Diwali, Bonfire and Outdoor Learning

Our superstars this week are:

Harley and Kodie

for resourcefulness and responsibility.  Well done both of you.

It's a new half term and a new topic for us, leading up to Christmas we will be looking at celebrations.  We started off this week with looking at Diwali, this is a Hindu celebration and is the festival of lights.  We used rice and coloured sand to make our own Rangoli patterns, we used clay to make our own Diva lamps, we then listened to the story of how Diwali began and we acted it out using masks of the characters.

The next celebration we looked at was bonfire night, we loved talking about fireworks and the loud noises that they make, we enjoyed making WHOOSH, BANG, POP, FIZZ noises together.  Our role-play area is now a bonfire night food stall and fire.  We have been busy buying, selling, ordering and 'eating' all the food and drink from the stall.  We have been very kind to each other and shared the different roles.  We have also been 'writing' receipts out when people order their food.

A further thing that we have been doing this week is being 'Shape detectives', we had to help the superheroes, Circle and Triangle, to find the shapes that they needed after the shape catcher had muddled them up.  We were super awesome at doing this!

On Friday, in outdoor learning, Miss. Grimmer brought us some more pumpkins and set up a crown making activity.  We LOVED hitting the pumpkins with hammers and stomping on them so they were broken up for the wildlife to eat.  Some of us used great team work when moving big branches, collecting leaves from the pond and rescuing 2 large branches too.  We also enjoyed using the mud kitchen, one of us got very, very messy!






















































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