Foundation Stage

What a fantastic way to finish off our Minibeasts topic! Laura from Animals UK introduced us to some of her creepy crawly friends including an African millipede, a stick insect and Charlotte the tarantula. Laura told us lots of interesting facts about the animals and we also got to look at them…

After reading Yucky Worms! By Vivian French, we made our own wormery. We had great fun and we are enjoying watching them work. 
 

The children in Foundation have enjoyed learning about minibeasts. We have been reading a range of Eric Carle stories as well as sharing some information books. They can now tell us lots of facts about different minibeasts and have enjoyed writing some riddles, labelling a ladybird and writing…

We have been learning the composition of teen numbers. We have enjoyed playing lots of different games. 

We have been learning about different kinds of puppets and looked at some from a long time ago. We then had to design our own finger puppet. We could choose any character either from the traditional stories we have been reading or any other characters we know. We had to think carefully about what…

We have been very busy in maths. We have enjoyed playing naughty kangaroo and looking at different combinations of 10. We can now work collaboratively in pairs and small groups. We are getting better at concentrating for longer periods of time.

We loved being outside today. We practised our throwing and catching, balancing skills, target throwing skills and dodging and weaving through the cones and ladder.
 

To celebrate British Science Week, we have been investigating materials. We pretended to be the Big Bad Wolf to test the strength of different materials. We made predictions about which we thought would be the strongest materials. We then tried to blow away bricks, pom poms, chocolate, paper, wood…

We have enjoyed learning about Traditional Tales. This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have enjoyed acting out the story, making bears out of play dough, trying porridge and writing an apology letter to the bears from Goldilocks.

We have been taking part in lots of games with the Parachute, it was so much fun! We listened to instructions to changes places with a friend and even pretended it was a spaceship and hid underneath it!    We also enjoyed singing whilst playing some ring games and had to take turns to go in the…

We loved World Book Day! We all came dressed up as our favourite book character and shared our books with the rest of the class. We’ve also been learning all about traditional tales and acting them out with role play props.  

We have had such a brilliant World Book Day! We have loved dressing up, listening to different fairytales and making bookmarks.