Today in reception we say goodbye to Miss Browne, who has now completed her final teaching training placement with us.

She has been a huge asset to the team and will be missed.  We wish her every success as she starts her teaching career, we know she will be fabulous.

The children have created some beautiful messages for her and we wanted to share some with you:

During the high winds we had recently one of the trees in reception became loose.

Yesterday, the tree was cut down by a tree surgeon.

We asked if we could keep the logs.

Today, the children had a wonderful time building fires and dens using the logs – it was enormous fun and we worked really well as a team.

Here are some of the photos:

This week the children have been reading the text ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra.  

It is about a super hero potato who protects the world from the evil peas. 

Here are some of the activities the children have been involved in:   Writing speech bubbles for Supertato   Counting carrot legs and finding the number Rescue the trapped Butternut Squash

 Make a Supertato and Evil Pea puppet

 Count the potatoes to match the number

Here is a video of the story for you to share at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xmKF3tBFs

Here we are busy learning through play:

 Painting the super vegetables

  Writing speech bubbles for Supertato

 Making puppets to tell the story

  Helping to rescue the Butternut Squash

Today we visited the library and had a great time finding out about how to become a member.

We found out that you can join the library at any age, you can borrow up to 20 books and keep them for 3 weeks.

To join the library you just need to take a letter with your grown ups address on, then you can go to any library in Havering (there are 10).

The librarian read us some stories and said we could have a look at all of the children’s books.

We are eager to take our parents during the February Half Term, so we can choose some books to take home.

Here are some photographs:

This week in reception we have been reading the story “Where The Wild Things Are”.

We enjoyed painting our own Wild Thing and we made some using the iPad drawing app too.

Here are some of our wonderful Wild Things:

Last week the children in reception read the story “Bog Baby”.

It’s a great story to help children understand how to care for the animals in their environment.  Please share it at home too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMvnv94X_l4

We had a wonderful time making and writing about Bog Babies and then we went on a Bog Baby Hunt around the school.

We asked the teachers in Year 2 and 4 if they had seen a blue flying creature anywhere and we followed the clues across the school field to the pond.

There we found some blue footprints, glitter trail and some feathers, until finally we spotted Bog Baby.

Here are some photographs of the hunt in action:

Willow 1 and 2 classes had a great time visiting the FishMonger in Elm Park.

We saw a Conga Eel, Crab, prawns and lots of other fish.

We asked the fishmongers,  Jenny and James, lots of interesting questions and listened carefully.

Here are some pictures:

Today we had a brilliant time in the garden retelling the story “Whatever Next”.

We used cardboard boxes to zoom off to the Moon, where we had a picnic just like Baby Bear.

Here are a few pictures:

This week we have learnt about the celebrations of Diwali, The festival of light.

The children loved hearing this story  and they have created some wonderful drawings of the 10-headed baddy Ravana.

Within maths this week we have been focusing on height and length, comparing sizes and measuring in non-standard forms as well as continuing to learn the numerals.

Here is a link to a child friendly version of the story of Diwali

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-diwaliperformance

Also here is a picture of Ravana!