Sports day fun!!

Washing southend shells and seaweed...

On Wednesday we enjoyed washing all of the shells and seaweed we collected at Southend-on-sea and we have made a collection area in our class to remind us of our lovely trip...

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!

On Tuesday We went on our Southend seaside adventure! We were lucky that the weather just managed to stay fine!

The children had a wonderful time, take a look at some pictures... there will be more to follow!

We built a moat...

Investigated at the seafront...

Paddled and collected water...

ate our ice creams...

Collected shells and pebbles to bring back to school.

Seasides!

Welcome back after half term ,I hope you had a lovely break!

This week we have introduced our new Seasides topic and the children are very excited about their trip to Southend next Tuesday!

We have been learning Spanish words for seaside objects. See if your child can say the beach (Playa), sand (Arena) and sea (Mar) in Spanish.

We have set up our own seaside cafe and ice cream stand...

We have been painting seaside pictures and labelling them...

Our Pirate Ship...

We wanted to plan a new role play area outside for our Transport topic and the children decided they wanted a ship...a pirate ship!

First of all we looked at our resource boxes and the children drew their own plans of how they wanted the ship to look...

Then we started to make some props...all the children wanted an anchor!

Yesterday the children set the ship up with me and they have a had a lovely time playing in it today. It is fully equipped with sea paintings, a sail, a deck, an island with buried treasure and a room for the pirates to rest!

If you have any items at home that you can donate or lend for our Pirate ship we would be very grateful if you can send them in...

We have been busy making our vehicles...

This week we began making vehicles the children designed themselves using the junk modelling we collected.

When they are finished we will post photos of them next week.

The children have been busy talking about the shapes of the boxes and containers they have used and they are all getting very good at naming and describing 3D shapes!

Starsnappers project!!

The children had a fantastic time this morning learning how to use digital photography equipment and having their portrait photos taken with the Starsnappers project...

They took photographs of their wonderful carnival masks....and acted as the photographer and took photos of their friends...

and used clickers to take their own photos...

An artist worked with the children to show them the lights, backgrounds and cameras they would be using....what fun!! Many of them now want to be photographers when they grow up!