Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have been learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We turned the home corner into the bears cottage, painted pictures of our favourite character and wrote descriptions of them. We have sorted bears, bowls, chairs and beds into different sizes and ordered them. We made and tasted different types of porridge and made a simple chart of our favourite one. Baby Bear’s honey porridge was our favourite.

We have really enjoyed learning about the story of Goldilocks but cant wait to find out about the story of the Gingerbread man.

Sad News

Sad news in Mrs Ward’s Class

When the new children came into Mrs Ward’s class Talking Ted made a very sad announcement that he has retired. He is too old to keep visiting the children’s homes each weekend so he is retiring to the book corner where he is looking forward to the children reading stories to him everyday.

However in his place he has sent us a very special friend Maesy . He is a monster and has already enjoyed visiting some of the children He has been to parties castles allsorts of places. Each week he chooses one of the children to stay with. They take him everywhere they go and take photos and draw pictures of the things they have done. When he comes back to school on Monday all the other children ask questions to find out where he has been and what he has been doing. Take a look at him with the children in Mrs Ward’s class.

 

Big Bad Wolf

Learning about “The Three Little Pigs”

We have been learning about the three pigs and the big bad wolf. We really loved the story and have enjoyed using the puppets to retell the story.

We made straw, stick and brick houses. On our welly walk we looked for different shapes in the buildings and houses by our school and we collected some sticks to make the stick houses. We looked at the textures and took some rubbings of different surfaces.

We have learnt to play “What’s the time Mr Wolf” and sequenced different times of the day.

We painted and collaged characters from the story, made play dough pigs and Wanted posters to describe the Big Bad Wolf.

Look at some of the photos of our learning.

Write Dance

The children in Miss Davies’s class have been enjoying taking part in a literacy initiative called Write Dance. Miss Davies has been teaching the children to develop their pencil control and letter formation skills through dance. The children listen to music, practise a specific dance and then use the dance to draw on large pieces of paper. It has been great fun!

Outside and Gardening

The children have thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine this term! We have been planting a variety of seeds, plants and flowers and have been recording their progress. We have also loved reading in the sunshine, building in the construction area and playing in the sand and water. Many thanks to Daisy Moon and her family who have also donated a wormery to our class. The children have collected fruit peelings which we placed in the wormery and we found loads of worms during our welly walks! 

 

Welly Walk - April 25th

The children and staff went on an exciting welly walk to observe whether the birds in the local area had eaten the bread, bird food and lard balls we had left for them previously. We were pleased to see that all the food we had left had been eaten up by the birds.

The children asked why we do not have many birds in our outdoor areas. We discussed birds habitats and how we could encourage birds to our school. As a result we are making bird feeders and nets to encourage birds to visit us. Look out for them in the Reception yard over the coming weeks!

Bristol Zoo Photos