Last week, Nursery Class Forest Schoolers had fun walking along the canal to see if they could spot swans, cygnets or ducks with sheets to tick off if they saw them.They also had fun counting bridges, barges and cyclists. What a lovely experience!
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Reception Class – Autumn Leaves
Last week, we had a little break from out trips out for Forest School and enjoyed a nature story, Leaf Man, and some nature crafts instead. Lovely leaves were made from card, oil pastels and wool in all the autumn colours.
Reception Class Learnt About Diwali
Last week we delved into lots of learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights. The children enjoyed Traditional stories, songs and dancing and we dyed rice to use in Rangoli pattern making. We also enjoyed making traditional clay pots called Divas and we are...
Nursery Class September Round-up
Autumn Trees We have spent the week discussing Autumn time, what the weather is like and what the trees look like during this time of year. We then drew around one of our arms and fingers to make our very own tree before using Autumn colours to decorate it. Each of...
Reception Class’ Forest School Session
Last week, we took our session to Rosemary Gardens to look for the treasures on our autumn scavenger hunt cards. The children worked fantastically well with a partner, taking turns to tick off the things they spotted on our stroll. Keen to find conkers, we wandered...
Reception Class Forest School – Autumnal Leaf Printing
This week at Forest School, we went out in search of leaves for autumn leaf printing. We had a good look and chat about different coloured and shaped ones, and played 'leaf snap' to compare. A request for races downhill has become a bit of a thing in our class and...
Nursery Class’ First Forest School Session!
Yesterday we had our first Forest School session in the mud kitchen and we had so much fun! We spent she time digging with the spades looking for conkers and then we learnt how to safely use a hand drill (by placing it on a block and drilling, not in our hands) before...
Reception Class Celebrate IWD Weaving like Anni Albers
Anni Albers wonderful weaving inspired us to do some of our own in Reception. She was our chosen artist for International Women's Day and we LOVED making our own weaving frames and working with different sorts of fabric, just as she did. The children enjoyed finding a...
Reception Class Forest School
The relentless rain meant that Forest School last week was cut short for Reception Class. They made the most of the bit of time they had there, collecting sticks for our weaving looms, and using the secateurs to cut them to a good size. As you can see there was also...
Nursery Class’ Story time with Year 6!
This morning we were visited by the children in Year 6 who came to read us stories for World Book Day. We all really enjoyed this and it was nice to chat to the older children and get to know them a little better 🙂
