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26 February 2021

Role Play Supermarket

We have been having a lovely time shopping at Sainsbury's oooppps I mean Roseberry's.

We have looked carefully at the prices and found the right coins to pay for our shopping.

For some of the prices we had to think about our number bonds and our addition skills to work out which coins we…

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25 February 2021

Food Rainbow - Art & Design Activity

We have been very busy in the Art & Design Area creating drawing, paintings and even some collages of different coloured fruits and vegetables.  We used our pictures to build a food rainbow.  We think it looks amazing on display outside our classroom.

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23 February 2021

New Food Inventions

As part of our new topic we have been looking at different fruits and vegetables.  We wondered why fruits and vegetables were the colours that they are and thought what if they were the same shapes but different colours and flavours.

We think our designs are amazing.

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22 February 2021

Can you eat a Rainbow?

We are really enjoying our new topic 'Are carrots orange?'

We have been exploring all the different colours of fruits and vegetables.

Our question to ponder was 'Can you eat a Rainbow?'  At first we thought "Nooooooooo, you can't eat a rainbow"

But! we found out that actually you…

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12 February 2021

Our Beautiful Work - Cultures Week - Chinese New Year 2021

What a fabulous end to a fabulous week.  We have had so much fun learning all about Chinese New Year.  We have worked so hard to produce some truly spectacular pieces of work, both at school and at home.

The children working from home have worked amazingly well and I am so proud of every single…

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12 February 2021

Cherry Blossom Trees

As part of our activities this week we have been busy creating Cherry Blossom Trees.  At school we used twigs to make our tree shapes and then added scrunched up tissue paper for the blossom.  There were lots of different creations made at home using pipe cleaners, toilet roll tubes, drawings and…

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10 February 2021

The Great Wall of China

The children had lots of fun both at school and at home again today building their very own Great Wall of China.

They used lots of duplo and lego to build walls indoors.

The children at school also had a go at making the Great Wall using snow.  They used different sized containers to make…

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9 February 2021

Chinese Numbers, Zodiac Animals & Chinese Greetings

We have been busy again at home and school.

We started today's activities off by learning how to say Hello in Chinese.

We were very good at saying Ni Hao for our register this morning,

We have also been exploring Chinese Numbers and having a go at writing our own Chinese number lines.  We…

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8 February 2021

Cultures Week - Chinese New Year

What a fabulous start to our week of celebrating cultures.

In Reception we are exploring Chinese New Year and we started our activities off by watching a video all about how this very special occasion is celebrated.  We saw ribbon dancing, dragon dancing, lots of beautiful decorations…

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4 February 2021

Spike - The Hedgehog who lost his prickles

We have been reading the book Spike - The Hedgehog who lost his prickles.  This is a story aout a little hedgehog who has a scary dream about a fox.  When he wakes up in the morning his prickles have all fallen out.  

Poor Spike!!!   He tries wearing lots of different things to stop himself…

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3 February 2021

Junk Modelling Nocturnal Animals & Diorama's

We have been busy in school and at home making models of Nocturnal animals and Woodland Diorama's using junk materials.  

I think these look fantastic.  Well Done Everyone.

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2 February 2021

Fun at the Dough Disco

We had a lovely time at the Dough Disco with our Nursery Class.

We showed them how to squish and squash and squeeze the dough into lots of different shapes.  We rolled the dough to make long sausages and rolled it again to put it back into a ball shape.  We made doughnuts, caterpillars and…

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