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The Daisies class enjoyed today’s World Book Day activities. We read “Rumble in the Jungle” story book and participated in related activities including animal shadow matching worksheets, reveal the animal binocular PowerPoints, animal jigsaws and animal themed play dough mats.
The moonbeams have enjoyed celebrating world book day through listening to stories and exploring characters in books. We enjoyed participating in a book scavenger hunt to find characters in a variety of books. We were confident individuals when practiced our communication skills using visuals and makaton during a game of guess who where we had to guess what character was being described. We created our own bookmarks. Stories are enjoyed in many different ways and we relaxed during sensory story massage session. We enjoyed solving the book cover puzzles to reveal some well known stories.
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The Snowdrops have shown lots of interest in our class Fairtrade activities. Everyone responded well to songs and stories about Pablo the super banana and hunting for the Fairtrade mark when shopping. Pupils have used different textures to create their own Fairtrade banana artwork and we then made yummy banana sandwiches!
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We found lots of goods with the Fairtrade logo and made a collage with rice, tea and lentils. We froze sliced bananas to see how they changed, played bingo and watched video’s and played songs about Fairtrade. Finally we made sundaes using Fairtrade bananas and ice cream and because it was Shrove Tuesday we added pancakes too!
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The Daisies class enjoyed focusing on Careers Week during today’s activities. We read a story called “Career Day’, watched a song showing the A-Z of jobs and participated in a reveal the job PowerPoint.
Some of us matched some familiar job symbols and others had to identify the career using the equipment as a clue to help us.
Finally we enjoyed a roleplay session where we acted out a range of jobs including police officers, fire fighters, nurses, vets and scientists.
We have really enjoyed learning about Fairtrade. We listened well to the powerpoint telling us about Fairtrade and why it is a good idea to buy food with the Fairtrade logo.
We familiarised ourselves with the logo and went on a logo hunt in our classroom and the corridor. We thought we had found them all but Mrs Smith found one the next day stuck to the window!
We looked at different kinds of food we can buy with the Fairtrade logo and were super logo spotters, finding the logo on the packaging.
We also made rice krispie cakes with some Fairtrade chocolate – yummy!
Another activity we took part in was painting using Fairtrade coffee! Most of us did not like the smell of the coffee but we enjoyed using it as paint on our super absorbent watercolour paper. Some of us thought it looked like parchment from the Ancient Egyptians!
Yesterday we were confident individuals and made pancakes. We mixed the ingredients and then helped to flip the pancakes.
Today we got to choose a topping for the pancakes and then enjoyed eating our pancakes for snack.
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The Moonbeams have been learning about what it means to be fair. The children identified some Fairtrade foods that they enjoy eating such as chocolate and bananas. They enjoyed exploring coffee, sugar and rice sensory trays. The Moonbeams had a competition to make a cake using Fairtrade ingredients. Take a look at our fabulous cakes.
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The Sunflower’s thoroughly enjoyed pancake day by creating their own pancake designs. Each child was able to choose their own pancake and decorate it with fruit and a sauce of their choice. Some pupils were able to taste new foods. We also enjoyed making our own pancake cut and stick faces.
We have been learning about fairtrade. We listened to a story about the journey of a fairtrade banana and enjoyed exploring peeling, cutting, mashing and tasting banana. We explored how the skin looked different on the inside and outside. We loved using the masher and watched how the banana texture changed from dry to wet
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