On Wednesday, we received an invitation in the post from Squirrel inviting us to his bonfire party! When we arrived in the Woodland, Squirrel was not there because he was busy preparing for the party. He had left his to-do-list though so we could give him a hand preparing.
Our photographs show us singing a bonfire song which we added to in our work in music this afternoon, making natural sparklers by tying the leaves to a stick using a pipe cleaner, talking about safety around the fire pit and how Mrs Gregory would create the fire. Finally, we enjoyed the edible sparklers that we made using chocolate melted on the fire by Mrs Gregory. What a super morning we all had.

We really enjoyed our visit from a helicopter!

We took part in lots of role play – exploring different careers we could have; being scientists, working in a doctors, working in a vets, a beauticians, a hair dressers, an explorers, a train driver, an ice cream shop, a bakers, a cafe, an authors office and an archaeological dig.

During our careers and aspirations week we explored careers we could have that involve vehicles. We enjoyed the car wash and the garage.

We learnt the phoneme b and made our own bread and butter. We read the recipe together, identifying the tricky word the in the recipe. Then we measured the ingredients using cups and spoons. We mixed, kneaded and shaped our dough, it was then baked in the kitchen ovens. In the afternoon we made our own butter using a butter churn.

We explored the phoneme h, creating a hat shop, reading Hairy McClairy, creating crazy hairstyles, role playing at the hair dressers (which was a real hit!) and cutting herbs. In the afternoon we learnt about our village Hodnet and explored an ariel view of the village, learning about places we would see in Hodnet and places we would not see in Hodnet.

We learnt the phoneme ck and explored different rocks. We compared rocks with our friends and sorted different rocks according to their characteristics.