Twinkle, twinkle little star

Class 1

This Friday’s theme is night time and the nursery rhyme is Twinkle, twinkle little Star. Class 1 found out about nocturnal animals and made some from clay and paper, used torches in a dark den and constructed rockets to fly to the stars from a variety of materials. Some children made night time pictures. They did some drama based on the story of the Missing Moon.

Class 2 explorers

Class 2 have been finding about about the sort of equipment explorers might have used in the past. They have made things for an explorers camp.

Class 1 The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe

Class 1 explored the nursery rhyme through drama. They retold the story, asked questions about why the old woman ‘didn’t know what to do’, and talked about different endings for the rhyme.
Suggestions included - ‘she kissed them and cuddled them and sent them to bed’ , ‘she read them a story.....’ ‘she put their pyjamas on and brushed their teeth....’, ‘ she gave them a bath.....’.

During plan, do, review they chose to design shoe houses, make a scroll telling the story in pictures, make furniture for a  ‘shoe house’,and make their own little books. In the role play area they cooked soup, tidied the house, wrote shopping lists and recipe books.

Class 1 Spring term

On Fridays this term, class 1 are using nursery rhymes as a starting point for their work. They made a collection of nursery rhymes and chose some to write out and illustrate.
During plan, do, review they built vehicles to carry bags of wool. made collages of sheep and made symmetrical patterns using wool and paint.

Class 3 art

During the autumn term class 3 experimented with patterns and different methods of printing. They made books with their patterns and prints.