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.