Catch up time!

Here are a few pictures of things the children have been doing in Room 5 during September.

Cole adds a happy face to our board.

Alfie shows his angry face!

Cole and Amelia share animals and playdough.

Callum works on money skills but monkey is his favourite thing.

Paul picks some leaves from our mint plants.

Alfie and Paul

Cole matches numbers.

Fun with our shadowboard.

Amelia likes to make lots of words on the shadowboard.

Weather & Seasons

We are busy finding out about different weather and the four seasons this month.  The children are learning about what they wear and do in different weather and also preparing for the darker evenings and mornings of Autumn and Winter.

This week we made our own rain clouds using shaving foam and food colouring and watched as it dripped through into water in our cups.  The children are learning that big dark clouds are full of raindrops that join together until they are so heavy they fall out of the sky.  Then the sky gets lighter again as the clouds of rain fall to the ground. Although the science is a bit complex they have enjoyed the experiments and making weather art too.

Alfie adds colour to his 'cloud'

Amelia uses the pipette carefully.

Callum watches his 'rain' fall.

Cole uses the magnifying glass to observe.

Paul loves to mix the colours. He knows his primary and secondary colours - clever boy!

Alfie makes a cotton wool cloud...

...then adds raindrops.

Cole making his grey rain cloud

We also decorated cakes this week for the MacMillan Coffee Morning.  We used the theme of seasons and the children chose the best colours and decorations for the cakes to represent each season.

Green icing for Spring

The children's choices

    

  

Cole adds flowers to his Summer cake.

Our finished cakes - can you guess the seasons?

The more we play together ...

We are now close to the end of our first topic about ourselves. Our self portraits are displayed in the main hall which you can see when you come in for our first parents evening.  For the school showcase we have learned a new song with makaton signs.  This links to the original song  but I hope to have a video of the showcase performance here over the weekend.

The more we work together

Our new topic next week is Weather.