Bears@taddy

  Our Week  This week Bears have been learning all about the meaning of Christmas.  We have decorated our Christmas tree, been exploring the story of the Nativity and took part in our performance of Baarmy Bethlehem. We were invited to visit St Micheal and All Angels church for biscuits, juice and to listen to the Nativity story. In our topic Puppets and Pop-ups, we practiced our cutting skills and made our own nativity scenes.

Our Week  In our topic Marvellous Machines, we have been exploring how different  machines work and their uses. Bears have been enjoying making their own machines and playing in the ice.  We made a 'lemonade maker' and 'slushy maker'.  In literacy, we have been finishing our book 'Look Up'. We retold the story from the beginning, looked at what happened next and talked about what happened at the end of the story. We used our pictures to sequence the story and then we imagined what we would look up to in the sky and wrote our own stories.  We practiced our writing using our phonic sticks, creating words using our sounding out in phonics and writing in our books. On a Friday morning, Bears enjoy DEAR time, Drop Everything and Read. Bears have practicing our Nativity! We have enjoyed singing the songs and are looking forward to showing everyone the full Nativity next week!

 Our Week   Bears have been exploring the changes in the weather and the seasons in our outdoor learning. We put on our woolly hats and spotted some of the seasonal changes that have taken place in the woods. We discovered that the water had frozen in the cold and had made some ice and that there were no longer many leaves on any of the trees. Bears were glad to find a cosy den to hide in!  In our companion project Puppets and Pop Ups, we have been using a variety of puppets to retell stories and to use our imagination to make and tell our own stories.  In our topic Marvellous Machines, we designed and made our own junk rockets and launched them down the wire. Bears have also been looking at the Artist Jackson Pollock i n our topic Marvellous Machines.   We looked at his art work,         re -creating his art using different techniques. We used digital paint pallets and then we created his drip art paintings by making our own painting machine, hanging up a paint bottle and swinging it