Click on the link below to see how we got on when we made vegetable soup in F1. It turned out to involve building a machine to harvest our own ‘vegetables’ too!
Making soup and building the harvester
Category : Foundation Stage
Can you guess what story we have been reading this week from the clues below?
The Little Red Hen!
We have loved reading this story together in class this week and have had lots of lengthy discussions about sharing and helping each other! We have chatted about animals you might see on a farm and the different jobs that might happen there.
The story led us to lots of discussions and talk about bread...if we like it, what we like on it and where it comes from!
We realised that it doesn’t start in the local shops but that it is made and comes from a crop called wheat…which is farmed!!!
We had lots of fun watching the process of harvesting and collecting wheat and how this is ground to make flour in a mill.
We then had a go at using flour to make our very own bread, which was lots of fun, and messy too! We stirred, poured and kneaded to make the perfect dough ready for cooking in the oven and eating with some home-made butter! The children enjoyed this part!
We had an amazing time when Purple Pig Company came to visit us at school. All of our families loved it too!
Click on the link below to see what we got up to…
Click the link to have a peak inside to see what the children got up to on our spring walk!
We had so much fun and learned lots!
This week F2 have enjoyed learning all about the famous Russian artist…
‘Wassily Kandinsky’
…and have used his work to inspire some of their own fabulous pieces of art!
We have learnt lots about Wassily himself and have enjoyed exploring some of his most famous pieces, looking at the shapes he used and the colours!
We explored how different colours make us feel and how we can mix colours together to create new ones, talking about the primary colours and their importance!
Here are a few pictures of the children getting inspired and busy with their intrinsic circle designs, carefully mixing their own colours and creating beautiful abstract art!!!
Our paintings are so fabulous we have made our very own Kandinsky display!
We have loved reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have been mesmerised by our caterpillars in the classroom and have really enjoyed watching them grow and change.
It seemed only right to create our very own beautiful butterflies.
Click on the link below to see how we made them…
Today we watched our first four butterflies fly away. It’s been quite magical watching them 🐛🦋
To introduce our new story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ we immersed our classroom and turned it in to our very own farm! The children had a fabulous day, click the link to see more…
It has been raining blossom today in F2!
The children have loved getting in the garden more as the weather starts to feel warmer!
We have noticed lots of spring changes around us like our lovely blossom tree which had grown over the Easter Holidays bringing us a lovely surprise.
We have also noticed lots of nature around us waking up and have been enjoying looking for minibeasts.
We have enjoyed learning all about Spring…a time of growth and colour!!
This week we took part in the Mini Marathon to raise money for the Children with Cancer UK charity.
If you’d like to donate please click here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/cppsminimarathon
The children did a 1 mile marathon and had a fabulous time.
Good luck Mr Morgan and the children running in London this weekend for the Marathon
