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Whatever Next

Whatever Next

Today, after exploring the solar system for the week, we zoomed off into space. We wore our space helmet and Wellington boots just like Baby Bear. Did you know there are hot and cold planets? We live on earth where there is land and water.

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Natural trails back home

Natural trails back home

Using the story ‘Hansel and Gretel’ we discussed how lucky we are to be able to have access to food and clothing when we need it. We used natural objects to create trails from the wooden house back to our classroom, using super problem solving and team work skills....

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Making a castle

Making a castle

We created a castle for the giant, added beautiful flowers in flower boxes and decorated the castle to make it colourful. We hope he loves the castle.

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A visitor came to see us…

A visitor came to see us…

We had a visitor come to Class 1 during the night, leaving footprints and a letter in our room. We replied to his letter and compared how big our feet are against the giant’s footprints.

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Reception, I’ll blow your house down!

Reception, I’ll blow your house down!

After the Big Bad Wolf delivered materials to our class for us to build houses, he forgot the sticks so we needed to go on a stick hunt of our own. We loved acting out the story of ‘TheThree Little Pigs’ and making houses of our own. The straw came in handy when we...

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When Goldilocks Came to the House of the bears….

When Goldilocks Came to the House of the bears….

This week's key text is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The nursery children followed instructions to make the most delicious porridge to share in the hall after we practised the Goldilocks Song. They wanted to share the song they have learnt with the reception...

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Who ate Miss Salloway’s lunch?!

Who ate Miss Salloway’s lunch?!

We arrived back into our classroom after play time to find that someone had eaten Miss Salloway’s delicious lunch! We decided to use clues to write predictions about who we thought had been into our classroom. We then came up with ideas to stop our packed lunches from...

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Acting out the story

Acting out the story

We had a wonderful morning acting out the story of The Smartest Giant in Town, thinking about the emotions of the characters and what they were doing. .

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