Tigers@taddy

 On Monday morning, Tigers and Bears joined together to do some Christmas crafts and activities. They worked wonderfully together to add the finishing touches to their wreaths, make wooden Christmas trees and create some yummy gingerbread biscuits. 

 Our little elves have been busy making wreaths this afternoon. They attached foliage that we found in the school grounds to a willow circle made from our willow arch. It was a little wet and slushy to take pictures but here are a couple of the wreaths hung up on the classroom doors around school. These gems will be on sale during the last week of term. 

 This afternoon the infants have been wonderful. They’ve worked brilliantly as team, taking turns and helping one another to make damper bread.  They measured out the ingredients.. ...mixed them together... ...kneaded the dough... ...then rolled out snakes and twisted them around a stick.  We then went to the woodland to light a fire using a flint and steel then cooked the damper bread over it. Well done Tigers and Bears, it’s been very successful afternoon.

 When developing our own ideas for a story, it helps enormously to discuss our thoughts with others. This helps us to develop our ideas and ensure that we have a clear vision for our story.  Earlier in the week, the children designed and built their own towers. Today, they began to think about a story that could be set in their tower. We went on a walk around the school grounds to give the children plenty of time to discuss their story ideas. Once we had returned to the classroom, the children were ready to put their ideas into a story plan.  Ask your child about their tower story this weekend. Your conversations with them will be invaluable for developing their skills as story tellers. 

Tigers children love exploring maths practically! 

 We explore ‘alien’ (or nonsense) words in our phonics sessions to practice sounding out. Lots of sneaky alien words were hidden around our classroom and the children had to hunt them down. Once the aliens had all been captured, the children sounded out all of their alien words to their partner. The person who had captured the most words read their words to the class and won a prize. The children enjoyed being alien hunters so much that we played this game 3 times, meaning lots of wonderful phonics!

 On Monday afternoon, Bears joined Tigers in their Holiday topic work. We discussed sand castles then looked at more complex sand sculptures that are created by some artists. The children were mesmerised by the detail and decided on the tools that they wanted to use to create detail in their own sculptures. They worked in groups and it was amazing to see how quickly each group formed a vision and worked together to create that.  An ant palace with a flower garden A volcano A castle with a road around it An underwater palace and garden