Wow, what an exciting and
busy time we have had in the last couple of weeks!
Reception and Nursery
children teamed up for a Space day. It
started with an amazing BLAST OFF as we watched Space rocket launches and
listened to Tim Peake talking about his time at the International Space Station. We all became trainee
astronauts and had to prepare ourselves physically with a number of outdoor
challenges – the trampoline jump was by far the most popular! We made rockets – all different shapes and
sizes, some were made with fruit (Thank you to Sebby’s Mum for helping with
this one), explored moon sand, created telescopes and experimented with planet volcanic
eruptions!
We enjoyed a super French
Day – learnt some French – Bonjour and Au revoir - and made French flags. We enjoyed
croissants
at snack time. We all thought they were délicieux.
This week we have celebrated
Chinese New Year, first we learnt what Chinese New Year is and how it is
celebrated. We watched a wonderful video with a Dragon and Lion dance, and
learnt how to say Happy New Year in Chinese Cantonese. We created
our own dragon dance with musical accompaniment. We used books,
puppets and small world animals to learn about the Chinese New Year story and
were engaged in a so many interesting Chinese crafts and activities. There was lots of perseverance and some success using chop sticks! Issy’s Mum came and
made Chinese Mochi cakes – a strawberry Chinese dessert. Thank you so much! It was so much fun!
Here are some more photos of other things we have done.
Using large balls in our PE session
Practising our name writing
Making pizzas - yum!
Playing games and musical instruments as an introduction to our new RE topic - Gathering
Enjoy your weekend
– brrrr… keep warm!
Amanda Corcoran
