Over the last few Art lessons, we have been exploring new techniques; from sketching with charcoal and pencil to splattering and scraping with paints. We are hoping to recreate the most almighty volcanic eruption in our final piece, so we are working towards creating some impressive marks!!!!
It’s not just caterpillars and other minibeasts that we find at the bottom of the garden. We can grow lots of delicious food too.
Beautiful sitting, looking and listening skills demonstrated by our little treasures during our new story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ by Vivian French and Alison Bartlett.
We are all going to enjoy this book!
We were able to discuss and sequence events of our story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ using Tales Toolkit.
Tales Toolkit is a framework for storytelling which is accessible for all our little treasures. The framework using clear symbols displaying character, setting, problem and solution allows us to be fully engaged in storytelling from start to finish. We used extra props and visuals to aide the sequence of events.
Our little treasures were able to identify that the caterpillar came first and the butterfly at the end. With support and help from their classroom environment they were able to count and sequence some of the food that the hungry caterpillar ate.
We were able to, with a little support, count and copy the pattern of Mrs Nageri’s caterpillar, using miniature sponge printing. We are so clever!
We loved our sensory messy play using paper mache to create a cocoon for our caterpillar. We then painted it using a large grown up paintbrush with Mrs Robinson.
He is now tucked up all nice and cosy. Sshhhhhh!!!!!
Just like all our little treasures, our caterpillar has grown into a beautiful butterfly.
We love the way the sun catches our stained glass butterflies, shining brightly.
On Monday he ate through one apple, but he was still hungry.
We enjoyed some apple printing to represent the food he ate on Monday.
On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry.
We enjoyed the sensory feel of the felt we used to make our pears, representing the food he ate on Tuesday.
On Wednesday he ate through three plums, but he was still hungry.
We enjoyed exploring our senses looking through the purple coloured cello to make our plums, representing the food he ate on Wednesday.
On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.
We used our glue to stick on some seeds we found outdoors to represent the seeds on our strawberries. This was the food he ate on Thursday.
On Friday he ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry.
We loved painting the bubble wrap to represent the texture of the oranges he ate on Friday.
On Saturday he had stomachache after eating through lots of yummy food. Can you see all the food he ate from our ‘Widgit’ visuals?
We used our scissor skills to cut out all the yummy food he ate on Saturday.
On Sunday the caterpillar ate though one nice green leaf. He felt much better!
We enjoyed fork painting to represent our nice green leaf.
Great excitement in The Hub for our new topic ‘What’s at the bottom of our garden?’
We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly through our story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.
We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening during our visual representation of the story. Good understanding was displayed, through eye gaze and pointing, to answer all our questions.
After some inspiration from our story, we explored our outdoor area for some very hungry caterpillars using our magnifying glass.
Can you imagine the excitement when some real live caterpillars arrived in our Hub for us to look after!
We immersed our classroom to make our caterpillars feel at home. We made a number line caterpillar, paper mache cocoon and symmetrical patterned butterflies.
In the run-up to the Coronation of King Charles, we took a look back through history at seven other Coronations that have happened over the last 200 years. We were able to talk about the sources of evidence, how we have some video and photographs but the older the coronation, we only have the artist’s impression of the events. We looked at how the formal clothes had not changed very much and talked about the regal colours and jewels that were used to mark such special occasions. The of course we had a little party of our own to mark this important time in our History!
To celebrate the coronation of KIng Charles III on Saturday 6th May our little Hubbers made our very own crowns fit for a King!
A gold tablecloth was draped over our working table where we sat together to make our crowns. We knew it was a special occasion as all our new sequins and jewels were laid on the table for us to use. They dazzled us with their beauty of rich colours and sensory textures.
Everyone in the school wore red, white and blue clothes, the same colours as our national flag, to show our support for our amazing country. Our National Anthem played during our activity.
We also joined in with our school activities including a ‘Royal Bake Off‘ and ‘Royal Tombola’ with our families.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
This week, these children were chosen to be on the GOLDEN TABLE at lunch for their amazing lunch time behaviour, manners and kindness towards others! Great News! Well done!
The boys have had a great time exploring the outside area.
Connor enjoyed making sandcastles and building bridges. He loved the digger trucks and drove around the sand on his knees.
Kojeen decided to be brave and go on the seesaw .He independently managed to go on and push himself up and down,
Well done Kojeen.
Connor wanted to build with the bricks today . He built a wall and he then counted with Mrs Rowbottom,
Great counting Connor.
