EYFS Mrs Barker 2021-2022

What a busy week we have had celebrating Chinese New Year as part of our whole school Cultures Week.

We began the week by sharing the story of The Chinese New Year – The Great Race.  We found out why each year is named after a different animal and how they chose who would be the first…

Tricky Word Warriors

Do you like our collection of Word Warriors who help us to read lots of tricky words and help us to use them in our writing?

What helpful little friends we all are.

We’re going on a shape hunt, we going to find some big ones, we’re not scared, what a beautiful day!!!!

What a beautiful Welly Wednesday we had searching for shapes.  Just look at how many different shapes we found.

We collected lots of sticks and twigs and had a go at making our…

Colin the Chameleon

We have really enjoyed having another special visitor to our classroom.  Colin the Chameleon joined us for Phonics, he helped to give out the boards and pens and we all had a go at writing his name.  We did a fabulous job sounding out Colin.  Colin also did a fabulous…

Welly Wednesday

We really enjoyed our afternoon exploring outside in our lovely school grounds.

We first noticed that the trees looked different.  We stopped and talked about what had happened to them.  We remembered that back in Autumn the leaves change colour first and then fall…

We had a new member of the class join us today.

He sat beautifully on the carpet for register and was very well behaved.

He helped us with our sounds during Phonics and enjoyed joining in our Maths session to write a number line up to 10.

What a superstar superhero!!

This week we have been exploring counting in 2's.

We brought pairs of socks in from home and created a washing line in the classroom.  We loved counting in 2's to find out how many socks we had.

During our Maths sessions we created a number line using the willow numbers and then collected…

During our Time to Talk session this afternoon, I asked the children ….

Do you think Polar Bears and Penguins are friends?

There were a lot of mixed responses with some children saying yes and some thinking no because the Polar Bears would eat the Penguins.

They were very…

We have been exploring stones and rocks.  This is because one of the children brought a little stone into school to show his friends.  He really loved the shape of the stone and said it looked like a dinosaur tooth.

We all had a look and a feel of the stone and we also thought that it looked…

What a fabulous morning we have had exploring the ice that Jack Frost had left for us in our outdoor area.

We searched for signs of Winter and found lots of lovely frozen things.

We used tools to break the ice and used the ice to build an igloo for the penguins.

When we had just got…

Our new topic is called Winter Wonderland.

We will explore:

The changes that happen during Winter

The types of weather associated with Winter

The places that have snow all year round and the types of animals that live there

We are really looking forward to this new topic and…

What a fabulous afternoon we have had, talking about and exploring pirates.

Our 'In the moment' activities started with reading Dylan's pirate story that he had brought in from home.  We really loved the story and wanted to explore pirates a bit more.

We made up adventure stories with…