Story time

10th February 2022Emma Powell

We have enjoyed reading the story of Hansel and Gretel. We went into the woods for a special story time.

Our local area:

We went for a walk around our school grounds and did observational drawings of things that we can see.

Special People

We have been thinking about people who are special to us and have talked about why they are special to us.

We have been busy creating gifts for some of the special people in our lives.

More engineering in the early years:

26th January 2022Emma Powell

  • Wooden blocks to make a garage for the vehicles.
  • Aqua beads to make Elmer the elephant
  • Making food for a tea party.
  • “I’ve made a really tall tower”
  • A house for one of The Three Little Pigs.
  • Designing and making a house in the construction area.
  • Creating a stage for singing and dancing.
  • Copying a model to build a house out of lollipop sticks.
  • Using our imaginations…making a slide out of planks.
  • Copying a model carefully
  • Another super house.
  • “I’ve made a new triangle house for one of The Three Pigs”.
  • Building a dinosaur kingdom.
  • Using plastic bricks to make a house.
  • Designing and making a house using straws and wooden blocks.
We can’t wait to see what else we will create next week. We are all ready in our builders outfits!

Early Years Engineers

20th January 2022Emma Powell

We have been busy in our Reception classes building, creating and making:

  • A home for the animals
  • A tent to sleep in
  • Mending the climbing frame
  • “We are fixers”
  • Helping each other
  • Building a boat to live in
  • “A house for my chickens”
  • ‘A house of sticks”
  • “It’s my house”
  • The Three Little Pigs house of straw
  • “My house of sticks for the Three Little Pigs”
  • “A kingdom house in London”
  • ‘A triangle house”
  • Paper people
  • “A BIG HOUSE!”
I wonder what else we can make over the coming days?

Celebrating Autumn

26th November 2021Emma Powell

We have been looking at the changes in our outdoor area. We noticed that the leaves have changed colour and have been falling from the trees. We have also enjoyed working collaboratively to paint pictures using autumn colours.

Number 4

We have been representing and making 4 in different ways. We have had great fun making paper people….can you count how many people there are in the set?

Being kind to ourselves and others

18th November 2021Emma Powell

We have been working together, being kind and respectful towards each other in our areas of provision.

A recipe for being a good friend

We have talked about the qualities of a good friend. We need to be kind, listen, take turns, share and look after each other if we are to be a good friend. We designed some posters:

We have also been kind to our environment. We have been working hard together to tidy up our garden area, especially now all of the leaves are blowing off of the trees:

Great effort and teamwork boys!

HoWLs:

At the end of the week we had a fabulous poster designed in the mark making area. This poster now sits proudly on display in the classroom to remind us all of the HoWLs in Class 1:

Remembrance Day in EYFS

11th November 2021Gemma Tinker

In EYFS today we have been learning about Remembrance Day, we have been thinking about the brave soldiers who protect our country to keep us all safe. We have printed poppies, made edible poppy biscuits and delivered them as a random act of kindness to all of the grown ups in school who help keep us safe everyday. We also surprised the staff at the Junior School with a biscuit too! We have coloured poppies, drawn our own poppies and even attempted to write the sounds we hear in words.

Our first week back…

4th November 2021Gemma Tinker

What a busy week we have had in Class 1. We loved the Halloween disco, and dressed in our most spooky outfits! We have enjoyed building and creating and have been learning all about triangles. We have been lost in books and have spent lots of time sorting, matching and counting in our maths area. We wonder what next week will bring…

Little Artists in the making…..

13th October 2021Emma Powell

We looked at the large tree in our garden area. We noticed that the leaves are still green and are all still on the tree. We wonder what it will look like when we come back to school after the half term break?

We created pictures which were inspired by the artist Guiseppe Archimboldo:

We looked carefully at the work by Archimboldo and created our own versions:

We are going to sketch our work next…..we look forward to seeing what they look like when they are complete.

Investigating Pumpkins…

11th October 2021Gemma Tinker

  • How can we open them? Shall we smash them?
  • So many seeds…
  • I’m strong enough to open it…
  • It’s heavy…
  • Nearly inside both now!
  • Yes we did it! Look at all of the seeds!
  • It’s yucky … but I want another go!
  • I’m not sure whether I like it … but I love investigating!
  • Seeds… there are LOADS!
  • This one is slimy…
  • Wow! Can I have a turn?
  • It’s heavy … and it smells funny!
  • I am sooooo strong!
  • No seeds left in this bit!
  • It smells funny … and it feels a bit funny too!
  • I like this … I like seeing inside!
  • Counting…
  • Can I play here all day – I love investigating pumpkins!
  • Digging deep to pull out the stringy bits!
  • I emptied it!
Class 1 and Class 2 have enjoyed investigating pumpkins in the outdoor area this morning… What a fantastic start to the week… slimy, gooey, hard but smooth, sticky, stringy pumpkins! I wonder where our learning will go?