This week, we learned about Easter and how Christians celebrate Easter. We created wooden Easter crosses to remind us of the Easter Story. We learned how to safely use a saw to cut wood and practiced hammering a nail to join the pieces together. This is Aaliyah's brilliant cross!
In English, Pippa and Robyn have written a non-chronological report about the rainforest canopy. They have included facts about the trees and animals that live there.
This is a letter Jovena wrote this week. It relates to the book we're learning about in English, Zerrafa the Giraffa.
As part of our Traditional Tales topic, Maddie made 'Mummy Bear' from the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story.
The Wombats have started our topic on printing this week. This week we created hand and finger prints.
In the Chameleons class this week, we used a timeline to order significant monarchs from the past. We learnt some key facts about a few of these monarchs and Jessamy annotated her timeline with some of these facts.
In Foundation Stage this week, we explored colour mixing to paint fruit inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. As we painted, we thought about the shape of the fruits and talked about the colours we needed to make a purple plum, green pear and an orange orange! Here is Caitlyn's great work!
In the Foxes class for English, we have been discussing issues and dilemmas that the robot has faced in our story. Finley has written his thoughts considering whether he should carry on or give up on his journey with the bluebird. Fantastic work Finley, I particularly like the words 'deathly tired' taken from the story.
This is a double page spread by Matilda, exploring the work of Vincent van Gogh. We experimented with different media, including acrylic paint.
This week the children in the Foundation Stage have started to learn about the Arctic, and what animals can be found there. Isla has written some facts about a narwal and a polar bear to match the pictures.
This week we have started to learn about Christianity. We found out what Christians do in their everyday life to show their faith.
Here is a double page spread by Grace about the new artist we are learning about, Marela Zacarias.
