Another fun-filled day today in Class 1 with more dinosaur roaring, making pasta hair, making play doh dinosaurs, finding dinosaur bones and teeth in the dinosaur den and serving customers in the fish and chip shop! Some of the children even impressed me with their number knowledge today - clearly they have been doing lots of counting over the summer! [...]
We had a great morning in Class 1, exploring the classroom and dressing up (and roaring) like dinosaurs! (The roaring might explain the sore throat your child may have come home with!) In the afternoon we even found some dinosaurs exploring the dinosaur den, if you look closely you may see their tails poking out... or was it just the [...]
Class 1 has had a great time this morning, learning all about minibeasts and how to make good quality compost. Not only did we get to turn the hall into a giant compost bin, bringing lots of different minibeasts to life (including a huge centipede), we also got to plant their own grass and look very closely at lots of [...]
In line with our topic I am hoping to set up a Fish and Chip Shop (possibly with an Ice Cream Parlour included) in the Wendy House and a Vet's Surgery in the outside den. If you happen to treat yourself this half term to some fish and chips (or a small tub of ice cream) please could you help [...]
So here it is, the moment Class 1 have all been waiting for... our beautiful butterflies have come out to say hello! Yesterday morning, the stunning Red Admirals started to appear all sleepy eyed from their cocoons. They kept still for a while and gave their wings time to dry, we even saw bits of red (which looked a bit [...]
Class 1 have had lots of fun this half term learning all about minibeasts. We have been very busy finding real minibeasts outside, drawing and making colourful minibeasts, creating a humongous collage caterpillar, raising our own class butterflies, learning and writing all about the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', tasting and describing the food that the hungry caterpillar ate [...]
