through eye gaze and pointing, to answer all our questions.

                                           

After some inspiration from our story, we explored our outdoor area for some very hungry caterpillars using our magnifying glass.

                                           

Can you imagine the excitement when some real live caterpillars arrived in our Hub for us to look after!

                                           

We immersed our classroom to make our caterpillars feel at home. We made a number line caterpillar, paper mache cocoon and symmetrical patterned butterflies. 

                                           

 

King’s Coronation Celebrations

By Mrs H WILEMAN5th May 2023

To celebrate the coronation of KIng Charles III on Saturday 6th May our little Hubbers made our very own crowns fit for a King!

A gold tablecloth was draped over our working table where we sat together to make our crowns. We knew it was a special occasion as all our new sequins and jewels were laid on the table for us to use. They dazzled us with their beauty of rich colours and sensory textures.

Everyone in the school wore red, white and blue clothes, the same colours as our national flag, to show our support for our amazing country. Our National Anthem played during our activity.

We also joined in with our school activities including a ‘Royal Bake Off‘ and ‘Royal Tombola’ with our families.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

                                         

Coronation Art with Charlotte Eldred

By Miss T LITHERLAND5th May 2023

On Thursday, Year 3 and 4 were very lucky as we had local artist, Charlotte Eldred in to work with us and we took part in a ‘Doodling Workshop’ based on the invitations for the Coronation.

A man called Andrew Jamieson designed the invites and before coming into our school, Charlotte asked permission to create doodles inspired by his work and he said yes! He also asked her to send some of the finished pieces to him so some of our work will be with the man who designed to invites! How exciting!

 

In Mrs Yardley’s class we worked hard on drawing outlines of crowns and lions (lions based on the crest) and then spent time doodling our own designs into the crowns!

As King Charles will be the third king as Charles and as he loves the environment so much we used these things to inspire our doodles. We think they all turned out pretty good!

Our visiting artist

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD25th April 2023

Charlotte Eldred is a local artist, based near to Hornsea.  She came in recently to create some wonderful window art to help us celebrate our city and our cultural capital of London.  She incorporated famous landmarks from both cities, symbols of importance (including our school badges for Christopher Pickering and Ganton).  She is incredibly talented.

She was also very complimentary about the children in school and said how polite they had all been when they stopped for a chat with her and to ask questions whilst she created her masterpieces, which is always great to hear.