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This week we have been exploring Chinese New Year through our new topic Tell Us A Story. We have been reading The Great Animal Race, the story of Chinese New Year. The children enjoyed exploring animals and learning where they finished in the race.

In maths we explored Chinese number symbols and matched them to numbers, we also explored writing them in glitter.

For sensory baking we explored the touch, taste or smell of Chinese foods and some of us even attempted to use chopsticks.

In outdoor learning we did some races and began junk modelling to make a Chinese dragon with yellow class.

We had two amazing music experiences this week, some children attended the Lancashire music service mobile classroom and some children attended a music workshop with Ben from Lancashire music service.

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We have been learning all about dinosaurs this week through our story Ten Minutes To Bed Little Dinosaur, which has lots of great rhyming words in it. The children enjoyed exploring the story through props and guessing words to finish sentences.

In sensory baking we made rice crispy volcanoes, following instructions and symbol prompts.

This week has been outdoor learning week, we have enjoyed our regular outdoor learning session with Yellow where we did some PE and messy play. We have also planted potatoes, bean seeds and are looking forward to seeing our cress seeds grow.

In maths we have enjoyed exploring shapes to make some dinosaur pictures and have continued to explore numbers, counting up to 5, 10 or 20 - filling in missing numbers and identifying ‘how many’ are in a group.

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We have continued reading Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur. This week we have been practising our mark making, writing and colourful semantics all with a dinosaur theme.

In sensory baking we followed instructions to make shortbread biscuits and then chose what dinosaur cutter we wanted to use to make our biscuits.

As it is Science week we have planted some bean seeds to grow on our window in a bag, so we can see them grow and we have also sown some cress seeds in egg boxes in class. We can’t wait to see them grow! We have also explored fizzy dinosaur eggs using vinegar and bicarbonate of soda, the children used vinegar to dissolve the eggs and see what dinosaur was hidden inside.

During outdoor learning we had a dinosaur treasure hunt finding pictures around the playground, ticking them off on our list and dunking our hands into a bucket of water to rescue the dinosaur eggs and roll them down guttering into a tuff tray!

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This week we are exploring The Gingerbread Man. In story we have read and joined in with the story using props to act out small parts of the story.

In maths we have explored numbers - matching quantities to numbers, making number bonds to 10, adding and subtracting within 20. We have also continued exploring shapes, we did some sensory maths finding the gingerbread man behind shape houses.

We have done some amazing work in Literacy - spelling, matching, finding initial letter sounds, writing lists, colourful semantics and describing pictures by writing a sentence.

In Art we used gingerbread men shapes as a stencil to create a silhouette picture.

Our shared outdoor learning afternoon involved some gingerbread cloud dough, painting and PE activities.

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This week we are enjoying lots of Easter activities and our story We’re Going on an Egg Hunt.

In maths we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes, colouring by number as well as sensory filling and pouring activities. We enjoyed using the light board to explored shapes and colours.

We have decorated Easter eggs and made Easter cards in Art.

During music we explored making sounds and music using the iPads, we also played songs using the bells. We used the ODD balls and Orba’s to explore sound making in the sensory room.

The children followed a recipe to make chocolate crispy Easter nest cakes in sensory baking.