1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden Mrs Noden’s favourite nursery rhyme We all talked about our favourite nursery rhymes. Mrs Noden told us that her favourite nursery rhyme was “5 currant buns in a Bakers Shop”. We made currant buns in our messy Monday activities; we learnt to balance the eggs in a cake mixture with all the other ingredients and we all had a go at whisking. We used the currant buns in our maths lesson the next day to help us learn about comparison and using the stem sentences: ….. has more than…..;…… has fewer than ……. We also set up a bakers shop in our role play area.
1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden How to Catch a Star We had been reading “How to catch a star” by Oliver Jeffers in reading skills and as part of our story telling week activities we searched for our own stars around the forest schools area and then made them into star pets. We took our star pets on adventures and told them stories. Some of us even took our stars to the seaside and they got trapped in the long seaweed (the daffodils) when they were swimming in the sea!
1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden Nursery Rhyme History We found out that some nursery rhymes are very old and that they can tell us what life was like in the past. We focused on the nursery rhyme: “Wee Willy Winky” and explored how the preparations we make for bed time now are different to the preparations that children made in the past.
1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden An exciting parcel Last Monday the King of Nursery Rhyme land sent us a parcel! This contained a letter about how worried he was as all the nursery rhymes had been mixed up and also the great Nursery Rhyme book. We read through the nursery rhymes and worked out how they were mixed up and then talked about our favourite nursery rhymes.
1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden Protecting our plants Whilst we were out at Forest Schools we were worried that some of the other children in our school would not see the lovely plants that were emerging from the winter soil. So we decided to make signs to show that there were plants growing and that children should be careful!
1 year ago Posted on 09th Feb 2025 by Emma Noden Lunar New Year Traditions We found out all about Lunar New Year traditions – writing wishes for a wish tree, making a special dinner to share with all our friends, making decorations, lanterns, red money wallets and cleaning the home ready for the new year.
1 year ago Posted on 03rd Feb 2025 by Emma Noden Chinese New Year https://hodnetschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/o_61895_9xwy09w80ar7xkzapyqkezn4cyzq6bd6.mp4
1 year ago Posted on 22nd Jan 2025 by Emma Noden Brooms sticks Today the Fairies left us a letter telling us that we had forgotten a vehicles that Mr Gumpy could have used – a broom. We read a story about Winnie the Witch and how she travelled on a broom. Then we made our own brooms and travelled around forest schools on them.
1 year ago Posted on 21st Jan 2025 by Emma Noden Bike afternoon After we had spent the morning riding our bikes we compared photos of our bikes to photos of bikes from the past. We used the words similar and different. During busy jobs time the children took on roles of bike mechanics in the bike repair shop, the children took their roles very seriously! We also used bike wheel art work to inspire our own bike wheel art.
1 year ago Posted on 21st Jan 2025 by Emma Noden Bike day Today we bought our bikes into school – Isaac said it was the best day at school! We rode our bikes in the morning, talking a lot about bike safety and how we could keep safe on our bikes. We chose to wear hi vis jackets as it was cloudy and grey. The children were kind and courteous to the other riders. Mrs Noden taught us about road signs and we followed a one way system. When the traffic lights were changed to red we practised stopping and not starting again until they had been changed to green. We also learnt o stop at the pedestrian crossings.