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This week has been 'Life skills' week, the children have explored lots of different jobs and skills for life. They have role played being doctors and learnt about different doctors tools, they have been builders, hairdressers and bakers; they made amazing bread to share with people across school.

We have also continued with our story; this week we have been introduced to some new characters. There are lots of animals who need the giants help, one borrows his shirt to make a sail for a boat, one borrows his shoe to make a house...... It's been very silly and the children have enjoyed it so much.

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Our trip to the bakery to buy some bread.

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We made our own bread.

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For the next few weeks, we will be focusing on the story 'The Smartest Giant', by Julia Donaldson.

The children have LOVED the story this week. So far we have met George, the scruffy giant who buys himself some new clothes.

The children have enjoyed dressing up as George and making him some new items of clothing, such as a tie, socks and shirt. The children explored the properties of the different materials they used and described how they felt (soft, fluffy, rough, smooth).

They did a wonderful job of helping to dress George up and make him look smart.

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Outdoor learning

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Making Krispie cakes in sensory baking.

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Lots of maths this week - look how busy we all are

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This half term, our topic is 'What's it made of?"

We will be;

--> Exploring the properties of different materials and describing properties using adjectives and new vocabulary.

--> Exploring how we can change the state of materials by melting or cooling/freezing

--> Exploring human and natural geography such as lighthouses, volcanoes, buildings and bodies of water.

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This week we have continued with our story 'The Smartest Giant'. The children have thoroughly enjoyed this story and are becoming 'pros' at retelling the story using the props and visuals.

We have focused on our drawing and mark making skills this week, the children did an amazing job are drawing their own giant and designing his new clothes.

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Exploring shapes and patterns

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Fabulous drawing skills

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This week we started our new sensory story 'The Snail and the Whale', another fabulous story by Julia Donaldson.

We talked about 'who' is in the story and created our own artistic representations of the characters; the whale was so big, it took all of the children to work collaboratively.

We have enjoyed lots of lovely water exploration alongside the story and even made our own snail wraps (don#t worry, they were filled with chocolate, not real snails).

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Outdoor learning in the Wild Classroom

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Snail wraps

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This week has been Nicola's favourite week of the year.

We started off with marshmallows at Forest school.

We have continued with our story 'The Snail and the Whale'.

The children have enjoyed exploring all of the sensory properties of the story, such as jumping in the water tray, playing with the snails slime and building in the sand tray.

We also enjoyed our first trip on the bus: we went for a trip to find landmarks as part of our geography topic (and Nicola treated us to a McFlurry for a job well done!)

what a jam packed week!

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Maths fun in the Wild Classroom

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Exploring the sensory properties of the story

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Bus trip

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Toasted Marshmallows at Forest School

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It's been a wonderful end to the term, especially with it being 'children's mental health week' and the emphasis on doing things which make us happy, finding ways to relaxing and thinking about people who we love and who are special to us.

We are excited for a little rest over half term and then coming back for a new topic and lots of fun as we explore a "Blast From the Past".

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We made kites and had fun flying them outside in the wind.

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Making chocolate chip cakes in sensory baking

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Making our maps in geography.

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Exploring vibrations in music.

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Children's mental health week - exploring things which make us happy.

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Lots of maths this week :)

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Outdoor maths games

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We enjoyed using the foot spa and having a massage.

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We made junk model sea creatures, inspired by our story The Snail and the Whale.

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Soothe and groove in light room.