Today we have PE. The children will be changing into PE kits today for the first time. Once we are in the hall we will have a warm up - playing the cone scatter game. Then we will gather and recite Hickory Dickory Dock. Adults will introduce a variety of instruments to represent the clock from the rhyme. Each instrument will be played, loudly, quietly, quickly or slowly and we will ask the children to move in a way that represents the rhythm or sound they are hearing (big, small, fast or slow movements). Then we will play a game where they can move freely around the hall until they hear the clock chiming (a hand bell) then they need to stand still - like a statue before moving freely again. To cool down we will listen to calming music whilst lying on the floor and doing finger breathing. Then we will return to the classroom to change back into uniform.

Today the children are going to be creating a Christmas Card!  They will be building on the gluing and sticking skills that they learnt last week.They will need to choose coloured strips of paper to decorate the tree. They need to use glue spreaders to spread the PVA glue and stick down their strips. They will need to remember to use the right amount of glue and to smooth their strips of paper onto the tree. Next they will need to cut out a small pot for their tree before they stick this on. Finally they need to peel off a start sticker and place it on top of the tree.

Today we are going to be exploring shapes. Sebbie told us that apples are ‘round and circly’! Jessica told us that apples are circle.  We will begin today by looking at images of 2D shapes (circle, triangle square), encouraging children to name them and describe them. Then we will look at real fruit and vegetables before exploring making ‘round, circly’ apples with dough. We will talk about how it feels and how it looks. Then we will make long triangle shapes, a bit like a carrot, again describing how it feels and looks, using words such as curved, pointy, flat and straight. We will look at the star inside an apple and challenge children to make a similar shape. We will also look at triangles of melon and cubes of pineapple - repeating the process described.

Kai, Marsaili, Sebbie, Teddy and George talked about liking different types of juice (they mentioned lots of different fruits), Fiadh also talked about liking smoothies. Today the children are going to do a ‘taste test’ with three different types of juice (apple, as George suggested, grape, as Kai suggested and orange, as Marsaili suggested). We will ask them to describe the smell, look and taste of each juice. When they have tried all three we will ask them which is their favourite. Adults will then give each child a sheet and explain that they need to mix and paint a colour to represent their favourite juice and then add their name (using the pinch and flick technique and an appropriate pen grip). Adults will model how to mix the colours and then the children will each mix their own colour before painting with it, we will encourage the children to recall the colours that they used as a base to mix their new colour.

Friday

Today we have the Big Soup Share. We are looking forward to finding out which vegetables we have been given and how we can prepare them to make them into soup - we will encourage the children to describe them - talking about what is the same, what is different and what they notice (Marsaili was keen to look. The children will be involved in all aspects of preparing the vegetables and herbs - washing vegetables, chopping vegetables and snipping the herbs. We will focus on safe and purposeful use of tools throughout. Adults will model how to use the knives, peelers and scissors, focusing on using a firm and effective grip. We will explain that all our prepared food will be sent to the school kitchen. Mrs Beechey (school cook) will cook the soup and then everyone in school today will have the opportunity to share and taste it. To accompany the soup the children will have toast. They will need to spread the butter themselves, adults will model how to spread and use the knives safely. We will highlight that it is important to eat healthily to gain energy - we are making a healthy meal today.