Foxes and Owls

What a fantastic start to our new topic, 'All Around the World'.  The children have enjoyed sharing the story of Handa's Surprise, tasting different fruits featured in the story and locating their origin on the globe. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Kwame who shared music and art from his home country of Ghana.  The children throughly enjoyed his music and were inspired to have a go back in the classroom. "The man was banging a drum very loud." Dylan 'Its a long way away and you have to go on a plane.  He lives in a village." Enes "The music was lovely." Nayana The children continued with African  drumming in their music sessions this week. The children experimented cut up fruits and paint to make printed pictures... They have enjoyed using the travelling machine in the classroom I wonder where it will take us next week? 

Key Concept: Learning from Stories The children have already enjoyed learning through traditional tales this half term. The children spoke about their favourite stories. They had a 'Big Read' day, coming into school with their favourite story and dressed in their pyjamas.  The children shared their favourite books with their friends and teachers became the story teller and shared their favourite stories with the children.  We also invited parents into school to share stories with their children whilst enjoying hot chocolate and cookies. We listened to the stories The boy who cried wolf, The hare and the tortoise and The three little pigs.  We discussed what we could learn from the story and what messages they were giving us. We discussed how Jesus was a famous story teller and that his stories gave important messages to the people that heard them.  We shared The Lost Coin (Luke 15:8-10), The Lost Sheep (Matthew 18:10 - 14 / Luke 15:3 - 7), The Good Samaritan (

The children visit the Library every Thursday afternoon so please ensure that they return their library book  for this. It is a  nice chance for the children to choose a different book to take home to read. During our welly walk this week we lit a fire using a flint and steel and sung some  camp fire songs together.