Light and Dark 

The children have been exploring what happens when light is blocked by using torches and different toys, their hands and shadow puppets. We have also drawn around our shadows outside using chalk. Inside we have been exploring light and dark in mark making with white and black paper and a range of different pens, pencils and chalks. 

Little Glow

As part of our new topic the children have been learning all about different festivals and celebrations. ‘Little Glow’ has been our first core text in this topic and it has introduced the children to lots of festivals through the candle character ‘little glow’. The children have really engaged with this book making their own ‘little glows’ and putting them in our window so that they can tell them about all the festivals they are learning about. 

Bird Feeders

After watching a short clip about how we can help animals in the autumn the Kingfisher children had a go at making bird feeder garlands to hang up in the garden. They had a great time making these and it was a fabulous fine motor activity too!

Black History Art 

As part of our black history day on Friday 17th October the children took part in a art lesson inspired by Alma Thomas (African-American expressionist artist) . The children used blocks to create a colourful rainbow. 

Cogges Farm 

We had a lovely time on our trip to Cogges Farm, this was based all around our story The Little Red Hen. 
We found eggs, planted wheat, ground wheat to flour, made bread and had a surprise puppet show at the end. 

The children were brilliant through the whole trip and did the school proud with their amazing behaviour. 

The children were all excited to go home with a bread roll and their planted wheat.

labelling body parts 

As part of our marvellous me topic we looked at the book Wise about my body. This helped us to look at the parts of our body. The children all took part in a circle time where we sang the song head shoulders knees and toes followed by drawing around a child and labelling the body parts. 

Magic Dough 

We enjoyed a lovely circle time that focused on helping the children settle into their new classroom as well as helping build their fine motor muscles. 

We read a poem about the magic play dough and how if it changed colour it meant we would have a good year. The children all took it in turns to make a wish and then after three we all squeezed our play dough to see if it would change colour. 

Welcome to kingfishers!

we have had a wonderful start to the year! The children have all settled brilliantly and learnt the new class room routines and expectations so quickly. This week we introduced our first core text The Colour Monster. Through this book we have explored the different emotions and the colours we link to these. We have done many circle times and talked about our emotions. The children have also taken part in yoga and a focused activity of drawing self portraits. Please see our weekly news letter to read more.