Autumn bags
So far this week, we’ve been enjoying talking about the contents of children’s autumn bags. Thank you to everyone who has returned them already. Don’t worry if you haven’t had chance to fill them yet, there’s still time! Please bring them to Nursery when they’re full.
Children have enjoyed telling us all about the things they have collected and where they found them. It sounds like lots of you have had fun visiting local parks or looking for autumn things on the walk to Nursery. We’ve heard some good descriptive language (shiny, spiky, smooth) and the conkers are providing endless opportunities to talk about size. We love to line them up in size order!
Outside, some children helped to harvest our (mini!) carrots and we enjoyed eating them at snack time. We have also noticed that many children are interested in ‘rolling’ objects at the moment. To facilitate this, we created a conker drop game outside. It was great fun trying to roll the conkers into pots at the bottom. We carefully counted how many we managed to get in to each pot at the end.
Super scientists – dissolving
This morning, we’re being scientists and carrying out an investigation. We’re all learning about dissolving.
The year 5s are finding out whether a range of substances (gravy, salt, sugar, coffee, tea and rice) dissolve in cold water whilst our year 6s have designed their own experiment using the same equipment. One group is investigating what effect the temperature of the water has on wether a substance dissolves, one group is investigating the effect of stirring and another group is seeing if coffee will stop dissolving when you put more in.
As we experimented, we recorded our results and used scientific vocabulary to explain what we were observing. Specifically, we used the words solute (a substance that dissolves), solvent (the liquid that a solute dissolves in) and a solution (the mixture of a solid and a liquid). Ask you child what they investigated, what they found out, and what each of the three previously mentioned words mean.
Counting conkers
The year 1 children have enjoyed using the conkers we collected on our walk to count precisely. They have used ten frames to count them, counting in 10s. Help at home by counting in 10s. 1,2V had 816 in their collection. 1K didn’t have quite as many!
Amazing art
We observed our surroundings closely on our walk around Scholes this week. We have used our observational skills to draw trees. Here are some super examples.
Autumn Home Link
This week, you’ll have found a brown paper bag in your child’s folder.
Please fill it with ‘Autumn treasure’ (coloured leaves, conkers, acorns etc..) and return it to Nursery. Talk to your child about what they find (colours, textures, different sizes) and about the changes they can see happening to the trees.
We’ll talk about the contents of their bags and share their treasures with friends. They’ve been really interested in our autumn discovery area this week; we’re sure that they’ll enjoy adding their own items to it.
Junk Modelling Request
The children love to make models out of recyclable materials. It’s a great opportunity for them to be creative and use their imagination.
Please can you collect and bring in any recyclable materials for our junk modelling area.
Library
The children have enjoyed their second visit to the school library this week. Please bring your child’s library book back to school on a Wednesday, as this is when we change them.
During the session the children use their quiet library voices and take their time to choose a book. While we are waiting for everyone to choose a story we encourage the children to sit and share their stories. Before we leave we like to sit as a class and listen to a story together. The children enjoy visiting the library and look forward to it each week.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
This story continues to be popular with children this week. They love listening to Michael Rosen telling the story and we have been going on lots of Bear Hunts outside too.
Today, we took advantage of the sunshine and created our own Bear Hunt through the grass, forest, mud, river and snow. To help us to feel the different textures, we took our shoes and socks off.
Some children weren’t sure at first but they soon got used to the squelching and loved it! We heard lots of descriptive vocabulary as they made their way along the path.
2KN
We would like to let you know that Mrs Wilkins has had her baby. It’s a healthy baby boy.
Mrs Lake will be joining 2KN in the week beginning 21 October 2019 to take over from Mrs Wilkins.
She will be in class before this, getting to know the children and their routines.
We hope you agree that this will be a great addition to our team.
Thank you for your continued support.
Local walk around Scholes
We enjoyed a wonderful walk around Scholes today; taking in the scenery, looking at the trees, collecting conkers and leaves, having conversations, jumping in muddy puddles and spotting an ‘angry pixie’. Thank you to the parents and carers who accompanied us. We couldn’t have done it without you.
