We have had the most delicious expedition session this afternoon! We were really lucky in class 5 Carter’s mummy brought us some chocolate milk in glass bottles. We thought about why it is better for the environment in a glass bottle than cartons or plastic bottles. We then talked about what happens to the glass bottles next so that they can be used again.

Miss Tinker and I enjoyed everyone’s chocolate moustaches 🤣

We are busy working on our HOWLt of sharing the same goal as our crew this morning. We are working together to sort the animals into the different groups, using the anchor charts we created yesterday. We finished our lesson with the post it note game – we had to think really carefully about the questions and vocabulary we were using!

Well done class five 😊

This morning we used a jigsaw protocol. Each group worked to research a different animal group – we then became experts and presented our learning to everyone else. We even created anchor charts to help us later in our expedition.

We all worked really hard to meet our HOWLt of sharing the same goal as the rest of my crew.

Awesome job class 5 xx

We kicked off our new expedition by making predictions about what we thought our immersion week text could be about!

We then read the book The Blue Giant and tried to work out what the important message is.

Great start class five!

This term the EYFS children completed an expedition titled ‘Exploring Our World’. We were hooked into our learning with a visit from an expert and his feathery friends. This piqued an interest in wild birds and their habitats. The children have worked together to assemble and decorate bird boxes that are placed around our school and community.

We decided that we were going to give the residents at The Laurels Care Home some of the bird boxes that we made. We wanted to enhance their garden area and thought they would enjoy watching the local wildlife from their windows. Some of our Year Two children kindly delivered them for us and they are now sitting under their Christmas tree. We hope that it brings a smile to their faces.

While the year two children were there, we sang some Christmas songs for the residents too. It was truly a beautiful, heart warming moment that both the children and residents enjoyed.

We would like to wish all the staff and residents at The Laurels a very Merry Christmas and we hope to see you all again very soon 🎄 xx