Bears@taddy

 This week, the children came into the class to discover lanterns that had been left in the classroom by Mrs Chapman to keep the Night Spirits away.  We asked questions about the Night Spirits as we're not sure what they are or why they may be visiting our classroom. We decided to put up posters to keep them away until we find out more about them. Today, we arrived in class to find a letter from Ning and a book called 'Ning and the Night Spirits'.  Ning needs our help as he wants to make friends and isn't sure how. The children discussed what Ning could do and decided to write him a letter to help him.                                                      

We have been learning about the Christian Creation story in RE. On Wednesday, we explored activity stations related to each of the 7 days in the story. Giraffes supported the Infants and the collaboration and conversations between our oldest and youngest children were wonderful.

  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!