What a sunny Wednesday we had!

What a lovely day it was yesterday! We made use of the lovely sunny weather and did all our activities and jobs outside in the sun!

Lots of drawing, colouring and reading

This is our fab new adventure playground!

We loved playing in the new construction site we have outside; digging, scraping, building, climbing, sharing, turning and twisting.

Year two gardening club week two

This week we did the prickly job of getting rid of all the nettles in the playground.

We dug out the grass and weeds of another one of the troughs. We put bark and twigs down to encourage bugs into our new nature area.

We have also used twigs to wrap and weave around and make a hanging ornament to attract new birds.

The end of a super week in Reception!

We have been working hard all week in reception. Developing our team building and negotiating skills.

Working on our creative and imaginative skills.

Working on our construction and design skills.

Working on our role play and imaginative skills.

We have been taking every opportunity to practise our writing skills, even outside during PE!

Jack's picture of King the chick

Jack has produced an amazing picture of the chicks on his computer at home. He named one of the chicks "King".

Thanks Jack it's fantastic!

Year Two Gardening Club

On Tuesday we started the new Gardening Club. Seven year two children have started to dig over the boxes on the pencil playground and have planted some beautiful sweet peas in one of them. We did lots of weeding, digging, raking and planting. We found lots of bugs; worms,beetles and centipedes.

Before

After

We're meeting next on Tuesday. Mrs Edwards and Mrs Daniels 

Continuing our change and growth project this week

This week we are continuing our work on change and growth, and looking at the chicks. We have been making pop up chicks and learning the "nine little eggs in an incubator" song, for our creative development.

We have been doing some comparing work, looking at mathematical words like; taller, smaller, wider, higher, lower, larger, shorter, bigger....

Day twelve of the chick diary

We knew the time would come when we had to say goodbye to the chicks, but it still wasn't easy. We were all very sad. We have had an amazing time having the chicks in class for these past two weeks. We have watched them grow from little chicks hatching out of their eggs to bigger chicks flapping around in the broader box.

 It has been a fantastic experience which I believe all the children, staff and parents too have benefitted hugely from. Thank you to all the children and parents for all their comments and involvement! Maybe we'll have to have some more again next year!!