Happy Easter!

We have had a fantastic last week of term. It has been full of experiments, Easter crafts and fun at forest school.
 
We began the week really diving into the Easter story and recapping everything we have learnt this half term. The children are confident in retelling the events of Easter. We then went to Forest school to make our own Easter Gardens that represented the tomb where Jesus was laid to rest and a cross to symbolise Jesus dying on the cross. We were all so impressed with the hard work and the gardens turned out beautiful. Miss Penny was also impressed that she showed everyone the children’s gardens in assembly.
 
We have come to the end of our changing materials unit in science and our last lesson included looking at why we change materials, including freezing and melting and changing sand to glass. The children did some amazing work looking at ways we can change materials. We left some ice to melt and then looked at the different stages to turn sand into glass writing instructions of the stages.
 
We have made some Easter eggs and spring flower crowns this week and reception used this as an opportunity to practise their fine motor skills by using tools. They have also had an Easter themed story in drawing club, coming up with their own Easter Bunny character and a machine that collects all the Easter eggs. Rachel was surprised with some chicks waiting to be hatched in the outside area and we had some Easter themed play dough at the start of the week where the Easter shaped biscuits.
 
In Art, we have created our clay house tiles. The children rolled their clay out into a rectangle shape and used tools to mark make the designs onto the clay to form houses. They will be kept safe in school over Easter to dry and we will be painting them after the holidays.
 
We finished the week with a lovely afternoon in forest school with Beech, Sycamore and Acorn class. It was lovely to watch them all together having a great time.
 
I hope everyone has a lovely Easter break
See you all next term
 
Miss Warwick and Team