Pre-School-Expressive Arts and Design- Valentine's Craft
The children have been busy using different materials to create Valentine items. The children have used cutting techniques to cut foil and tissue paper to make paper flowers. Making cards for the people we love, writing their names into the card and designing the front cover. We have mixed coloured glue to make different marks and watched what happened to the colours.
Nursery - Geography - Who's House Is This?
Linking with our story, the three little pigs, Nursery class have been investigating different houses. We used google maps to find the childrens houses and see if they recognised who's house it was. As a class we discussed if our houses were made out of straw, sticks or bricks and looked at the number of windows and other features of the houses we saw. The children were able to quickly identify their own houses and they proudly showed them off to the their friends, telling each other who lived with them at home.
Reception - Maths - Exploring Height
Today in reception we have been looking at height. The children have learned new vocabulary such as tall and tallest, short and shortest. We read the story, Titch and had a go at ordering objects by size. Then we measured each other on our height chart, recording the results.
Reception - Maths - Length
Today the children have been exploring length. We read the story Super worm and then using play dough we made our own Super-worms! The children had to place them in the correct order from longest to shortest. We then talked about how we could measure them, we selected some cubes from the maths shelf to work out how many cubes long they would be, with the children estimating first.
Nursery - P.E - Three Little Pigs Yoga
During P.E this week, Nursery class have taken part in some yoga! The children moved their bodies in different ways to represent significant events in our story, The three little pigs. The children followed the instructions well and really enjoyed using their gross motor skills, pretending to be the little pigs and the big bad wolf!
Pre-School- PSHE- The Colour Monster
The children have been developing their understanding of their emotions this week to support Children's Mental Health Week. We listened to The Colour Monster story and worked through all the different feelings and why we might feel this way. The children created their own monster of how they were feeling and added them to a jar.
Reception Class - Making Chocolate Mug Cakes!
The children were so excited this afternoon as we finally made our chocolate mug cakes. The children have been learning about ingredients and recipes this week, and our story has been Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. The children had to follow the recipe, carefully counting the number of spoonfuls of each ingredient. We then talked about what would happen when we cooked the mug cakes in the microwave. Some of the mug cakes rose so high, they spilled over the sides like a chocolate volcano!
Reception Class - Learning About a Recipe
The children have been exploring ingredients and learning about recipes today in preparation for making their chocolate mug cakes this afternoon! We looked at the ingredients we needed, the amount and the order we would add them. We then looked at the cooking method and the final product.
Nursery - Maths - Constructing A Brick House For The Little Pig
Our focused story for this week has been 'The three little pigs'. The children have been experimenting with different materials to build houses for the pigs. Today we made brick houses with the lego. The children persevered when linking the blocks together and made some beautiful structures for their pigs to live in. Some children used positional language in their play describing the placement of their bricks, 'on top'. We then pretended to be the big bad wolf to see if our brick houses were strong or if they would fall down!
Reception - Class Worship - The Good Samaritan
This week in Class Worship, the children learned about kindess and dignity through the story of The Good Samaritan. The children spoke about the things they would do to show kindness to others.
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Preschool-Literacy-Likes And Dislikes
Our story in Literacy is Handa's surprise, All the children were given the opportunity to try all the different fruits from Handa's basket, The children shared their views by showing a thumbs up for likes and a thumbs down for dislikes of the fruits.
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Nursery - PSHE - Likes And Dislikes, Trying Chinese Food
To finish our week after celebrating Chinese new year, we tasted some chinese food. The children tasted 4 different foods typically found within chinese cuisine. Everybody was willing to give these new food items a little taste, on the menu today was, egg fried rice, noodles, prawn crackers and spring rolls. Some children expressed their opinions with thumbs up or thumbs down, others used sound effects such as 'mmm' or 'yukk' and some children vocalised 'yummy' and even asked for 'more please'. The children really enjoyed snack time today!
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