Lunar New Year

The children have been learning about Lunar New Year.

They listened to the story of how each year is named after an animal. 
This year is the year of the horse.

The children used story props to retell the story.

The children had an animal hunt.
They made a list of the animals they found in the Lunar New Year story.

The children used scissors and glue to create their own lanterns.

Our favourite part of the week was tasting a range of food from East Asia.

 

Nursery - The Tiger Who Came To Tea

 

In nursery this week, children listened to

 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' by Judith Kerr.

We talked about the story and whether the tiger was right to eat all of the food or not.

Children role played the tea party

And made our own plates for the tiger

 just in case he came back....

...but he never did.

Money Week - Nursery

 This week at John Bramston was money week.

The nursery children got involved in a discussion about money and looked at coins. They looked at the size of the coins, the colour of the coins and the shape of the coins.

Children took the opportunity to count coins,

And play shops.

The children matched coins...

...and sorted them too.

For a nice challenge to end the week, children had to feed the right coins to the piggy bank

The children enjoyed learning about money and had some interesting ideas about where money comes from and how adults earn money :)

The tiger who came to tea

 We have started our new topic - Modern Tales and Rhymes.

This term we will be looking at popular children's authors. 

We began by reading 'The tiger who came to tea' by Judith Kerr.

The children have enjoyed retelling the story in our role play area.

They created shopping lists of food to buy in case the tiger visited.

The children have been learning about tigers.
They created their own tiger artwork.

The children used story props to retell the story.

It must be Christmas

The children were very excited to change the role play area into Santa's Workshop.
There were busy elves wrapping and boxing presents for Santa.

They used clay to create candle holders.
When the clay had dried, the children used their creative skills to decorate the pots and insert a candle.

The Christmas tree was put up in the classroom.
The children chose decorations and used their fine motor skills to hang them on the tree.

The story telling table enabled the children to tell festive stories with their friends.

The children used their phonic knowledge to write simple words related to the Christmas season.

Tracing festive pictures supported the children with their fine motor and creative skills.

The children independently wrote letters to Santa.

During Maths, the children were learning to continue and create patterns.
What comes next in this pattern?

The children used Busy Things to read simple words to help Santa deliver his presents.

While KS1 and KS2 were at the local church, Reception children sneaked into the Y6 classrooms.
They sat at the Y6 desks and created Christmas cards.
They left the Christmas cards on each desk to surprise the Y6 children when they returned.

Merry Christmas!