Bears@taddy

Our Week  As part of our topic Long Ago, we have been looking at stories from the past. Bears shared the story  The Tiger Who Came to Tea  .  As we read the story, we talked about the pictures and compared the little girl's life and her parents with our lives. In the past, people had milk delivered by the milkman, we asked if anyone have milk delivered and where do we buy our milk? Does it come in plastic cartons or glass bottles? We then looked at the picture of the little girl and her mum having tea, and discussed the different things we have for tea. When we looked at the picture of the kitchen in the story, we noticed it looked different to our kitchens, there are no kitchen machines! Bears enjoyed and shared a tea of jam sandwiches that we had made and then went to visit our café in the role play area. In literacy, Bears have been reading the Magic Paintbrush. We looked at the picture from the book, with our talk partners thought of some captions for the pi...

  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...

  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 ma...