Picasso, Vikings
and Tadpole Rescue
Phew…. What a busy day today’s been
and its only 3:15! Today I had the pleasure of joining Buzzards as they created their own Picasso style masterpieces in paint or pastel- the children could talk about how they had been learning how to use different art resources over the year and were now choosing which media to use to create their ‘Magnum Opus’. We talked about their colour pallets and what made a happy or sad Picasso style piece- I look forward to seeing the finished pieces soon.
Then The Vikings took over as I
spent some time in Kestrels class finding out about why Vikings chose to settle
in England in the first place, the children have been looking at historical
cause and effect and were putting themselves into the mind of a Viking and recounting
their experiences- they were then cleverly answering the questions they had
thought of- this is an excellent way of writing like a reader and reading like
a writer!
The morning ended with a dramatic
life-saving event in Early Years!
Because we love the world we try
really hard to recycle things we no longer need. After a busy morning tidying
our wildlife area we noticed lots of algae on the pond. So Mrs Peters (our
Forest Schools expert) skimmed it off and used it as a fertiliser around some
of our trees. However…. Our curious year R children, who were watching this,
noticed that some tadpoles had got caught up in the algae and were now out of
water! It’s a good job our children are such quick thinkers, in the blink of an
eye the children had jugs of water and the rescue mission started- we are very
pleased to say that all the tadpoles survived and after a few minutes of being
watched by the children, were returned safely to the pond. Based on what we saw
today we should have lots of little frogs hopping around very soon.
Izzy Lewis
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