Blog Author: Miss Moore

Our topic is 'Growth and green fingers'. We have an exciting new role play area which we have transformed into a Garden Centre.

We have turnips (linking to our literacy focus book 'The enormous turnip'), gardening books, magazines, seeds, a garden gnome, plant pots and gardening…

Over the past few weeks we have been busy learning about The Great Fire of London! The children have soaked up so many facts, feel free to quiz them. They have all worked amazingly hard and completed a fantastic booklet all about the fire in 1666.

These next couple of days we will be coming…

We have bee using chalk to draw 2D shapes, we have then cut them out and stuck them into our maths books and labelled them. 

We have been creating 2D and 3D shapes with play dough. We have had some fantastic cylinders, cubes and spheres! 

We have been sorting 2D and 3D shapes!

In Literacy we are looking at non-fiction text. This week Oak class have been researching Penguins, Pigs and Possums on the internet and recording the facts they have found onto paper! 

Today we have been painting our play dough models, the children worked really hard using different sized brushes and mixing colours to create the closest colour to their animal. 

Yesterday we created our own animals from play dough and then designed our animals habitat and what it eats. We used fantastic vocabularly as we were designing our animal such as push, pull, twist, stretch,squash and pinch!

Today a dance teacher came in and taught us a dance routine to Charlie and the chocolate factory! We had lots of fun and re-told the story using some cool dance moves.

We had a fantastic morning learning about a paramedics job, we looked  through all of their different medical bags and had the opportunity to use some of the equipment. We also had the chance to explore the ambluance. 

This morning the children in recpetion have been using positional language to complete tasks on the play ground! We are all fantastic at positional language (Maths: shape, space, measure 40-60 months)!

We had a special visitor today, Mrs Hunter brought her chicks in for us all to see! We all had the opportunity to hold the chicks and we learnt lots about them.