Inspired by A Starry Night

We experimented with acrylic paints last week in our art sessions, exploring the textures we could make by layering paints in different ways. We were inspired by the famous piece of artwork: The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough.

Making butter

We made butter from cream, using a butter churn, some jars and bouncy balls and then shaping using butter pads. We watched as the liquid cream turned into butter, we talked lots about the changes we observed.

Learning about harvest celebrations

We learnt about Harvest celebrations around the world but focused on Christian celebrations in England. Children explored photos of different Christian churches decorated for harvest and talked about what we could see. We also looked at the harvest loaf and listened to lots of Harvest music that might be played in a Christian church at a harvest service.

Exploring l

On Friday morning we arrived to discover that we had each received a letter from Squirrel thanking us for helping to identify the leaf thief. Hopefully our efforts will pay off and we will discover who the Leaf Thief really is next week! Today we explored Lavender, created repeating pattern accessories with lemons and limes, compared the weight of lemons and limes, applied our knowledge of 4 in a game of Connect 4, made our own creations with Lego and played follow the leader games in PE.

The leaf thief strikes again!

Would you believe it? The Leaf Thief strikes again! All when we have been trying to work hard learning all about the letter that makes the /f/ sound. Fancy freezing flowers and leaves! We just could not believe it! We worked together to free the leaves from the ice. We created WANTED posters of the suspect and have displayed them on our classroom window in the hope that we capture the leaf thief.

 

A leaf theif!

“There’s a Leaf Thief on the loose!”
Squirrel left us a message this morning to say that some of his leaves were missing! The Forest Fairies asked for our help in scaring away this thief. We asked ourselves, “Who could this leaf thief be?” As we crept to our woodland, we kept our eyes peeled as we searched for clues. In the woodland, our Forest Fairies had left some magical dough for us to make faces on the trees. We used our own faces to make different expressions before setting to work creating scary and angry faces with fallen forest treasure. We manipulated the dough by patting, rolling and stretching to the size we wanted. Here you can see our creations along with some of our facial expressions.

Finding the difference

This week in our maths sessions we have been finding the difference between two amounts, in order to support our understanding of this we built two towers and found the differences between the two towers.

Autumn poetry hook

Next week in our English lessons we will be writing some Autumn poetry, using all of our senses. We went into our forest schools area and used all our senses to create ideas for our poetry next week.

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