Our afternoon children have tried Gruffalo Crumble today! It was Jacob’s idea!
Click on the link below to see what the children thought…
Category : Foundation Stage
On Tuesday we had a visitor come to the classroom… they were looking for juicy goats and wanted to hide under a bridge…
They soon left the classroom when they found only children. But the boys and girls wondered where they had gone and why there were talking about goats.
We went on an adventure to see if we could find any clues!
We can across a bridge in the classroom and some goats!
We also found a story… Can you guess what it was?
Miss Carrick read us the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
And we kept a close eye out for the troll!
Our new story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. To help us learn all about caterpillars and how then transform into butterflies we have got some REAL baby caterpillars so that we can watch them grow and change.
The children have been intrigued by them already!
Jax said, “They’re crawling, they can actually crawl on their own, that one just crawled up!”
Blake said, “I can see that one climbing.” Nevaeh added, “It’s on the wall.”
Finnley said, “They’re eating, eating the food.” He was right.
Freddie told us, “They’re ‘gonna’ get big!”
We can’t wait to watch them grow and change.
A BIG thank you to parents for all your help and support with the AMAZING Easter bonnets! The children looked fabulous and loved showcasing them to their friends and especially to you in their Easter Parade!
The children were all fantastic and loved dancing and strutting their stuff, parading their fabulous hats for everyone to see! We had some amazing creations… from pirate rabbit’s on boats, to Easter tiara’s! They were all fabulous!!!
Thank you for your continued support, what a lovely afternoon we had showcasing them off on the stage!
Happy Easter!
Oh… and check out some of our amazing poses below…
F2 have loved reading the story ‘Tad’ by Benji Davies!!!
This story has inspired us to explore the lifecycle of a Frog, discussing how Tad starts his journey and where he ends up!
We have learnt lots of new key vocabulary, such as ‘frog spawn’ ‘tadpole’ ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’… and discussed how the life cycle continues and goes round and round.
Mrs Wilkinson brought in some pretend frog spawn- chia seeds- we added water and mixed the gloopy mixture together to resemble real life frog spawn!
The children had a great time feeling and describing the spawn- describing it as “gooey’ “wet” “thick” and “gloopy”!
We had a great time mark making and drawing our own life cycles and could confidently talk about the process and change from frog spawn to frog!
Today we planted some cress seeds. First, we put damp cotton wool in a small container. Then we sprinkled the tiny cress seeds on top and watered them carefully. We placed the container on the windowsill so the seeds could get sunlight.
Over the next few days we watched the seeds grow into little green shoots. We were very excited to see how quickly cress grows. We learned that plants need water, light and care to grow.
Foundation Stage are so excited to take their cress plants home to taste!
The children had a lovely time planting on Friday. They developed lots of skills whilst doing this little job and had a lot of fun.
We chatted about what the plants need to help them grow. We’re going to carry on looking after them next week.
Whilst we have been reading We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, we have explored all of the environments that the family discover on their walk. We thought mud was brilliant but not half as exciting as creating our very own swirling, whirling snowstorm!
To start with, we watched how snow calmly and gently falls from the sky. Then we watched a storm and talked about why the snow was moving around in different directions. Jacob was able to tell us that it was because the wind was blowing it.
Yesterday the children had practised their cutting skills and snipped up lots of tiny pieces of white paper. Blake gave it a blow but it just wasn’t enough. What could we do?
We needed something that we could ‘waft’ to create lots of ‘wind’ so we decided to use our clipboards. The results were amazing!
Watch the videos below to see how we retold some of the story, with some of us trying hard to use British Sign Language at the same time, and then creating our amazing swirling, whirling snowstorm.
A great day in F1!
We had a lovely time celebrating World Book Day. The children came dressed as their favourite book characters and enjoyed sharing stories together. We talked about our favourite books and took part in fun reading activities. What a wonderful day celebrating our love of books!
#theyearofreading
#WBD
We have really loved reading the story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’ this term!
Click the link below to take a deep dive in to all of the exciting things F2 have been getting up to explore this story.