Today we noticed that some of the children were running around the yard trying to catch their shadows. We brought out some interesting resources to encourage ‘talk’ about shadows. The children were fascinated by the coloured blocks cascading the colour on to the yard and we talked about why this happened. The children began to draw around Miss. Dixon’s shadow and then all of a sudden it disappeared from the yard. Lots of the children wondered where it had gone and some of them looked straight up into the sky and realised that the sun was hidden behind some clouds. This work continued on into the afternoon and some lovely team work was shown from the children. They found a partner and took turns to draw around their shadow, trying to make interesting shapes with their bodies.  We also lined up the dinosaurs to look at the interesting shadows that were made.

The children in Reception have been busy producing self-portraits this week. We have encouraged the children to look carefully in a mirror before drawing and to add the details they could see. These self-portraits look wonderful in the classrooms on display with all of the interesting comments that the children made whilst they were drawing.

Some of the children began making kites this week in the art area and this sparked off a huge interest with the other children. The art table has been full of children colouring, sticking and cutting all week! After the children had completed their kites they went straight outside to test them.

Today the children were extremely excited about visiting the Big Purple Play Bus which spent the day at our school. They all had an absolutely amazing time exploring the slides, soft play and ball pits. Today was an excellent opportunity for children to build confidence, show off their balance and gross motor skills, test their communication skills and to take controlled risks!

Classes 1 and 2 have had an interesting visit from some nurses telling the children all about the importance of washing their hands. They used glitter to show the children how quickly germs can spread around the classroom and to other children. We all practised washing our hands thoroughly and learnt a new song to help us!

On Monday our ‘living eggs’ arrived in our Reception classes. The children have watched and waited very patiently and today when they arrived at school they discovered six chicks in the incubator! Throughout the day two more have hatched. Ideas for names were placed into a basket and randomly chosen by the children.

Welcome to the world…Peter, Aurora, Chippy, Fish, Daisy, Max, Tommy and Becky!

We are all enjoying learning lots of facts about how the chicks grow and hatch and we can’t wait to hold them once they are stronger and are allowed out of the incubator.