In Computing this week, Year 1 explored the drawing tool within Keynote. We are learning to create digital paintings and this week our focus was self-portraits....
In Nursery, we continued learning about sea creatures and ocean habitats. We learned new vocabulary and watched videos that took us in the deep sea, close to the coral reef. We then enjoyed creating some sea animals on our arts and craft table....
As part of sea creatures week we’re decorating a fish by making rainbow scales. They used large duplo blocks to stamp on different colours of paint and a touch of glitter for a sparkle. What a pretty fish!!...
We enjoyed creating a fish tank. We took turns adding different sea creatures, which expanded and grew over time. Then we discussed what our favourite sea creature is and why....
In Nursery, we continued learning about Africa. We explored what animals live there and which ones we could encounter during a safari. We then made some hand prints and turned them into African animals....
In Nursery we continued reading the story “Anna Hibiscus’ song”; we then had a go at pounding yams, like Anna’s aunties do in the book! We soon discovered what hard work that is! Finally, as a reward for the hard work, we tasted the yams....
Our topic book at the moment is “The Drum”. The book focuses on sounds and how “music can make you move and feel”. So sticking to the theme of instruments and music our craft activity for today was to create hand prints on the piano....
Today in the baby room we decorated Father’s Day cards....
During our Art sessions, the children explored and honed a new skill in photography by delving into the fascinating world of cyanotype printing. They studied the artistic technique behind this unique process, and put their knowledge into practice, creating their own beautiful cyanotype prints....
In DT this term, we are designing cars. For our first lesson, we examined vehicles with wheels to discover how the wheels were attached and in which direction they were moving as the vehicles moved. We used the key terms axle and axle holder. We...