- Talked about Autumn, the weather and the seasons changing.
- Weaved with material through the fence.
- Made leaf rubbings.
- Sorted leaves by colour and size.
- Made apple crumble.
- Experimented to keep a toy warm in the the wind.
- Made windy sticks.
In the week prior to half term we..
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Attached is a copy of the reading letter that went out on Friday.
This week Acorns have been:
· Making a class and family tree. · Talking about our families; who they are and where they live. · Making gingerbread men. · Creating poem based on alll the things that we can do. · Practising writing our names. · Making salt dough faces. Welcome to the new school year, we hope all the children have enjoyed their first week at school. This week we have been:
· Settling in and getting to know our routines. · Talking about our likes and dislikes and our favourite things. · Making paper plate faces. · Talking about our birthdays and making a birthday medal. · Practising writing our names. · Practising washing our hands. It would be very useful if each child could bring in a used kitchen roll next week, we will be using these to make music shakers the following week. Many Thanks As part of Project: Acorn, we are very keen to completely refurbish Acorns. We are currently looking at furniture to replace the existing units. Photographs can be seen below of the furniture we are currently considering. Your thoughts are appreciated!
This Week we have been:
Finding out about spiders. Singing nursery rhymes about spiders. Writing about spiders and how they make us feel. Making eggbox spiders. Making spiders webs in lots of different ways. Making a giant spider web! Making Incy Wincy Spider go down the spout in the water tray. Week Beginning 6th May 2013
This week we have been: Finding out about snails and worms. Making paper snails and playdough worms. Investigating minibeasts in the conservation area. Reading 'The Snail and the Whale'. Singing 'There's a worm at the bottom of my garden.' Paper copies of the attached letter will be going home with the children today.
This week we have been:
This week we have been:
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Singing the rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and reading Whatever Next and non-fiction books about space. Making a moonscape from papier mache and building rockets and moonbuggies to go on it. Talking and writing about our adventures in space. Learning to use information books with contents, index etc. Making our outside house into 'space'. Making a stars mobile. This week we have been:
Learning the rhyme - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. Opening our own Shoe Shop. Measuring our shoes and comparing lengths. Drawing round each other and comparing our heights. Making our own shoe houses. This week we are:
Reading the story of jack and the Bean Stalk. Planting beans to watch how they grow. Making giant footprints and the giants castle! Doing some giant writing. making a giant beanstalk. Measuring and talking about long/ longer/longest and short/shoter/shortest etc. This week we are:
Talking about Shrove Tuesday, learning about why we celebrate it and tasting pancakes. Finding out about Chinese new Year. Tasting and investigating noodles and prawn crackers. Having a pancake race. Writing shopping lists and menus for our Chinese Restaurant. This week we are:
Reading and retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs. Making pink pig biscuits. Painting and collaging the three little pigs. Weighing and using the language of heavier, lighter, etc. 'huff puff' painting with straws. Investigating the best material for a roof. This week we are:
Reading and retelling the story of the Gingerbread Man. Cooking gingerbread men. making salt dough gingerbread men and 'selling' them using 1p and 2p coins. Making an obstacle course for the the Gingerbread Man. Learning ordinal numbers e.g: 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Acting out the story of the Gingerbread Man. This week we are:
Reading and retelling the story of Cinderella. Making magic wands and making up spells. Designing a coach for Cinderella. Making chocolate mice. Mixing our own magic potions. Enjoying investigating the snow. This week we are:
Reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears and other related stories, making, tasting and investigating porridge. Finding out about real bears. Learning about size and sorting and grouping by size and colour. Reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. This week we are:
Welcoming everyone back to school and talking about our Christmas holidays. Thinking about winter time, day and night and light and dark. Reading 'Can't you sleep Little Bear?' Investigating different sources of light. Thinking about looking after the birds in winter time and making bird cakes and threading nuts for them. Making up our own stories about winter. This week we are:
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