Winter Time!

We have been talking about and looking for signs that winter is here. We discussed how cold it is and described a range of winter photographs using WOW words including crunchy, white, cold, freezing, squishy, frosty and icy (fantastic words, well done everyone!) We used these words in our writing and created a class poem which will be displayed outside our class along with our fabulous paintings of us wearing our winter clothes and having lots of fun playing in the snow. 

We also looked and played with small world animals from cold places and used ice cubes in our play! We drank squash (with ice) and hot chocolate and talked about when it is best to have an icy drink and a hot drink.

Everyone carefully cut out snowflakes too!

We also made little bird feeders as we talked about how birds need a little help and care from us during the winter time. 

Christmas Fun!

We had fantastic Christmas fun at the end of this term. We made cracking cracker Christmas cards, a shiny picture frame calendar and decorated Christmas biscuits. Our Christmas concert was a great success with everybody looking great and sounding fantastic on the stage. To complete the celebrations we watched the amazing Jono and his magic tricks and had a super Christmas party with delicious food and pass the parcel! 

Many thanks for all your kind gifts and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Children in need!

We has a funtastic Friday this week! To raise money for children in need we dressed in our onesies and pyjamas, coloured in fun pictures of Pudsey Bear, decorated a Pudsey cake and made a Pudsey mask! Thank you everyone for your kind donations! 

Happy Diwali!

This week we have celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali- Festival of Lights. We watched a DVD of Sharm and his family celebrating Diwali, made 'Happy Diwali' cards, moulded and painted Diva lamps, coloured rangoli patterns on the playground and tasted a range of Indian food - it was delicious!

Making soup!

We have been very busy in class tasting, chopping and cutting vegetables for our very own soup. We tasted the vegetables raw and cooked and we also had chunky and smooth soup to taste. We are very proud of all our 'little chefs'!

Our bird visitors!

Last week we had unusual feathery visitors to school! They were birds of prey and a range of other birds too, which included some owls, a small American kestrel and a kookaburra! We all had a chance to see the birds, to ask questions and to handle one of the birds! It was really fun! 

Our autumn walk!

This week we have been looking for signs that autumn is here. We went on an autumn walk around the school grounds including our fabulous nature reserve.We found lots of red, brown, yellow and orange leaves! We also discovered fallen apples and blackberries! In class we coloured our autumn leaves and cut them out!