Sunday 20 November 2016

Children in need

Last week we found out about Children In Need. We learnt about Pudsey bear and how he helps children who are less fortunate than ourselves by encouraging people to raise money.
We decided that we could help raise money by making things to sell. 

Pudsey bear ears - adding 1 more/less than spots onto the ears.


Then printing a band to add the ears onto.

 We made cakes using the balances, using an egg as a weight and balancing the ingredients against it before cracking the egg.


Making biscuits using different Numicon weights.


And decorating these with icing and spots!


Making Pudsey bookmarks


We made signs to show the things we had to sell.
And we managed to raise an amazing £66.46!! Well done Cherry class and your families. Your hard work paid off and will go a long way to helping Children In Need.

We also enjoyed a range of bear themed activities.





Making Pudsey bear yellow playdough

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Bonfire night

We have enjoyed finding out about Bonfire night and the children were very interested to hear about Guy Fawkes and his plot to blow up the Houses of Parliment.
We thought lots about fireworks and explosions.

Fireworks 'zooming' through hoops in the tree!


And noticing you can make a diamond shape when you hold the two ends of the rocket together!

Making rockets with 2D shapes

And building rockets with the cubes then counting back from 10-0, ready to 'blast off'!!




Making spinning Catherine wheels using the salad spinner.





And writing firework words.

We finished off the week with building our very own exploding volcano, building on children's own interests...
We mixed cream of tartar, red food colouring, washing up liquid and vinegar together and ta-da, our very own volcano erupted! We were all very surprised!!!





When the 'lava' stopped flowing, the children wanted more so we added a few more of the ingredients and it carried on!

This is a small snapshot of last weeks exciting learning due to an iPad which could only take limited photos due to being full! It has now been 'emptied' ready to fill up on more lovely experiences.... Watch this space...