Our focus story has been The Tiger who came to tea. We found out strange how the tiger drank tea from the teapot spout! Today, we drank tea from a teacup and we made fresh hot cross buns. We loved the experience but many children didn't like the hot cross buns (but some had two halves!).
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Thankyou for your patience whilst we have been dealing with changes to IT systems and new equipment. This has meant I haven't been able to blog for a few weeks so here are some photos to catch up on. 

We celebrated by having a great day yesterday - the children looked amazing so thankyou parents! We had a Julia Donaldson themed day so our activities centred around her lovely stories. In the afternoon, the Year 4s popped in to read us their own versions of Zog.

It's important that children begin to learn about other cultures and we do this in EYFS by learning about celebrations. This year, Chinese New Year is between 17th February and 3rd March so this week we have been learning about it. 
We have had a Chinese restaurant in the home corner; practising how to use chopsticks. We also learnt about the Great Wall of China and then the children built their own wall across EYFS!!! We used a trundle wheel to measure how long it was... about 16 metres!!!! A group of boys built a Chinese Restaurant (after a story we read set in Hong Kong harbour) and then built another Great Wall from it.
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This week we have continued to learn about pirates - what they look like and what they do. On Wednesday, the children baked heart biscuits as a celebration of Valentine's day; I wonder if they gave their heart away??????? 
Have a fabulous half-term everyone - let's hope for some sunnier skies!

Last week, our new focus story 'The treasure of Pirate Frank' focused on pirates and treasure maps. We loved talking about treasure and drawing maps with volcanoes, swamps and forests! There was some creative building going on in the construction and small world areas - pirate ships and pirate places to live.
We made rocky road; it was filled with lots of treasure for us - marshmallows, jellybeans, crunchy bits, maltesers, sprinkles... 
​In Maths, we were learning to record number in different ways and learnt that 6 and 7 are made from 5 and a bit more.

We have been learning more about space! We learnt that although people can't live in space, astronauts can travel to space and live on the International Space Station. We watched a video to see what it's like there - it was funny to watch the astronaut floating around with wavy hair. She even showed us the toilet and we didn't think it looked very comfortable! 
We also made space collages - learning, again, how to rub a crayon to wash colour across the paper. 
In Maths, Bear Cubs were learning about 5 currant buns and we baked some too. In Big Bears, we were learning about the composition of numbers.

Last week, we read 'Whatever Next' as our focus story. It's about a bear who flies to the moon so we have been thinking about rockets! We learnt how to manipulate card into cylinder and cone shapes and how to join them together. We learnt about these shapes in Maths and talked about their curved and flat faces. We also learnt that a ball shape is called a sphere and the moon is a sphere.
Big Bears learnt about the word 'roaring' and when we watched a shuttle launch we understood that not only lions roar. We know a poem about giants that roar so we did HUGE roars when we recited it.
We made honey cake because when bear went to the moon he took a jar of honey with him. It was sweet and sticky!

This week we have been learning about things that are old and things that are new. On Tuesday we brought our teddies in and spoke to everyone in the class to tell them about our teddies. Quite a few children brought older teddies in because they were given when they were born. Other teddies were new because they had been given at Christmas. It was lovely to meet everyone's special teddies!
On Wednesday, we had a visitor in FS2 who came in to talk to us about road safety. He showed us, that just like Mr Potato Head we need to have our eyes open, our listening ears and walking feet to be able to cross the road safely. The children coloured their Mr Potato Heads brightly so if it was at night time he could be seen in the dark.
Bear Cubs made us delicious, chewy and stick flapjack on Wednesday.

Christmas activities have started in EYFS and we are all in the Christmas spirit except the elf seems to causing some mischief...