Our first topic is all about me. We learn all about each others families, which family members live in our house and how all families are different. We look and name the features of our faces and using mirrors and creative materials the children create their own self portraits.
We have been learning all about the season Autumn. We have felt and described different autumnal objects such as leaves, pine cones, acorns and conkers.
We are learning about what changes happen in Autumn. We have looked at the weather becoming colder, how the leaves have changed colour and have fallen from the trees. We have spoken about how some animals hibernate and what they do to get themselves ready for hibernation.
We are learning what happens during the festival 'harvest'. We will talk about when you harvest you pick fruit from the trees and you dig up and pick vegetables from the land. Harvest festival is a celebration of food grown on land. We talk about how lucky we are to have food and that some people do not have any food and are starving. We explain the food collected during the harvest festival will be shared and given to people who do not have money to buy food.
To celebrate harvest we sing songs, pray and decorate our school with baskets of fruit and food. We are learning 2 songs ‘Mr Scarecrow’ who scares birds away so they don’t eat the seeds that the food grows from and 'Big Red Combine Harvester’ that is a machine that cuts the wheat and other plants so they can be eaten.' to celebrate the 'Harvest Festival'.
We are learning about Diwali and how it is the celebration of light. We will talk about the story of Rama and Sita and how they were guided back home from the light of diva lamps.
To celebrate Diwali the children made their own diva lamps from clay and decorate them with different media such as glitter, beads, gems and paint.
To remember the soldiers that fought in the war we have learnt that we hold a minute silence on the 11th November. We have looked at the similarities and differences between families, soldiers and the uniform that they wear from the past to now. We have learnt that times were hard and that food had to be rationed. The children were immersed in a trench experience to think about how the soldiers would have felt during their time at war.
We have been learning about the season Winter. We have spoke about what we like to do when it is winter, the clothes we need to wear and hope that it snows so we can build snowman and have a snowball fight.
We are learning about what changes we will see moving from Autumn into Winter. We looked at a place called Antarctica. It is the world’s windiest, coldest, iciest continent. We learnt about the animals you will see there and did an ice experiment. First we felt the ice and spoke about how it melts from a solid to a liquid. We then tested 4 bowls of ice to see which would melt the quickest by placing different ingredients on top. We used sand, baking soda, sugar and salt to melt the ice. When we put the salt on the ice it made a popping sound.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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