This morning some children had heard that snow was on its way. This morning the children went outside in their wetsuits and wellies to see if it was snowing but it was just rain and sleet and this did not stop us from exploring! The children loved jumping in muddy puddles and making their splashes bigger and bigger! This afternoon it wasn't raining, it was snowing! The children were so excited to be out in the snow. We had lots of fun painting in the snow and making different sized snow people. Before we went inside we had a snowball fight! It was snow much fun! This week we have been learning that some people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year, as part of our British Values, we understand that some people celebrate the same things and some people do not celebrate the same things and that is okay.
We had a big discussion around foods that we eat when we celebrate or spend time with our families. Some of our children like ordering food on a Friday night with their families, some enjoy having a roast dinner at a relatives, some have cake and candles and some children have pizza parties! We talked about different foods that people eat all around the world - the children found that some foods are the same as they enjoy and there were others that our children were less familiar with. Today, the children helped prepare and make a stir fry for everyone to try. The children carefully chopped the vegetables before the stir fry was cooked. All the children had a taste of the stir fry and lots of children really liked eating the noodles and vegetables. What an amazing day we have had dressing up as Rock Stars in aid of raising money for NSPCC. The children looked fantastic! Throughout the day we have listened to different types of music, including rock music. The children really enjoyed expressing themselves and sharing their dance moves! Today, our children in F1 and F2 had a very special visit from our school's Reading Ambassadors. They came and shared a story, we did really good listening and then we did lots of talking about the characters, plot and favourite parts of the story. The children really enjoyed it and we cannot wait for the next visit from the Reading Ambassadors! During our outdoor play this week, we have been exploring and investigating weather. (Up to now, we have had lots of different weather - sun, wind and rain and snow is also on the forecast!) Today it was very wet and windy! We used our pin wheels to see how windy it was - we noticed that the pin wheel spun really fast when it was windy and stopped when the wind calmed. This morning the children created their very own rain gauges and in the afternoon we tipped the rain gauges out and measured how much rain had fallen. The children then wanted to find the total of all their rain gauges and we measured 100ml of rain water collected from all of the children's rain gauges. We were curious about clouds and rain, so we looked on the internet and found the water cycle. We talked about how the puddles on the floor are evaporated (we don't see this happening because it is a gas), water droplets make the clouds, the wind moves the clouds and when there are lots of water droplets it rains! The children then carried out their very own rain cloud in a jar experiment. We used a jar, shaving foam and coloured water. The children squirted the coloured water in to the shaving foam (cloud) and watched it fill the cloud and then flow into the water below. During our outdoor play, the children created a hot chocolate café in our sand area. We made recipes and menus using our phonic knowledge and helped others, including our F1 children, to follow the recipe instructions to make their very own hot chocolate, cakes and other yummy treats. Before home time, the children shared what we had been up to outside and this sparked the interest in making our very own hot chocolate drink. Through shared writing, we made a shopping list and recipe for the children to follow the next day. The very next day (Friday) we had the ingredients and recipe to make our very own hot chocolate drink. We talked about staying safe when using the warm milk and hot water and followed the instructions very, very carefully. Our hot chocolate drinks were a big success and very tasty treat to have on a cold day. On the build to the end of our Autumn term, we have been really busy having lots of festive fun. The children did an amazing sing-a-long show for their grown ups, we were all super proud of their efforts and the children helped their grown ups to join in with the 'Reindeer Pokey' so a big well done to all the grown ups for joining in and a big thank you to all that came to the sing along show. After our sing a long show, we started our party - filled with games, dancing and laughter before having our party food. The children then had a very special visit from Santa, Mrs Claus and their helpful elves, we were so excited to see them, including our Chair of Governors and our Vice Chair of Governors who were just as excited! (A big thank you to Mr Wright our Local Authority Governor and his helpers for making a special visit to see our children) Our teachers are really impressed with the amount of mark making in our class. Lots of us are really interested in drawing and mark making in lots of different ways. We are all trying hard to give meaning to our marks, think about what we are drawing and what it will look like, and some of us are now using the sounds we have learned in phonics in our writing too! What superstars! This year we are loving our construction area and have some very talented architects in our class. Take a look at some of our creations! As part of our work on circles and triangles in maths we have been creating art in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. We looked at lots of his work first and identified where we could see our focus shapes, then we collected some objects and used them to print with to create our own Kandinsky inspired masterpieces. |
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