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During garden time, the Sunflowers have explored a variety of ways to catch items. Each child experienced items moving towards them such as ribbons and a different sized balls. After practicing our catch skills, we enjoyed running and tig games with our friends in the Daisies class!
We have settled well into school and are enjoying lots of different activities.
We have made name rockets and put them above our SMARTboard. We made lots of “s”crafts and this week have been doing “a” crafts – we made alligators, apples and ants on an ant hill.
We made a collage of different numbers with lots of different coloured squares.
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The Daisies class enjoyed playing a pair shopping game. Each shopper was given a shopping list and had to hunt around the classroom looking for their items. Once they had everything in their basket, they had to go to the cashier and pay for their shopping.
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The Daisies class loved exploring themed sensory trays today. We explored a range of vegetables in soil. We also used a peeler and peeled carrots and potatoes and explored their skins. Finally, we washed the muddy vegetables and had discussions over which vegetables floated in water and which sank.
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The Sungazers have started our new topic ‘Farm to Fork’ and have been learning all about where our food comes. We have been discussing foods that we like & dislike, as well as foods that we think are good for our bodies.
We made a fresh snack using Farm produced foods:
We continued practising our life skills by making our own Pig Biscuits. We used a mixture of healthy and sugary foods and talked about how it is good to eat sweet treats in moderation. These treats were more of a hit in the class, believe it or not!
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The Snowdrops have shown lots of interest in our new theme story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Everyone has responded well, exploring lots of story visual aids and pictures. We have also been learning some new Makaton signs for the different fruits and foods the hungry caterpillar ate. A favourite activity this week, has been creating sensory caterpillar bags and choosing different foods that we thought our caterpillars would like to eat. The Snowdrops showed interest and participated actively in using gel to fill their caterpillar’s tummy, making personal choices and using their fingers to make the food pictures move about.
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The Asteroids class had lots of culinary fun this week as we made our own Asteroid- style vegetable soup. We explored the vegetables first by touching and smelling them, then following our recipe cards, we had to wash them, ready to be chopped to go in the pot. We were all responsible and handled the knife sensibly to chop up the different vegetables. We found the onions the smelliest of all! Next we measured water into a jug, then crumbled a stock cube in. We all enjoyed mixing the vegetables in the big pot before Miss Wilson cooked it. When the soup was ready we enjoyed smelling and looking at our finished dish. Good job, Asteroids!
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We tried to guess which items would float and which items would sink. We weren’t always right! Some items even floated for a wee while then sank! We had great fun. We’ve also enjoyed a treasure hunt, made ‘star’ sandwiches and made tree pictures as we explored seasons.
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The Daisies class were very responsible looking at the global goal ‘Zero Hunger’. We looked closely at some pictures (the hungry caterpillar, Oliver Twist, Bruce Bogtrotter) and discussed whether they looked hungry or full.
We also spoke about how we would feel if we had a full tummy and also how we would feel if we had a hungry tummy.
Finally, we spoke about food that we liked and disliked and sorted them into categories on a poster.
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Investigating foods with seeds
The Moonbeams have had great fun learning through food this week. The Moonbeams were inquisitive Scientists as they explored and investigated fruit and vegetables with seeds of different sizes. They discovered that some foods had none, only a few or too many to count. The Magnifying glasses helped them see the really small seeds clearly. The children had great fun especially squishing the tomatoes and making lots of mess!
Investigating where Eggs and Milk comes from
The Moonbeams were learning how eggs and milk were made at the farm. The children were very interested in the processes and had great fun exploring eggs both raw and boiled. They especially enjoyed pretending to milk a cow!
