Our story this week has been one day on our blue planet: In the Antarctic.  We have discovered that there are lots of different animals that enjoy living in the ice and snow including penguins, seals, whales and birds. We created our very own Antarctic pictures using different animals that we may find and them enjoyed searching for them in our sensory tuff tray. We had lots of fun but it was very messy! 

We had a fantastic forest school session and enjoyed using sticks and pans to pretend that we were cooking sausages all whilst singing our current favourite song, 10 fat sausages. We also enjoyed playing with the football and taking it in turns to pass it to our friends and back. 

In music this week we took another journey on the sensory train however this time we went to water land! This was a firm favourite with Hedgehogs class and they all loved watching the water spray out of the bottle and land on their heads, faces, hands and feet. 

Finally, on Friday we had some special visitors on the shipwreck playground at break time. ARP 2 class came to join us! We had so much fun making new friends with lots of games of tig and tag and hide and seek being played. At one point half the children had disappeared but there were lots of giggles to be heard under the pirate ship and when the adults peeked round the corner there were all the children giggling away and playing beautifully together. 

We hope all our children and families have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week 🦔

We have had a fantastic week in hedgehogs this week. We started our week with our story ‘Lost and found’ which is all about a penguin who ended up at a little boy’s house and they go on an adventure to return him to Antarctica. The children really enjoyed playing with the penguin, boat and little boy from the story and demonstrated their understanding by acting out what happened in the story. 

We then explored what it would be like in Antarctica where the penguin lives, by trying to free some animals that had become stuck in the ice! We tried using warm water to break the ice but that was taking too long so we tried dropping it from a height and we started to free the animals but there was still ice stuck to them. Finally we used salt to melt the remaining ice and explored how the salt made the ice feel. 

During our music session this week we went on the sensory train to drumming land where we explored making loud and quiet sounds on the drums. The next station on our journey was bubble land where we all had a fantastic time popping the bubbles. Our final stop on the journey was relaxation land where we listened to calming music and relaxed with our friends. 

Have a lovely weekend hedgehogs 🦔 

Welcome back Hedgehogs, what a fantastic start to the new year. We started the week off by choosing what we would like to do in this new year. Lots of us wanted to go swimming, to the park and play football! 

During our problem solving sessions this week we have been using the number blocks to explore all about number 1 and beyond. We have created our very own fabulous number blocks to display in the classroom to support with our number work. 

In music this week we were using the instruments to make loud and quiet sounds. We took it in turns to use the drums and the shakers to make loud sounds to music and then quiet sounds to music. 

We had a very cold forest school session this week so made sure that we all wrapped up really warm 🥶. We were all surprised about how different the forest looked compared to last time we went. There were no leaves at all left on the trees and we could see each other all the way through the forest. 

Finally, as part of our art lessons we are learning all about drawing. We chose which tools we would like to use out of crayons, bingo dabbers and egg shaped crayons and practised drawing different shapes and explored the effects we could make on the paper. 

Have a fantastic weekend hedgehogs 🦔