Our Week 

Welcome back to school! Bears have had a busy week starting our new topic, Long Ago. In the Long Ago project, we will be learning all about our history and how we have changed from when we were babies. We will be learning about our heritage and find out what life was like when our parents and grandparents were children, what it was like to go to school in the past and how everyday objects, such as clothes, toys and vehicles have changed. We have been sharing objects, stories and memories from our parents, from an old Beatles record to a medals! We look forward to sharing more stories, interesting objects and photographs from history over the next few weeks.


  


In our construction area, we made models of buildings from long, long ago!


We have been looking at and discussing photographs of children and objects from long ago. We observed that they were black and white and not colour. Telephones looked different, there were no mobile phones and we had to use typewriters as computers had not been invented! The children liked some similar toys such as teddy bears and toy cars but there were no computer toys.


Maths

This week, we have been looking at spacial awareness and the use of positional language. Bears have been looking at using their vocabulary to describe and explain how and where objects, places and people are.




Visit from Adam, Tarmac.
Adam came to visit from the company, Tarmac. Bears and Tigers learnt all about limestone, which was formed from fossils a long,long time ago. We watched how they blasted the limestone from a quarry, we looked at the machines and lorries they use, and also  what limestone is used for. We learnt that we use limestone in toothpaste, on our roads and paints.








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