Spring
World Book Day
We had a super day celebrating World Book Day this week. We read fairy tales together, listened to stories read to us by older children in school and shared our favourite books with our friends in the classroom. We also made the fairy tale characters Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf out of card and practised speaking their most famous lines in the fairy tale with a partner in our best storyteller voices. What a lovely day we all had!
Children’s Mental Health Week
This week it’s Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is
This is my Place
We talked about the places we feel like we belong and are cared for and loved. We drew the places and the people we love on our very own place maps. We really enjoyed this activity and sharing our special places with our friends.
Where in the world do we live?
We are really enjoying finding out about our city of Newcastle upon Tyne and where we are in relation to other places in the UK. We have had fun using atlases and Google Earth to locate our home in the north east of England and how we might travel to other places in the south of England like our capital city of London. Where would you like to visit in the UK? We were excited to find out that in Newcastle, we are much closer to the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, than our own capital city.
Hibernating Hedgehogs
We had so much fun this week at Scotswood Natural Community Garden learning all about hedgehogs! We know that hedgehogs are mammals that are warm-blooded and we know that in the colder months they will hibernate. We carried out a scientific experiment to see if we could maintain a warm temperature for our 'hedgehogs' in a hibernation nest. We also went on a hedgehog treasure trail to see if we could find some hedgehog treasure which they would love to eat. We found millipedes, worms and lots of woodlice in the garden and woodlands areas. We then found out some amazing facts about hedgehogs. Do you know that they weigh about the same as a small bag of flour and that an adult hedgehog can have between 5,000 and 7,000 spines on its body to help to protect it from predators? Ask us what else we have learned about hedgehogs... we might surprise you!
A big thank you to Jennie and her team for making our day so special.
Be your favourite animal!
Marlen, one of the PE coaches is teaching us 'Dance' this half term. This week we enjoyed choosing our favourite jungle animal and dancing like them to a piece of music. We loved being elephants, monkeys, lions and tigers to name a few.
Art and Design
We have learned about different drawing techniques like circling, stippling, hatching and shading, and we have practised these techniques in our art books. We have enjoyed studying Gustav Klimt and some of his famous artwork. We have used a range of drawing techniques to recreate one of his paintings. It was so much fun!
