WINTER

Winter

We have begun to look at a new topic this week - Winter.

We have read the story Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara. 

We then tried to remember what happened in the story and draw our favourite parts.

 

Jack Frost took the little boy's hat off.

I like the little boy and the dog. Jack Frost comes from Winter.

The boy and Jack Frost had a snowball fight.

They were playing.

I like the dog. I liked when they built a snowman.

We have also been making snowflakes for our Winter display.

RMcCabe - Autumn

Last week the children were learning about Autumn changes. They created repeating patterns and dens for hibernating animals. They also explored problem solving, colour mixing and observational drawing.

In maths we have been exploring different ways to make 10. First we practised accurately counting to 10 then we split them in different ways. The children linked these two groups to the Numicon pieces and began to match number bonds using the Numicon to see how the shapes fit to make the same total. Some children verbally described their findings as number sentences.

Red group took their investigations further and recorded the different ways that they made 10 in number sentences.

 The children have done really well problem solving independently. They created a shape using 5 cubes, then created 4 more shapes in different ways. Everyone worked with resilience, even though the cubes were quite difficult to put together, and everyone succeeded!

Just look at this fantastic observational drawing of Autumn leaves! 

Rec Bishop - Observational drawing to be really proud of!

Rec Bishop - Working with Mr Ward

Rec Bishop - Who will help me make my bread?

Rec Bishop - The wedding guests have arrived!

RBingham - Celebrating Diwali

Diwali

The Festival of Light

This week, we have been busy learning about how Hindus celebrate Diwali - The Festival of Light.

We wrote about how Diwali is celebrated.

After listening to the Diwali story of Rama and Sita, we used puppets, props and masks to retell the story in lots of different ways.

We also used our large construction kit to build thrones for Rama and Sita.

In our role play house, we had to get ready for the celebration by cleaning everywhere! Then we put up decorations.

We made diva lamps using our playdough.

We are very proud of our Rangoli patterns, which we made using 2D shapes and also with coloured stones and sequins. 

Best of all, we had our own Diwali Party, where we tasted a variety of Indian foods, such as rice, vegetable pakoras, vegetable samosas, onion bhajis, naan bread and poppadoms.

At home, you might enjoy watching CBeebies 'Let's Celebrate - Diwali'. Our class certainly learnt lots of information and could answer lots of questions about celebrating Diwali.

HAPPY DIWALI!