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Category : Foundation Stage
This week in F2, we have continued with our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy as well as retelling the story using our signifiers, we had a go at hot seating. This is when one of the children pretends to be a character from the story, and the other children ask them questions. Mia, Forrest, Thomas and Declan took turns at being the farmer and the children thought of some fabulous questions…”why wouldn’t the turnip come out?”, “how did it taste?” and “have you ever grown anything so big?”.
In maths, we continued rotating and manipulating shapes to make more patterns and pictures.
On Wednesday we had a special visitor, Neil from the local Buddhist Centre. He chatted to us about Buddha, explained their beliefs and brought special artifacts which they use. We loved the special bell, drum and sound bowl, which we used while we did some meditation.
In Jigsaw (our PSHE learning) we were thinking about what makes a good friend and how we can make someone who is lonely feel happier.
We have also looked at the history of farming and created some beautiful trees in art, inspired by Kandinsky’s concentric circles.
PE was focused on our football skills; controlling, stopping and dribbling the ball and we also enjoyed different types of jumping… it’s been a very busy week!
Foundation Stage had a special visitor this week…Neil from the local Buddhist Centre…
Our visit was very interesting and we had some fabulous questions to ask Neil!
We have being learning all about the religion and practice of Buddhism and what they believe and how they celebrate this. Neil brought lots of things in for us to look at… we particularly liked the singing bowl, which helped to start and finish our meditation…this we found very relaxing!
“Who was Buddha?” “What did he teach?” “Why is Buddha called Buddha?”
We are super impressed with the writing in F2 over the past few weeks!
We have been learning the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip‘ and can now retell the story confidently using signifiers! This has helped us in our writing and inspired us to write about the story and the key events!
We have been working hard at checking our writing and making sure we are using capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops!
This week in F2, we have started our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy we have been acting out the story using our signifiers, drawing our story maps and adding sentences to it too. We think of a sentence together, hold it in our head, count on our fingers how many words are in it and then use our Fred Fingers to help spell the words. We remember that a sentence must always have a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.
In maths, we have had a closer look at shapes. We looked at similarities and differences between shapes, we learnt that even if we rotate a shape, it remains the same shape and then we manipulated shapes to make patterns and pictures.
On Tuesday we had our Big Build Stay and Play where we had great fun building bridges… we used Lego, rolled up newspaper, junk modelling, wooden and foam bricks… it was lovely to see our children working together with their grown-up and some amazing constructions were made. A big thank you to those that were able to join us.
As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…the weather has been so sunny, we have loved being able to go out without our coats on. Please remember to send your child with a sun hat, water bottle and apply sunscreen at home.
We’ve splashed in the water, while creating waterways to fill buckets, built the best sandcastles decorated with sparkly jewels and made delicious picnic feasts and soups in our mud kitchen.
Bridge Building!
Yesterday afternoon F2 had a wonderful ‘stay and play’ session themed around building bridges!
To finish our story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ we decided it would be nice to invite our families in to help us make our very own bridge for the Billy Goats to cross! We made and designed some fantastic models and showed great team-work, determination, perseverance and hard work!
Thank you to everyone who came in for our session, we hope you enjoyed it as much as us!
It’s been so exciting watching our butterflies hatch out of their cocoons this week. The children have tried so hard to be quiet around the houses and have spent a long time just watching the butterflies as their wings dry out.
We all know the Makaton sign for ‘butterfly’ too. Noah and Ada-Grace were showing each other whilst they watched the butterflies together.
However, today we had to let our butterflies go and find a home. They took a little bit of time to get used to being outside and were happy to sit on our hands so long as we were very still. It was fabulous to be able to see them at such close quarters.
One of them had a flutter and then landed on Ada-Grace’s boot! It was beautiful!
What a super time we had on our Farm Day. The FS garden had lots of farm activities for us to join in with and the children all looked the part, ready for a busy day working on the farm. All of the children got the chance to visit to animals from Purple Pig Farm. We were very lucky to meet a calf, some piglets, a 6 day old goat, rabbits and lambs. We all got to cuddle a chick and our teachers were very proud with how gentle we were. We were so glad the sun was shining too. When we asked the children what their favourite part of the day was… most of them answered “holding the chick”.
This week we talked about how farmers not only look after animals but they also grow vegetables for us. We looked at how they grow and talked about how healthy they are.
In the end we decided to make vegetable soup! Nearly everyone tried it and lots of us thought it was delicious!
We chopped up the vegetables then added them to our pan. We had to cook them to make them soft. Then we used a blender (well done Kenya for knowing what it was called) to make the soup smooth.
