P1, P2 and P3 have been practising their Nativity ‘Born in a Barn’ and are excited about showing it to their grown ups, family members and friends. P3 do all the acting and P1 and P2 help with the singing and get to sing a song all by themselves.   Keep looking for some pictures of our show.

Our teachers asked us a question – Can you see in the dark?  We had a discussion to find out what we thought the answer might be.

Some of us thought YES we could because our eyes would eventually get used to the dark and then we would see.

Some of us thought NO we wouldn’t see because there would be no light in the dark place so you wouldn’t be able to see and you would need a torch to see.

Some of us weren’t sure.

How could we find out the answer?

We decided that we had to find a dark place in the school to that we could find out.  We thought it had to be somewhere that no light could get in.  Not the classroom because even with the blinds closed you could see light coming in.  Not the cupboard because we couldn’t all fit in and the light came on automatically.

We decided a good place would be Mrs Fletcher’s PE cupboard.  It was big enough to fit us all in and had no windows in it.

Everyone got into the cupboard and sat down with the lights still on. Then we had a count down and switched off the lights.  Could we see?

No we couldn’t.  We couldn’t see anything.  One of our teachers turned on a red and blue night light and we could see the colours but as soon as it was switched off we couldn’t see again.  Can you see us?

Rex the ranger brought us a hedgehog hotel for Spiky, it is a box with a tunnel in it so that Spiky will be safe and foxes and badgers can’t get in.

First we had a discussion about where we could put the hedgehog hotel.  We decided it had to be…

Next we went with our teachers and walked round the school looking for a good place to put the hedgehog hotel.

Is this a good place?

Or this?

We looked round the school and found a really good place that was suitable for Spiky to hibernate and where we thought he could get enough worms, slugs and snails to eat before he went to sleep.  We are not going to tell where the hedgehog hotel is so that Spiky stays safe.

Then we carefully put the hedgehog hotel down and began putting leaves inside for Spiky to stay cosy.

Next we began covering the hedgehog hotel with leaves so that it was camouflaged.

Finally we were satisfied.  Can you see our hedgehog hotel?

Happy hibernation Spiky – see you in the Spring.

It is very exciting because we are beginning to use our sounds to work out how to spell words – amazing!

We had fun using die, cubes and white boards  to  create number stories.

Rex the ranger came to visit us.  He brought a hedgehog hotel for Spiky our hedgehog to hibernate in. We are going to find a safe place in the school grounds to keep him  He also asked us to help him because he is starting a new job in the forest working at night and is a bit worried because he doesn’t know what to do.  We think he should find out about the nocturnal animals so that he can help them and the moon, stars and planets so that he can tell visitors to the forest all about them.  Watch out for what happens.

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We used our models and drawings to help us make up our own

hedgehog stories.

Can you tell from our pictures what a hedgehog likes to eat?