Our new children have joined in with their first experience of baking at school.
It was great fun!
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Category : Foundation Stage
The damp weather didn’t dampen our spirits in F1 today. We had the loveliest afternoon playing outside. Some of the children enjoyed turning chalk into paint on the wet ground…
Others explored the very wet dinosaur land…
Whilst a group built towers out of the small tyres… again and again and again!
This week in F2 we had a surprise basket of props in our classroom! We had to use the clues to guess what traditional tale we would be reading… sticks, straw, bricks and a pig?! Can you guess what it is???
The Three Little Pigs!
We loved reading this story and started learning some signifiers to retell to each other!
We then went off into the classroom and became very inspired with our role-play area and puppets to retell the story and make our own boiling pot of WOLF STEW! Here’s a few snaps of how we got busy in the afternoon and fully embraced our new story!
Here is a little snap shot our Christmas tree, which is still up in January and has moved itself into our role-play kitchen area!
We have decided to keep our wonderful tree up just a little bit longer to give our children the opportunity to come back to school and talk about their Christmas experiences and events! We have loved having lots of circle times this week about what we have done/ received and felt over Christmas and the extra time and chance for this opportunity for discussion has allowed our children to process their experiences more thoroughly. It has been a great opportunity for language development and role-play, as the children have been making their own Christmas dinners and sitting round the table together as a family!
This week Mrs Buss had changed around some of our classroom and had started to create a fabulous space for us to build some houses!!! The children were a big help and wanted to build a house using bricks! We discussed what houses were made from and how our own houses were built.
We decided to do some brick printing ready to create one of our houses. We had great fun looking at bricks, and the colours. The children mixed lots of colours together to make the perfect brick shade red/brown and loved getting stuck in pushing their bricks and stamping on the paper! We made a great brick wall and had lots of fun in doing so!
This term our topic is ‘Houses and Homes’ and we will be looking at different houses around the world and how they are made… Can you guess what our story could be in Literacy? Something with a brick house, a straw house and a stick house…
Winter is HERE! In Science this week we have been looking at the changing in the seasons and weather and boy can we tell that Winter is here!
The Children arrived at school on Tuesday to see that Jack Frost had been overnight and had turned our Foundation Stage garden into a wonderful delight of ice, sparkles and frozen frost! We have had such fun wrapping up warm and exploring the great outdoors to explore ice- what is it? How does it happen? what happens to it? So many great questions and discussions, explorations and observations to discover the answers!
The children have loved touching it, writing their names in it and trying very hard to break it! Great team building and skills as they tried a variety of tools to attempt to smash and break the ice! We have also enjoyed looking at nature around us and how the frost has affected some of the trees, leaves and plants! We had a lovely idea to use our warm hands to help warm up some of the frozen leaves!
And we also couldn’t help but have a sing song outside with our boom box…of course ‘Let it go’ by Elsa had to come out!
F2 have been very busy studying and researching the artist ‘Jackson Pollock’ over the last term! Today the children had great fun creating their own Jackson Pollock inspired artwork by flicking and splatting their brushes to create very colourful and bright masterpieces!
The children had great fun mixing and making their own colours and enjoyed splatting paint whilst listening to some music! This definitely got our creative juices flowing and we had so much fun dancing, painting and expressing ourselves! Definitely our favorite artist technique studied so far!
Wow… what a performance.
The children did so well learning the songs, saying their lines and performing in front of the school and their families. We are so proud of each and every one of them for their hard work. It is quite tricky remember all the song words, where to go on the stage and all the while smiling and being the best angel or tree or hailstone!
A huge WELL DONE too all the children who took part in Foundation stage 2 and Year 1.
Here are a few photos of some of the the superstars.
Working hard to create some special surprised today in F1…
