Summer 1

Week Commencing 15.04.23

What a busy week back. The children have been learning all about Spring.

This week we have been : 

* learning about growing and how Spring looks around us. What signs of Spring can they spot on their way to school?

* understanding how to look after plants 

* the growing stages of a plant. Are they growing anything at home?

* having learning about a cat called Jasper and how he tried to grow a beanstalk.

* learnt how to paint flowers from the ground and up. We even challenged ourselves on different lengths using key words such as taller, shorter, longer etc

* introduced to the letter S and what begins with S. Can they spot things that begin with S

* we did some fabulous writing about Jasper and his beanstalk

Week commencing 22.04.23

This week the children have been learning about my favourite book, Handa's Surprise!

We have: 

 * learnt how they say hello in Kenya "JAMBO!"

* read the story of Handa's surprise and learnt how to retell and order the story

* discussed how important it is to eat healthy fruits.

* looked at how we can look after our earth and discussed all the things that make earth sad. We then drew what we would like earth to look like by drawing flowers, birds and plants.

* explored what a computer, mouse, laptop and keyboard does and why we need them.

*  learnt about Guiseppe Archimboldo and how he is able to recreate faces using fruit and vegetables

*  designed our own fruit and vegetable faces like the famous artist, by printing fruit and veg in paint! Very exciting!

*  drew out very own handas basket and had a go at drawing and labelling fruit! We are so good at hearing sounds.

* played cafe and fruit and veg shop in the new role play area. we love paying for things in the shop!