Our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies settled back into school and started learning all about Winter. The children enjoyed exploring outside and looking for signs of changes in the weather. Each class left some water in our outside areas and checked each day to see if it was frozen. The children were excited to talk about the changes that they noticed and recorded their findings in their ice diaries. In maths we have been exploring weight and capacity and learning lots of new mathematical language.

This week started with our Brilliant Beginning for our project 'All about Animals'. The Early Years children took part in an exciting Jungle Animal Workshop. They have begun storytelling 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell and have drawn their own story maps. Look out next week for recordings on Seesaw!

What an amazing start to our new project: Emergency! The children all looked amazing dressed as Emergency Workers for our Brilliant Beginning! We had fun sharing our different choices and why they are important to us. We have also been exploring the features of non-fiction books this week and using the facts we have learnt to help us create a range of emergency vehicles. We spent a long time thinking about the colours, shapes, purposes of the vehicles and even included working wheels!

We have enjoyed exploring musical themes and emergency rescues during our Outdoor Learning sessions, creating our own pulley system to rescue people!

On Thursday, we kick started our exciting range of speakers to come in and talk to us about the jobs they do to help us. We were visited by a Dentist team who spoke to us about the importance of looking after our teeth.

We have had a great start to our new project: Fire, Fire! We have been busy immersing ourselves in our fabulous new project, Fire! Fire! We investigated how the Earth revolves around the sun anticlockwise, spinning on its axis. We had great fun recreating this in order to show how this gives us our seasons. This week for our Brilliant Beginning we became dragon hunters! We discovered lots of clues that led us to believe that a dragon had landed on our playground!! The dragon even left some dragon eggs behind!! We have spent the week finding out more about dragons including how they are usually represented in stories, closely observing their eyes and scales.

We have also been participating in some science experiments, including a candle experiment to help us learn what fire needs and creating our own chocolate rocks, exploring how heat can change the state of a solid.