We have joined in Science Week by exploring shadows. Mrs Kenington made some fabulous puppets, from our Gruffalo story, which we have enjoyed exploring, especially during Breakfast Club. The children really enjoyed listening to and joining in with the story.
F1 had a chat about what foods they could remember from our Gruffalo story…
“Roasted fox”, said Forrest. So we tried some!
Keigha wasn’t impressed with the idea of roasted fox, “It’s disgusting, I’m not trying that!” Ivan thought differently though, “I like it!”
Warran remembered that there was also scrambled snake in the story. But what would it be like? Myles said, “I think scrambled snake would be green because the snake is green.” However, it wasn’t actually green!
“It’s so good!” said Ivy N with surprise. “It tastes like pasta,” said Violet.
Isabella remembered about the owl ice cream too. Keigha thought, “Owl ice cream would be sweet. It would be grey.”
Lottie and Luna both said, “It’s good.” Reuben thought, “It’s yummy!” Alex said, “It’s cold.”
Some of the children tried everything. Some were pleasantly surprised!
Tyler said, “Fox? Carrots!”
He was right! The teachers confessed that the roast fox was actually roast carrots, the scrambled snake was pasta and the owl ice cream was frozen yogurt.
“It wasn’t a good pretend! I thought it was roasted fox!” exclaimed Violet.
“You tricked us!” realised Phoebe.
It has been great fun though and we were really proud of everyone for trying new food.
So lovely to see Connor trying new things and engaging in all our toys and activities.
He came in this morning full of smiles and went over to the garage, Connor then used his choice board to ask for his car.
This morning the Green Group did some fantastic snowman drawings after getting caught in the snow on the way to school.
Those children who braved the cold had great fun exploring the snow; snowballs, fun and footprints!
The snow felt so cold on our hands.
Ivy spotted the patterns our boots made. Violet thought hers was like a maze.
Today was such an exciting day. Noah has been very shy and has hesitated when playing or interacting with his peers even with adult support.
This morning he watched Tyler get the cars and drop them down the track. He then let go of my hand and went over to the side and got himself the other track. Tyler then handed Noah a car and he copied what Tyler was role modelling.
He was so happy and excited. What a fabulous thing to see…so happy Noah is enjoying the Hub and is now joining in.
We just loved We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. So many of the children could retell the story, using actions, and kept chanting parts of the story as they played.
We ended up going exploring out on the field to see what we can find.
There was lots of grass so we made lots of ‘swishy, swashy’ footsteps.
We found a forest and we had to be careful not to stumble and trip!
We pretended the tyres were the thick, oozey mud.
Unlike the story, we got caught in a real BEAR TRAP!
Eventually, we found the bear’s cave. Poppy saw 1 wet shiny nose!
Which meant we had to rush all the way back home through all the obstacles!
We’re never going on a Bear Hunt again!
Holi
What a day F2 have had celebrating the exciting and fun festival of Holi in religious studies!
Today our children all came to school wearing brightly coloured clothes ready to celebrate the festival of colour!
We have been discussing the traditional Hindu festival all week and the events that take place during this time of celebration. We spoke about the celebration welcoming in the beginnings of Spring and saying goodbye to the end of Winter. We talked about what the celebration meant to some people and how the festival symbolled new life, beginnings, love and hope!
We looked at where some people went to worship during this festival time and how some people celebrated with parties, paint throwing and dancing!
In the afternoon we had our very own paint throwing celebration! We created Rangoli patterns with Chalk, danced to some traditional Hindu music and raced our very own colour run across the field, flying our colourful flags and musical instruments! The afternoon was full of music, dance, creativity and merriment and the children definitely enjoyed experiencing this festival, labelling it their ‘favourite day at school’ to date!!!
