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Week 2 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We have 5 caterpillars that we are very excited to watch grow We have been learning about the life cycle of caterpillars How many days we each think it will take for our caterpillars to change into butterflies! Our minibeast role play area!

Week 1 - The Queen's Jubilee

We decorated triangles to make Jubilee bunting We created art based on 'Kandinsky's Circles' We looked at 'complimentary colours' to choose the colours we wanted for each cirlce We made our own 'Where's Mrs Queen?' lift the flap books

Week 5 - Starry Eyed Stan

Our story this week 'Starry Eyed Stan' links to sea creatures and being a good friend Small world imaginative sea play Skittles for developing our aim, turn taking and maths Loads of fun and creativity making cards Representing numbers in different ways

Week 4 - Commotion in the Ocean

This week we have started to learn about the ocean and sea creatures We explored mixing paint to make different shades of blue for the sea and a dolphin We also enjoyed exploring mixing primary colours to make different colours!

Week 3 - Toys in Space + Environment Day

We have been looking at the story 'Toys in Space' and then talking about our favourite toy We drew a map from the park to our school to help our 'lost' toys find their way back! We have been finding ways to help look after the Earth by recycling paper We went out to watch the recycling bins being emptied We have also been adding our fruit waste to a compost bin on our playground We all took part in a drama workshop about Superhero's saving the environment

Starry Night by Van Gogh

Class reward pyjama party!

Week 3 - Post Office

We enjoyed playing in the Post Office roleplay area this week We pretended to deliver new furniture to the dolls house We set up 'Happy Land' with different buildings and roads We painted flowers for Spring! We also painted pictures relating to our Post Office theme this week

Week 2 - Firefighters

We dressed up as fire fighters and ran around putting out fires with pretend hoses We pretended the dolls house was on fire! We used toy fire engines and 'water' to put the fires out! We painted our own fire pictures

Week 5 - Elmer in the Snow + Chinese New Year

We pretended to cover Elmer in 'snow' like the story We drew and painted our own patchwork elephant pictures We made stick puppets of animals from the story We enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year and chose to make our own restaurant! We enjoyed continuing different parts of our learning whilst playing

Week 4 - Jack Frost (story) and Winter

We made Winter/ Jack Frost pictures in a range of ways... - printing in paint with sponges - crayons and paint - drawing - collage We discussed how we could melt ice then tried in a range of ways... - melting by the radiator - melting with salt - melting with warm water - leaving out to see how long it would take to melt Some of us dressed up and pretending to be 'Jack Frost' freezing water and other things We continued some of our Maths learning as we played We practised writing numbers We enjoyed loads of different books + We made links between some of the stories that we have read this week We especially enjoyed making slides to drive cars down!

Week 3 - One Snowy Night (story)

We made a house for some animals to keep warm like in the story We enjoyed playing with white orbeez as pretend snow Each day we have been looking to see if the water froze into ice overnight We remembered that polar bears eat seals/ reindeer and seals eat penguins... ...so we tried to hide the animals in the shaving foam 'snow' We painted animals and Percy's hut from the story

Week 2 - Polar bears (and Arctic animals)

We made our own Arctic animal masks We painted Arctic animals and Arctic scenes Our penguin hatched out of the egg! We made Antarctica for penguins and the Arctic for polar bears We made maps to plan a journey to the Arctic and Antarctica We used binoculars to hunt for penguins We found more ice! We made our own binoculars with boxes

Our class elf!

We've got a special visitor in Pippin class...

Every day Santa has been sending one of his elves to visit us!

We voted to call her Sky.

We're excited each morning to see where she's hiding and what she's been up to!

Our Nativity!

Thank you for coming to watch!

Week 7 - Stick Man, Christmas dinner & Christmas in the forest

Week 6 - The Scarecrows' Wedding

We dressed up, made rings and pretended to get married like the scarecrows in the story The scarecrows lived on a farm so we made our own farms We also enjoyed playing with orbeez

Week 5 - The Gruffalo (and Christmas!)

Making Gruffalo masks Drawing The Gruffalo and the deep dark woods Making ourselves into elves Retelling the Nativity story Wrapping presents

Week 3 - The Smeds and The Smoos

We mixed red and blue water to make purple! We made our own alien pictures We made aliens and models with knex We made planet pictures We played with red and blue playdough for 'The Smeds' and 'The Smoos' We compared how many toys the aliens had We've been talking about who has 'more' and who has 'fewer' We explored orbeez in water We made cakes in the mud kitchen

Acting out Zog story

Week 6 - Little Red Riding Hood

We enjoyed acting and retelling the story We drew wolf pictures with BIG eyes and BIG teeth! We drew and painted pictures of Little Red Riding Hood We made medicine for Little Red Riding Hood's Grandma We enjoyed feeling and playing with red slimy jelly!

Some of us chose to make a boat and test to see if it would float!

Week 5 - The Three Billy Goats Gruff

We made our own goat masks We looked for the sounds that we've been learning in the water tray We enjoyed washing and drying up We poured, scooped and mixed to make magic potions We used tweezers to pick up autumn objects We love this funny book of smelly stories We enjoy playing with the sand

Week 4 - The Three Little Pigs

We retold and acted out the story We made pig pictures We built houses for the three little pigs

Teeth brushing

We have been learning how and why we need to look after our teeth.

We used toothpaste and toothbrushes to brush teeth pictures clean.

Week 3 - Jack and the Beanstalk

We planted bean seeds We made beanstalk pictures with a collage of different materials We made harps like Jack stole from the giant in the story We made our own Jack and the beanstalk picture books We made beanstalk towers and used shaving foam for the clouds

Week 2 - The Gingerbread Man

Counting Gingerbread Man playdough

Week 1 - Goldilocks and the three bears

Looking at books Playing with babies Painting Cooking in the mud kitchen Climbing Getting letters out of ice Writing the first letter of our names Counting spoonfuls of oats for bears porridge Playing with the sand Drawing Building towers Making characters from Goldilocks and the three bears
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