Gingerbread Man

We have been learning about the Gingerbread Man.  We have participated in lots of different Gingerbread Man activities and thought it would be a lovely way to end this topic by decorating our own Gingerbread Man.  We used icing pens and chocolate buttons to decorate him. We all had so much fun and can not wait to taste him!

Letter sound 'd'

This week we have been learning a new letter sound- 'd'.  We were all able to find lots of things that begin with 'd' such as doll, dummy, duck, drill, drum and many more.  We can't wait to find out what our new letter will be.

Autumn Term 2013

This week we began our first ‘Move a Book’ session with Jane Bellamy. We participated in a creative movement session which was linked to the story of The Three Little Pigs. We know this story very well as we have been learning about it for the past two weeks with Miss Jenkins.

During this session we used different parts of our bodies to perform movements and scenes from the story to music. We were able to share lots of ideas with Jane, including suggestions of different ways we could use our body parts to move, representing different parts of the story.

We thoroughly enjoyed participating and can’t wait for more next week! 

Potatoes

This week we harvested the potatoes we had planted.

We dug them up, washed them weighed them and ate them.

They were delicious!

Sunflowers

We are having a sunflower growing competition. First we decorated our own flower pots then we filled them with soil, put in some sunflower seeds and watered them. After a few days all of the sunflower seeds have grown. Some are bigger than others, we have taken them home to replant and see if we can grow a beautiful sunflower. We are going to bring in photographs in September to see who has the best and biggest sunflowers. Look at us planting them in our photos below.

Bob the Builder

We have been trying out some new toys and seeing how we can be just like Bob the Builder.

We all had to make sure we were wearing hard hats and high visibility vests just like real builders. Then we used tape measures to measure and recorded sizes and also wrote a list of the things we would need to get for our building projects.

Finally we built our buildings.

Take a look at some of our photographs to see us in action.

Minibeasts

We have been learning about mini beasts. We have learned some new songs including “What a beast” and “Spider spins”. We played games and had to try to identify the mini beast when given different clues. We used the information we had learned to be the author and illustrators of our own books about mini beasts.

We have made some dragon flies and had to design their bodies and weave ribbon into their wings to create some patterns. Take a look at some of our photos showing how we worked to find out about mini beasts and some of our beautiful finished dragonflies.