THIS WEEK IN F2…

By Jodie Buss21st January 2024

A few snippets of a week in F2… we have been exploring numbers to 5 using Numicon, mark making and name writing, exploring ice and the changing of the seasons outside, designing and creating our own houses, making cement mixers, constructing bungalows, flats and caravans and most of all having lots of fun and laughter with our friends! We have also been learning the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ using our talk for writing signifiers, retelling the story to each other and learning all about our focus artist…Piet Mondrain and the mastery of block painting! (see next post!)

 

HUFF PUFF EXPERIMENT!

By Jodie Buss21st January 2024

This afternoon F2 decided to test the best materials to use for building a house! After reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in literacy, the children had a few questions about house building. If we were going to build our own house would we use straw? And if not, why not? Would we use sticks? or bricks? Lego? We decided to test a house made from each material that we had built and see if it was strong or weak. In order to test the house we wanted to see if it would withstand a big blow… from perhaps a BIG BAD WOLF! Using a hair dryer we made a strong ‘blow’ from the wolf and tested out our theories of strong or weak materials. We made a table of our predications and started our experiment! We reached the conclusion that the strongest materials to use would be either brick or Lego, as they did not move after the big windy blow! Straw, paper and sticks however, did not hold out so well! What a fun afternoon, with lots of giggles and mess!!!

 

F2 Builder Day!

By Jodie Buss21st January 2024

A few snaps from our builder ‘WOW’ day! The children had great fun learning all about the roles involved in house development, from designing houses to building them! We became architects and thought about what our house would have and the materials we could use. We got to work building as a team and made a fabulous house with windows, walls, a roof, chimney and a garden! Unfortunately whilst we were out having our lunch over dinner someone came into the classroom and blew our house down!!! The children were quite puzzled by who could have done this!? This led to an investigation… and we soon found the culprit! The BIG BAD WOLF! The children decided they wanted to question the wolf and find out why he had blown down our house… The wolf was taken in for hot-seating and the children thought of some fantastic questions! The children came to the conclusion themselves that really the wolf wasn’t all that bad and in actual fact was just quite lonely and needed a friend. The children helped the wolf make his own house as he promised to not blow anymore houses down! The children all looked fabulous in their builder costumes!

Foundation Stage Hub

By Mrs J BRANSTON11th January 2024

The children have had a blast on their first week back Theodore loves looking at all the different colours and numbers in the book.He could count to 20

He played with the tube and did his morning exercise.

Connor loved doing his speech programme today He could chose the correct picture and really enjoyed posting it into the letter box

Elliot was so happy doing his exercise ,he was smiling and rolling all over .

Lola picked a book she enjoys and pointed to the words as Mrs Walker read them back to her

F1’s Christmas Party Day

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD21st December 2023

A fun day today in F1.  The children thought of everything that we would need for a party and we made a list.  It was started off by Charlie with, “music”.  Check!

Then Phoebe added, “Maybe cupcakes.”  Check!

“Hats!” said Tommy.  So we all made party hats.

Benjamin thought we should have more cake.  Bailey said, “I think we need lights.”

Richard thought of, “Christmas presents.”  “To open,” added Phoebe.  So we played pass the parcel.

Lola said, “I think a Santa.  A pretend one.”

Gracie thought more cake too!

Instead we played some fun games.

Finally, Charlie came up with, “Dancing!”.  Then added, “You should freeze it before the music stops.”  So we danced and we played musical statues.

What a fantastic party.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Nativity

By Mrs E WILKINSON19th December 2023

All of the staff were so proud of the children who took part in the Nativity this year. They worked really hard to learn their lines, sing the songs and come on and off the stage the right times. The children also learnt more about the story of the first Christmas and what Christians believe happened at that time.

Here are some of the photos we got of the children.