Tigers@taddy

What a wonderful first week we had together in Bears. Making new friends, exploring new areas, establishing routines, sharing our summer adventures and making the most wonderful memories in our classroom and the amazing spaces we have outdoors at Taddington! (We love the woods in Bears!) 

  Time capsule We've really enjoyed getting back together over the last few days, catching up about the summer and establishing our class routines. This morning, we buried a time capsule, outlining our hopes and aspirations for the year ahead. We will dig it up at the end of the year (if our co-ordinates are accurate) and see what has changed and stayed the same.  Testing the ground in different parts of the school grounds                                                      Digging a suitably sized hole                                                   Measuring how far the hole was from features in our grounds                 Let's hope we hit the right spot later in the year...

 After finding some mystery objects in the woods, (a broken wand, a damaged house) the infants decided to whittle their own wands. Once they'd whittled, they added wool and natural objects to decorate them then enjoyed creating stories, letting their imaginations go wild.                                             

 In DT this week, the tigers and Bears have started to make monster handwarmers. During the session, we recapped how to do a running stitch (by practising on hessian), we designed our monsters and planned how we were going in to make them, then cut out and drew around templates onto felt. We now need to sew it all together. 

 This week the Tigers and Bears have been writing their own stories based on ‘The Cave’. On Thursday we planned our stories and characters before writing and publishing our stories on Friday. What a wonderful job they did!