No Buts, It's Got to be Butter!

Oh no, poor Mrs Jones forgot to buy butter for our snack this week.

How can we solve this problem? 

The children said, 'Let's make our own.'

So we did!

We put some thick cream in a container and we had to shake, shake, shake. It was hard work.

We ate it spread on our sandwiches. It was delicious! What a lovely picnic.

We've been so busy this week, we made pastry to make our own vegetable pasties.

It's been a busy week cooking outside too.  

Look at this wonderful construction we're making, working hard as a team.

Forest Schools was fun. We collected lots of natural materials to make crowns and made our own paintbrushes using twigs and grass.

Some of us collected mud and made our own funny face mud sculptures.

It was messy but lots of fun!

Food Glorious Food

We've been investigating food packaging ...

What does it look like? Why do we think we have packaging? What is it made out of? What does the writing say?

Let's make our own packaging.

We've been talking about healthy foods and  decided to make our own fruit salad in Nursery.  Now which fruit shall we choose? Let's write a list.

Apples, oranges, pears, pineapple, strawberries. It was delicious and healthy!

Of course we did our own washing up.

The car wash was busy this week. We got a bit wet but it was lots of fun!

There was a bit of a queue at the bank some days!

Money. Money, Money 

We've been learning about money, can we find any coins in the sand? Then we can spend it in our class shop and cafe.

Let's think about where some of our food comes from. These friends are busy collecting food from the farm.

We read the story of Oliver's Fruit Salad

and decided to make our own. We wrote lists of the fruit we wanted and sent Mrs Hughes shopping.

We ate it in our cafe, delicious!

We even did our own washing up afterwards.

Let's make a graph to find out which fruit most children preferred.

                              

In our maths area we decided to make repeating patterns using different types of beans.

It's Friday so it must be time to go to Forest Schools.

Where are our friends hiding? 'One, two, three where are you?'

Let's look for Bluey our friendly bird.

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Found him!

                 We're collecting green things...

   ... to make a very long snake!

'Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Forest Schools we go.'

Now, where is that Bluey bird hiding today? We've found him!

We're looking for summer clues. We found dandelions, daisies, grass seeds and minibeasts. 

 We wore blind folds to see if we could hear or feel anything without using our eyes.

Our New Topic

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Scrumptious!

Poor Miss Niman went shopping but didn’t take her list so she forgot to buy our snack! We’ve got bread but nothing to go inside to make a sandwich. What can we do?

We've had an idea – let’s go down to the poly tunnel and pick our own salad leaves to make some sandwiches!

Snip, snip, snip, how many leaves do we need?

First we washed the rocket, next we spread butter on our bread and then we ate them – delicious!

Later in the week we picked our own beetroot, potatoes, peas and spinach. Mrs Stevens cooked them and we tried them all.

We made our own vegetable soup in the water tray.

We've been counting in fives and tens this week and we've had fun making our own hand print number lines.

Let's make Cheerio necklaces, we'll count in fives and tens and write our own number labels.

Oh, Another Busy  WeeK! 

We did lots of teeny tiny challenges.

How long can we make a road out of small blocks?

Let's paint using teeny tiny paintbrushes.

We've been practising all of the different writing patterns we're learning...

 ... and our letters.

Driving this car looks fun!

We even bought cakes from our friends in Year 1 and 2 who have been very busy baking.

We've really enjoyed learning about 

Teeny Tiny Things.

These are some of the things we said we enjoyed doing:

Growing the plants.

Jasper's Beanstalk  - 'He watered, he  mowed, he scraped, then it was massive!'

Sorting out the seeds.

Making  a monster house.

Building the biggest chain.

We did pointillism, little tiny dots.

We looked far away using binoculars.

Of course, this week we said 'Goodbye For Now' to our wonderful Reception teacher

Mrs Finucane.

We made her a cake as a secret and decorated it with teeny tiny sweets.

Let's get this party started!

        Mrs Finucane made us jelly, delicious!

Then we gave her the cake, surprise!

She loved the cards we made her.

We love you Mrs Finucane and will miss you, come back and see us soon!