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Category : Foundation Stage
F1 have been having a bit of practise in readiness for Sports Day next week. The children have generally listened carefully to the instructions for each race and everyone has had a go. Well done! Finger crossed the weather stays dry for Tuesday!
What an AMAZING DAY!!!!!
The children have had such a fantastic day today on our school trip!
Finishing off our topics on ‘Farms’, we had a brilliant trip to ‘The Pink Pig Farm’ where we fed goats, donkeys; spotted pigs, ducks, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and alpacas!
We got a special tour of the farm (behind the scenes!) and learnt lots about wheat- where it is stored, how it is collected and what it is used for! We learnt about the animals on the farm and how they are looked after and cared for! We even had a chance to look at and touch some recently sheared sheep wool! And learnt lots about what this is used for!
The children then had a wonderful picnic, which they found very exciting! And the afternoon was saved for lots of physical activity and development! We have loved seeing so many smiling faces this afternoon and it has been another day declared as…
‘THE BEST DAY EVER!’
Here are a few snaps of our fabulous day! And we highly recommend taking a visit yourselves if you have the opportunity over the summer with your little ones- visit the link below for more information!
https://www.pinkpigfarm.co.uk/
It’s been a great day in F1. We have played guessing games and listened to the descriptions of animals. We’ve played outside helping elephants who were stuck in a swamp, looked after trapped animals, followed trails and even looked at some real-life stick insects.
What another fabulous week in our afterschool Nature Club!
The children loved getting up close and personal with our new class mates this Monday, meeting and greeting stick, sticky, stickman and… chicken nuggets! (All named by the children!) We spent a while researching and learning all about stick insects, where they originally come from, what they like to eat, how often they need cleaning, how to hold or pick them up and some very interesting facts about shedding and growing legs!
The children were amazed on how long our stick insects could grow and how amazing their super powers are at growing new limbs! The children were very gentle and careful at holding our pets and now know that using a painting brush gently is the best way to help support them when taking them in and out of their home!
The children were so excited by our new pets that we decided to go on a ‘stick’ hunt and make our very own stick stick insects! The children loved hunting for the perfect sticky stick and comparing the sizes of their sticks to their friends!
This was a fabulous opportunity for chat and discussion about length, nature and how to generally care and look after all creatures great and small around us!
We loved taking in the nature in our amazing spaces around our school and learning to care for our new pets!
We will keep you posted on how these sticky mates get on!!!
Welcome to the Summer term!
This week in F2, we have started our story, Handa’s Surprise.
This is a story about a Kenyan girl called Handa who visits her friend, Akeyo, with a basket full of seven different fruits as gifts. Along the way, Handa thinks which fruit Akeyo will like the best, however, each time Handa thinks about a certain fruit an animal pops along and takes that fruit.
In literacy we told the story using our signifiers, picture sequenced it, and drew our story maps and added sentences to it too.
During our topic lesson, we thought about the fruits from the story and then about all the other fruits we know, including our favourites. Then we designed, drew and labeled our own fruit cocktail, which we’ll be making next week, we can’t wait!
Thank you for your 50p contribution each week, which enables us to carry out these fun learning activities.
In maths we have continued and extended our learning of sharing and grouping.
On Wednesday we all put on our smartest and most sparkly clothes and enjoy our very own disco!
We danced and sang along to all our favourite songs, and even enjoyed a bag of sweets and juice at the end… we were tied out from all our fabulous dance moves.
We have also been looking at and naming farm animals this week, in preparation for our school trip on Wednesday 12th June. Please remember to dress your child suitably for the weather and to bring a packed lunch.
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Home School Diary WC 3rd June 2024
We hope you have a lovely weekend, F1 Staff.
Summer is here!
Even if there was a few dark clouds hanging about!!!
What a wonderful session in Nature Club this week! Enjoying and exploring the great outdoors and all that our wonderful school grounds has to offer! We loved playing hide and seek in our new forest and following the maze trail in our wildflower meadow! We researched and hunted for bugs, inspiring us to paint and even design our own bug rocks!
We had a fab time running free, chatting to our friends and getting creative! A lovely way to wind down and enjoy nature afterschool!
The children have enjoyed making some fabulous creations in the mud kitchen this afternoon. We practiced our cutting skills and cut some fresh herbs from our herb garden.
Phoebe made some delicious mint chocolate cupcakes. She had a smell to see which herb she was using and she said ”ooh fresh mint”. Once we made the cupcakes Arabella said ”We need to put them in the oven now”.
Eve had fun making some muddy herb tea. She enjoyed getting her hands dirty when she was squashing down the herbs in to the muddy water.
This week in F2…
In literacy we innovated our story, The Enormous Turnip. We changed the turnip to a pumpkin and the animals in our story were a fox, a deer and a goat! Then we used our ‘Fred fingers’ to pinch the sounds so we could write some fabulous sentences.
In maths, we learnt all about sharing and grouping … we particularly enjoyed sharing out the cookies equally so that each plate had the same amount.
Unfortunately, on Wednesday, our park trip had to be cancelled due to the terrible rainy weather, but this didn’t stop us from having fun! We embraced the weather, put on our wetsuits and wellies, and went exploring our school forest area! We had a fabulous time searching for bugs and flowers, looking for fairies, squelching in the mud and catching raindrops, finishing off with a teddy bears picnic and some dancing…it was a wonderful day for the children…and staff too!
In topic we found out where our food comes from. We already knew that animals at farms provide us with eggs, milk and meat, but we also found out that fruit and vegetables are grown at farms too. We learnt that wheat is used to make bread.
We hope you all enjoy the half-term holidays, and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 3rd June.