This week, we've been reading the story 'The Magic Paintbrush' by Julia Donaldson. In the story, Shen uses her magic paintbrush to paint a dragon to keep the emperor away. Today we painted a dragon of our own! 'A beast with scales and claws.' We found different ways to make the scales - from patting the brush for a 3D [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy New Year! We've made our own dragons, tried using chopsticks, had a feast whilst making our own firework fruit sticks and had our own dragon parade!
A morning of Forest School fun. Finding ice and watching it melt, making mud milkshakes and identifying different minibeasts. An afternoon of outdoor painting! Using rollers and sponges to make our own patterns. We discovered that our end result looked a bit like the world map. We were then trying to spot different countries, 'I think that big one is [...]
We have been learning about traditions in different countries and how different people celebrate special times. To begin our Chinese New Year celebration, we learnt that the families will tidy their houses to clean away any bad luck. After that, they will decorate with red and gold decorations as a symbol of good luck. So, we did the same to [...]
We had a lovely Polar Express day today! We were all snug in our pyjamas when we were given our Polar Express tickets. We climbed aboard and soared through mountains and across the snow. We stopped for a snowball fight and even had hot chocolate as a special treat!
Our word of the week is 'sinking', we've been investigating in the water tray which objects sink to the bottom. 'I wonder...does a conker sink or float?' We found that one conker sank to the bottom...and one conker floated. We discovered that a good conker would sink and a bad conker would float. We sorted them into groups - bad [...]
Our Early Years are on the hunt for some new resources for their provision. We are in need of; Small and large tyres Guttering/tubes Cable reels Milk trays Cushions Pallets Conkers / acorns / fur cones / pebbles /shells Log slices Wooden curtain rings Old pots and pans Wooden pegs Planks of wood for construction If you're able [...]
We had a lovely morning in Forest School. We read the story 'Bear Snores On' and we decided to make our own dens for the bear. We used a range of materials to keep it stable during the windy weather! Early Years will have Forest School sessions every Tuesday morning - please send them in with spare wellies on this day. [...]
An exciting couple of mornings in class 1...even featuring a rescued moth!
