The children had a fabulous day at the farm. We got a VIP tour of behind the scenes. We met the donkeys, sheep, pigs and goats. And even got to feed some of them. We saw the grain store where the famer keeps the grain and talked about the wheat that is harvested. We met farmer Ann who runs the farm. After learning all about how the farm works we had lunch in the barn then got to explore the play equipment. It only rained a little bit when we first arrived so we were very lucky to see the sunshine too. What a fantastic day!
Category : Foundation Stage
The children loved having a go in the tractor at our farm visit this week.
Today we thought we’d be like The Little Red Hen and bake some bread.
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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!!!
F2 had a lovely afternoon showing off their fabulous classroom in our stay and play session!
The children always enjoy these opportunities to share their classroom with their families so thank you to everyone who joined us!
The sun was shining and it was a glorious afternoon spent crafting, drawing, exploring and having lots of fun together!
We hope you enjoyed it as much as us! Here’s a few snaps from the session 🙂
F1 have loved creating pictures of The Little Red Hen today.
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Foundation Stage and Eco Club have been busy cleaning, litter picking, weeding and planting this week in the F2 garden!
Maintaining the school grounds is hard work and is a never ending job! So it helps when there’s team work involved!
The children have loved exploring the plants already growing in the garden, particularly smelling the mint! And have some big plans and ideas for the future!
Here’s a few snaps of us getting our hands dirty this week…
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 needed to make the perfect dough ready for cooking in the oven and eating with some home-made butter! The children enjoyed this part!
The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff!
What a fabulous morning F2 had bringing their traditional tale to life!!!
We have been learning the story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ the past few weeks and learning how to retell the story using our story signifiers and props!
Today we performed the story to each other, dressing up and acting out the main events and problems that occur.
WE loved seeing Mrs Buss dress up as a troll and trying to cross the bridge to the sweet green grass! This inspired us to act out the story on our own in groups outside, using traditional tale and story language! We had some great troll voices and impressions and enjoyed making sturdy bridges to safely guide the goats across!
This activity allowed the children opportunities to play and act out their literacy, developing oracy and language skills. It allowed children opportunities for modelling language, turn taking, sharing and building confidence…
We love the photos below capturing that fun, love, excitement and love for learning and reading!
The children have been exploring how to make their butterfly wings the same on both sides.
Vinny thought it was, “Like a mirror.”
Rory said, “It closed then it opened again like a beautiful butterfly!”
Rory also thought, “It’s magic.”
But Pixie said, “It’s Science.” How clever!
