All about me

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. 

Autumn

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.

Harvest

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'.