Diwali 24.10.25

This week we have been Looking at the book Binny’s Diwali, a story about a school girl called Binny who shares with her class what Diwali is and how they celebrate. We learnt how it is the festival of light and they light lamps called Diyas to guide good luck into their homes and chase away the darkness. We made our own Diya's out of clay, it felt cold and hard at first but until we rolled it between our hands into a ball using our fingers to pinch and squish it into a bowl shape, we used sequins to decorate it. 
Miss Denney decorated our hands with Mehndi patterns, these signify good luck and prosperity.
Some of us made rangoli patterns these consist of bright colours and intricate patterns and motifs.
we decorated some of the paving slabs out side the class room using brightly coloured chalks we also used pegs and boards and coloured rice on the large tuff tray inside to make even more lovely designs. 
We have really enjoyed learning about a different celebration and discovering the wonderful traditions of Diwali. 

Funnybones 10.10.25

This week we have been looking at the book Funnybones, we’ve looked at how we can’t see our bones under our skin and we need a special camera to take a picture called an X-ray. It uses a special light to help see our bones. We have learnt the word skeleton and how it holds us up otherwise we would be like jelly! We met Dave the skeleton and enjoyed looking at all the bones in his body and learning some of the names We all tried to remember the name for the bones in our fingers as it sounded sooo funny, phalanges! We watched a funny skeleton dance and joined in  https://youtu.be/e54m6XOpRgU?feature=shared  Mrs Neath hid some skeletons in jelly, it was great fun exploring the texture and talking about how it felt.

Marvellous Me 28.09.25

We have settled well into Ducklings and have enjoyed looking at our topic Marvellous me.

We  have been looking at our faces and the different features which we have that make each of us UNIQUE. We then tried to paint our faces, we used mirrors to look at the shape of our faces, colour of our skin, eye and hair colour.
I have to say I think we all did a pretty good job.

Our first week 08.09.25