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Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025
Share Our Learning 2025 - what a wonderful time we had welcoming our grown ups into Hedgehog's Class. We shared what we have been learning about recently; life cycles of animals, and then took part in lots of exciting and interesting activities. We taught the grown ups our Makaton song and also got them to take part in a Bush Tucker trial. It was so much fun! Thank you for learning with us!
Yesterday was French day in class. We looked at the different words for French colours and months of the year. Then we looked at some French foods making French flags from baguettes and paints and making our own croissants. In the afternoon me looked at French monuments, modelling our own Eiffel Towers, piecing together pictures and making silhouette art. We finished the day with a 'Tour De France' in the playground!
In Hedgehogs class we have been looking at the festival of Holi- we have discussed why the celebration takes places, who celebrates it and what happens during the festival. We last week we made our own powder paints from cornflour water and food colouring and after letting out, they were ready to be used for our own paint festival today.
Today we explored Royal Feasts/Banquets in History- we looked at what items we might have on our Royal Banquet, colouring in pictures for our own feast and tasting items also. We made our own feast invitations and goblets to have at our banquet table.
In Hedgehogs class we introduced our new story 'The Cook and The King' - we were introduced to the cook 'Wobbly Bob' - he has lots of fears in the book so we used our comprehensive skills to explore what Wobbly Bob's fears are through sensory trays. We went fishing (for words) in the shark infested ocean, dug up potatoes (with different letters on them) from the soil - making sure to avoid the insects, used 'knives' to chop up our playdough potatoes (developing out fine motor & independence skills) & finally fried the kings fish and chips in the sizzling pans (exploring the environmental sounds of the kitchen). We then used our writing skills to make record of these. We also incorporated some phonics into the session looking at the environmental sounds from the kitchen, some phase 2 letters and some segmenting/blending and high frequency words. It was so much fun to put on our chef hats and aprons and embrace the role of Wobbly Bobs!
In Hedgehogs class we enjoyed exploring Chinese New Year through a range of sensory activities. We explored sensory bins, number and writing activities in Chinese and some sculpting activities making snakes. We even enjoyed some food based play and tasting- we used coloured rices to mold snakes, explored noodles and chopsticks and finished by tasting some Chinese foods!
We have been looking at poems relating to Kings and Queen's. This week we looked at the poems 'Sing a song of six pence' and 'The Queen of Hearts'. We explored what the characters of the poems were doing through sensory trays. We incorporated other aspects of our learning into the trays, by counting the kings money, overwriting letters found on the maid's laundry and practicing letters and marks in the Queen's bread tray. We also made jam tarts and painted with different flavour jams.
Welcome back Hedgehogs class! This week we have enjoyed exploring materials in Science. In Maths we decorated a crown with different shapes and put the washing on the line in the correct number order.
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
In school we have celebrated St Andrews day. In Hedgehogs we enjoyed learning all about Saint Andrew. We explored sensory trays with visuals of Scotland and fun facts. We have also made shortbread and got messy with our handprint thistle paintings.
Space- Our Science topic is space and we have been learning about rockets in DT- here are examples of some activities we have been doing. We all particularly enjoyed trying on the rocket costume!
Aliens love underpants- We have been reading the story 'Aliens love underpants'- these are some of the activities we've done linked to the text.
French Café- Our French topic this half term in 'French Café' we have been practicing greeting each other, selecting foods and joining in with café role-play.
