The children had lots of fun today making lots of designs on their gingerbread man.
They used their fine motor skills to carefully ice and put on decorations in all different colours. They could even eat them at the end which they all enjoyed.
Category : Foundation Stage
Thank you for all of the sponsors. The children had fun on their Santa run this morning.
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Home School Diary WC 27th November 2023
The first thing our children noticed upon arriving at school this morning was the icy white frost that had covered our outdoor area! One child announced as he walked in “Jack Frost is here!”
This inspired us to get our coats on and go on a season walk, seeing if we could spot anymore signs of the arrival of Jack Frost! We got wrapped up and discussed the clothing we needed to wear at this time of year and headed out on our season walk! We loved exploring the frost with our senses, the touch of the cold, the smell of the fresh chilly air… some of us even enjoyed the taste of the cold ice!!! We noticed how the frost had left sparkly patterns on the floor, the leaves and on all our outdoor toys! We headed out around the school grounds and felt how hard the ground was and listened to the crunching of the grass under out feet!
This walk led to lots of discussions about what frost is and what happens to puddles and water outside when the frost comes! We discussed when we have seen frost before, lots of us have seen it on our windows or cars! And how we can get rid of it from cars! We talked about its glittery shiny appearance but how it also can be slippery and we must tread more carefully!
We loved exploring nature in the frost and finding leaves with beautifully sparkly patterns! Mrs Buss played a warm up leaf game with us… this was lots of fun as we got to find as many leaves as we could and warm them up with our hands watching the frost melt!
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This week Foundation Stage have started their new text, ‘You must bring a hat!’ by Simon Phillip and we have loved reading this text!
The children have been exploring hats, hats and more hats! And have loved looking into hats from all around the world and the many different purposes and occasions for a hat!
We have looked at describing some of the hats we have at home and how they are special to us, using our phonic knowledge to begin to write some cvc words to describe them!
We had the most fun this afternoon when we got to show off our hats on our HAT-WALK and strut our stuff modelling our very own favourite hat!
Keep your eyes posted for our upcoming ‘mad-hatters’ tea party! Invitations and lists to be written…
Sometimes inspiration hits you and this leads to taking your shoes and socks off and getting a bit messy!
What great fun some of our budding little artists had this morning exploring Jackson Pollocks famous art style ‘drip painting!’ We had talked about some of Pollock’s famous work in in class and looked at how he painted with the music to express his feelings. We looked at how he decided to paint on the floor more freely rather than at tables or on an easel and this appealed to some of our children greatly! They couldn’t wait to create their own Pollock-style masterpieces and had so much fun splatting, pouring, dripping and flicking! The outcomes were quite marvelous and inspired us to all do a bit of Pollock drip painting for our upcoming Christmas cards! We can’t wait to show you!!!
F1 had a fantastic day on Friday, taking part in all sorts of fun Children in Need activities, staring with our ‘Bear-pees’!
There were lots of Pudsey-themed activities to do.
Then finishing off with a ‘circle’ hunt outside. There were so many to find!
We are so proud to have held our first Christopher Pickering Art Exhibition.
The whole school spent several weeks in preperation practising our art skills using different medias and exploring different artists work in order to create our art work. Some of us used collage, some used oil pastels, colour washing, paint, pencil and marker pens to name just some of the media in our final masterpieces. We drew on all the rt skills we have developed so far to help us create our fantastic art work and combined this with the influence of different artists including Tracey Savage, Van Gough, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.
We were all very proud when had the opportunity to visit the gallery and see our work displayed in frames and named just like true artists.
We hope that everybody who had chance to visit the gallery had a lovely time.
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Home School Diary WC 13th November 2023