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.

We learnt how to squeeze fresh orange juice and explored different orange juicers. We also explored different shades of orange paint, we made octopuses and role played at the Opticians.

The day was spent exploring the phoneme g. Making homes for the Gruffalo from the blocks, listening to the Gruffalo story on the Vox Block player, making patterns in glitter, exploring different shades of green paint. During the afternoon in our “Messy Monday” session some of us gardened (planting garlic bulbs) and some of us made guacamole

for our afternoon snack.

We had a great morning exploring eggs as part of learning the e phoneme.  Inside the discovery box were a range of eggs which the children compared and talked about. We rescued Elsa by reading the words on the ice blocks and made our own Elmer models. The day was finished reading an Elmer story.

Squirrel needed our help! Leaves were being stolen from squirrel’s tree and he was not happy about it because he just could not understand who was taking them. We tried to cheer him up by making leaf wreathes. We have been learning how to use pva glue carefully and we also talked about suitable leaves and how we could overlap them.
We helped squirrel in the end to understand that in Autumn some trees lose their leaves and that the animals in the story were not thieves! A happy ending for squirrel until… he thinks the grass has been stolen when the snow falls! This story made us smile!

We had fun today learning our new letter and sound ‘l’. Have a look at our faces as we tasted lemon and lime. We explored lemons and limes more closely using the light box and had a go at observational drawing, some of us played snakes and ladders, constructed different structures with the lego and made butterflies from ‘Wow said the Owl’ using loose parts.
We’ve also really been enjoying our song: All the leaves are falling down.