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Category : Foundation Stage
To finish our story ‘You must bring a hat!’ we had the best afternoon celebrating with our very own HARTY (hat-party!)
We made our own invites, lists for party food and prepared our own party sandwiches! We had a fabulous afternoon with party games, dancing, singing and a HAT CONGA!!!
As part of our Celebration topic, we have been thinking about Birthday Parties.
We came up with all sorts of ideas of everything we would need for a party and drew our ideas out altogether. Everyone got involved!
After Bonfire night Foundation Stage had a wonderful visit from our firefighter friend Gary! He brought his firefighting team to show us the big red fire engine! We had a brilliant afternoon talking about what firefighters do and what they need! We got to sit in the fire engine and have a go with the water hose! Before Gary left he even let us listen to the siren! We had a super afternoon and enjoyed making and painting our very own fire engines back in the classroom!
This week Foundation Stage read the story ‘You must bring a hat!’ We loved reading the story and exploring all the characters from the book!
The story inspired us with so many fantastic ideas but also some wonderful questions! Mainly regarding the ‘monocle wearing badger!’ What was a monocle? Why was he wearing one? Have we ever seen one? And what would you need it for? We decided to investigate this and examine our very own monocle! We inspected and examined pictures of people wearing monocles and discussed all those questions… What was it? What was it used for? We came to the conclusion that it was something “from the olden days” because the pictures were “black and white and we don’t see them anymore!”. We realised it was to help you see and compared them to glasses today and how they looked different, how had they changed? This was a brilliant topic for discussion and we had great fun exploring the monocle further in our “olden days hat shop!”
This week we introduced our new story ‘You MUST bring a hat!’
The children LOVED this story and it inspired us to get HAT CRAZY!
We have explored all different types of hats…tall hats, spotty hats, sparkly hats, HUGE hats! And have loved using our imagination to describe them and discuss what they might be useful for!
We have looked at iconic hats through history, characters who wear hats and hats from all around the world!
The children hosted their very own ‘HAT-WALK’…strutting their stuff down our very own red carpet!
We also had a ‘Mad-Hatter’ tea party…but of course to attend…YOU MUST BRING A HAT!
F1 thoroughly enjoyed their Stay and Play session today. Thank you to all the parents who were able to come.
