Autumn

Week 7

This week we loved listening to a new sensory story 'The pumpkin thief'. We enjoyed finding out that there was not a pumpkin thief but a bird who wanted to share the pumpkins amongst his animal friends. We learnt about a Japanese artist called Yayoi Kusama who paints pumpkins and creates pumpkin sculptures. We painted our own pumpkins and added dots and other marks with black pens. In maths we have also compared the weight of different pumpkins by finding out how many cubes they each weighed.  

Week 6

This week Lily class loved listening to the story 'Aliens Love Underpants'. They painted their own aliens and enjoyed icing an alien biscuit. We also revisited using peelers to peel apples to make apple crumble. Our cooking skills are improving and lots of Lily class were apple to follow a visual recipe and spoon the correct amount of ingredients into the bowl to mix. 

Week 5

This week we have been learning about people who celebrate harvest, particularly in our community. Ely Cathedral asked the school to contribute a display about the song 'All things bright and beautiful' and Lily class got to make papier mache rocks and painted pebbles to go in the river. We got very messy but we loved it! It has been a little more autumnal outside so we also baked biscuits cutting them into sunflower, leaf and apple shapes. We enjoyed rolling conkers down ramps and seeing how far they went and some of us made potions with autumn leaves, conkers and petals. 

Week 4

In LIly class we enjoyed  a sensory story called 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. It is a story the class had remembered from last year and some of them were able to join in with parts of the story which was lovely to hear. In the story the bear enjoyed a sandwich on the moon. We all followed instructions to make our own sandwiches choosing jam, marmite or cheese as the filling. Part of our topic work was learning about the different planets. We looked at photograph's astronauts have taken of each planet and then had a go at painting planets using water colour paints. 

Week 3

This week Lily class have been learning what it is like for astronauts to go into space. We learnt about gravity and watched some clips of different items floating in space. In science we made rockets that could fly by blowing into a straw. Lily class love to cook and on Thursday we made moon rock cakes decorated with melted chocolate and chocolate curls. We made the curls by peeling a bar of chocolate. We got a little messy on Thursday when we painted lots of different pieces of cardboard to make a role-play space centre so that we can pretend to fly to space! 

Week 2

This week Lily class read a story about a girl going to watch a meteor shower. We learnt about Meteor showers and then made a meteorite windsock that blows in the wind and painted shooting stars by blowing paint through a straw. We also learnt about the artist Jackson Pollock and found out that some of his paintings look like space. Some of us enjoyed dripping and splatting paint like Jackson Pollock to create our own space like paintings. Lily class were very excited when we said we were cooking again this week. We all had a go at peeling potatoes which was quite tricky before cutting them into wedges. We will cook them on Friday and enjoy eating them in the afternoon with ketchup! 

Week 1

This week in Lily class we have been getting to know new teachers and new friends. We have also started our new topic for this half term 'out of this world' where we will be learning about space. We listened to a sensory story about a boy that wanted to catch a star and created paintings of a galaxy. We all enjoyed making star biscuits and icing them before we ate them as a special snack! In Maths we have been counting in different ways and learning to build 2 digit numbers with a variety of resources. We had a great maths session where we made a bus and counted the people on and off.  We have all been busy making a lovely outdoor area by planting pansies and helping to keep it tidy.