Bears@taddy

  Our Taddington community were so generous in donating harvest produce. Any vegetables that weren't given in Harvest Hampers to members of our local community, were made into a Harvest soup this week by our Infants and Giraffes. We had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday, with our oldest children supporting our youngest to make a really delicious soup! We then came together as a whole school on Thursday to share the soup together.

 During our Literacy lessons, we have been reading Anansi the spider- an African folk tale. We looked at the map of Africa and found Ghana, where the story originates and learnt the call and response song 'Che Che Kule'. Yesterday, we made up our own call and response song based on the story about Anansi. The children learnt their new song and performed it using percussion instruments. Today, the Year 1 children taught the receptions the song and they sang altogether.

 Today, we've been investigating which numbers are odd and which are even. The children went into the mud kitchen area and counted out flowers, sticks, bugs etc. then split each number of objects into 2 groups to see if they could be shared equally. They then recorded their findings and looked for patterns.  Sharing 3 flowers into 2 groups Looking for bugs to share. Checking to see if one flower can be shared into 2 groups. Recording their findings. Sharing pebbles into 2 baskets. 

 Our day out at Chatsworth Farm Bears enjoyed a day out at Chatsworth Farm. It was a beautiful sunny day and we had lots of fun feeding the animals, handling the guinea pigs, watching the sheep shearer and playing and digging in the sand in the play area. We saw the baby foal and the sow waiting to have her piglets, she may have up to twelve piglets in her litter!  We were not hanging by our legs from the swing! but we did have fun!

 Sports Day Bears had a wonderful time at our school sports day.