Castles and Mighty Dragons

This week we've been learning all about castles and dragons! The children designed their own dragon and described them in their writing books using their new adjectives they have been learning about. We made hand print dragon pictures and have been building all kinds of castles. We even watched Mike the Knight while we waited to go outside at lunch time for some inspiration (the children were amazed to learn that there are water dragons too, not just fire ones!)

The next thing we did, very excitingly, was design our own dream castle or fairy tale building. Once they had drawn and labelled it, they started to make it with box modelling and we have started to do some colourful papier mache on them. While we were building them and trying to choose the best boxes and bottles to use, we watched a range of amazing cardboard houses being made on Youtube and it was lovely to see the children drawing inspiration from them to make their own doors, balconies, windows and even staircases. (watch this space to see the finished result)

In maths, we have been learning all about adding and taking away starting with watching some number blocks to see how we can use our own numberblocks cubes to help us with our adding and taking away. We have all been so impressed by how well the children understand their numbers and are loving how excited they get to count and share their answers on the carpet now too. 

In Forest School this week, we joined Acorn and Willow class outside around the fire to make our own drawing charcoal... and perhaps a sneaky Marshmallow too. It was wonderful watching all the children working together and we even gathered by the fire at the end of the day for a story together.