EYFS Mrs Barker 2021-2022

We have had a new role play area in our classroom this week.  The children were showing an interest in hairstyles and having a go at putting bobbles in each others hair.  Mrs Ward brought in some curlers and rollers that she no longer needed and the children have loved pretending to…

Our Trip to the Sea Life Centre - Scarborough

We had a fabulous time on our trip to the Sea Life Centre at Scarborough.  We saw lots of amazing creatures.  One of our favourites were the Rays.  We thought they had such cute faces and they made us laugh when they kept coming out of the water to…

What a wonderful musical afternoon we have had today.  We found a nice shady spot and explored the different sounds of the instruments.

First, we closed our eyes and listened carefully to the sounds we could hear going on around us.  We could hear children doing PE, the wind in the trees, cars driving up the drive, footsteps as people walked up the hill and birds tweeting.

We then had to find a musical instrument that sounded the same as the sounds we could hear. 

After that we each choose an instrument and described the sound it made and thought of something it sounded like.

Our instruments sounded like …….

Ducks quacking

Snakes slithering in the grass

Thunder and Lightening

Rain

Father Christmas’ Reindeers

Tinkerbell the Fairy

Elephants stomping their feet

A woodpecker tapping the tree

We were very lucky this morning as some children brought in some treasures that they had found at the beach.

We had crab body and a crab claw, some seaweed and some beautiful rocks.

We thought the crab was very smelly.

To explore crabs further we talked about different…

As part of our topic ‘Under the Sea’ we have read the story Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts.

In this story a plastic bag is blown into the ocean and goes on a bit of journey meeting lots of different sea creatures.

The Jellyfish can’t work out what type of sea creature Stanley is.

Some of the creatures he met got into a little bit of difficulty as plastic bags are not supposed to be in the ocean.

Stanley ends up washed up on the beach and is found by a little boy who turns him into something useful.  He turns him into a kite.