Alfa/Romeo class – Summer Term 2, 2024

Week 9 and Week 10

This week we read the story “Granny goes to market”, where Granny flew around the world buying lots of different gifts. Later she sent us a basket of fruits from some of the places she had visited. We had lots of fun exploring them and tasting them before we voted for our favourite……..which was mango!

In group times FS2 have been learning about sharing, where we have to make sure people have equal groups to make it fair. We also looked at how these numbers can also be odd or even. We explored lots of ways of grouping and sharing together.

We then found out that Granny had been to a very cold place…The Antarctic!  We explored pictures and videos to see what it would be like there and we even helped Miss Howard pack a suitcase as she always gets mixed up about what she needs. We then explored some different ways to make Antartic pictures. FS1 mixed and explored with paint whilst FS2 explored collage with paper.

We also made our own ice lollies to see how the water freezes and turns to ice in the freezer. We cut up the fruit, squeezed the juice out of the oranges and lemons, mixed in some water and then poured into moulds.

In our own learning times we have enjoyed exploring foam, experimenting with ice, making up stories with polar animals and making our own flying carpets!

Week 7 and Week 8

It has been a lovey sunny week back at school and we have started our new learning journey “Big Wide World”. We have enjoyed talking about different places we have been and thinking about all the different people, houses and building we could see. This gave us the idea to turn our big boxes into a train and this led onto some lovely collaboration work.

We then thought about some different places our train might go and one of us though we would need our passports, so some of us went off to make some. Next some of us created the different places including Tunisia, Paris, Rome, Milan and England and set up passport control. Lots of us got in role and decided who was a passenger and who worked on the trains or in the passport office. Some of us also helped to create a timetable to make sure the trains ran on time and told people where they were going.

In group time we created a giant map full of different places that you might get to on a train, car, boat, plane, bike an even an hot air balloon. We had lots of ideas of what we would see on our journeys.

In our own learning times we have enjoyed exploring water and tissue paper, playing with the play dough and being creative by making junk models.