Turtles & Dolphins (Foundation Stage Unit)
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We went to The Jungle this morning to build some beanstalks.
Do you like our paintings of King Charles?
This week we have been celebrating the King’s Coronation. We have been making the union jack using resources from around the classroom. We also went on a walk around the village to look for things connected to the Coronation.
We acted out the Coronation and crowned our own King and Queen.
We made sandwiches and cakes for our royal tea party hosted by the King and Queen.
The King and Queen greeted us. We then took our seats and had our tea party.
We have been exploring 3D shapes. We tested them out on ramps to see which ones would roll the best. We talked about why the cylinders and the cones rolled better than the pyramids, the cubes and the cuboids.
Then we made our own ramps and tested the cylinders and cones out on them.
We were set the challenge of making a daffodil using different resources and this is what we made. 
We are definitely getting ready for Easter. We started the week off by having egg and spoon races.
Spring is in the air. We explored The Jungle looking for signs of Spring.
We were set the challenge of making a 10s frame.
We went on a Safari this afternoon. We saw lots of animals and we even heard a gorilla!
We had great fun taking part in some pancake races this afternoon!
We made Chinese dumplings to finish off celebrating Chinese New Year.
Ruby from West End in Schools came to work with us today. She taught us a dance linked to the Chinese New Year story.
We are celebrating Chinese New Year. Today we flew to China. We did a little bit of sightseeing and tried some Chinese food before flying home.
We made boats out of tinfoil. Then we put marbles in them to see how many it would take to make the boat sink.
Our new topic is ‘Around the World.’ We have made models of different types of vehicles. Can you guess what they are?
We went to The Jungle to decorate the trees for the woodland creatures.
We have been celebrating Diwali.
In PE we have been working on our balancing skills. Today we played a game where to balance pieces of equipment on our friends.
We walked around the village looking for poppies. We paid our respects at the anchor.
Thank you to everyone that came to our Firework Party. It was another enjoyable and successful evening.
This week we are learning about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We went to The Jungle to have a campfire and toast some marshmallows.
To complete on learning about Autumn and Harvest we made pumpkin soup and bread. We also explored The Jungle looking for signs of Autumn.
We have started to learn about Autumn and Harvest. We have been busy making pumpkins using salt dough.
This week we have been learning about Zog. We used plasters to make him feel better.
To finish off our learning about The Gruffalo. We made a crumble – it wasn’t Gruffalo crumble but blackberry and apple crumble.
Today, we had great fun making a Gruffalo using clay. When they are dry we are going to paint the features.
We made a den and we pretended to be the Gruffalo.
Our topic this term is Julia Donaldson. This week we have been reading ‘The Gruffalo’. Today, we made Gruffalo faces using jaffa cakes. 
