This week in hedgehogs class we have been exploring all about the different animals that we may find on a safari.
We started the week by finishing off our lion sculptures that we have been working on for a little while now. We added a face to our lion’s body and used paper tubes to create legs with some paws added on. Finally we looked at some photos of lions and realised that we needed a tail and so attached this behind. Don’t they look amazing?
The next animal we explored was giraffes. We watched a video of a giraffe and its baby running across the plains and explored the spotty pattern on them. It was then our turn to create our own giraffe. We listened and watched carefully as an adult modelled what to do and used symbols on an ALD to make choices about the materials we needed. The children demonstrated fantastic independence during this activity and we created 9 beautiful giraffes!
Continuing with the giraffe theme we had a fantastic afternoon painting our hands and using them to create a giraffe. We all found it very tickly and funny to feel the paintbrush on our hands and then enjoyed using our fingerprints to create the spots.
This weeks cooking lesson was absolutely amazing. We finished our last week of making pizzas in different ways and the children really demonstrated their learning by independently knowing which steps they needed to take in order to create their pizza. If there were ingredients they needed the children were using symbols to request what they needed and all showed good waiting whilst their pizzas cooked. Well done hedgehogs we are all so proud of you!
We were exceptionally lucky that the rain stopped for forest school this week and we all had a wonderful time exploring, pretending to cook, picking daisies and making new friends.
Bucket time has been another huge success this week and the children have all really engaged with stage 3. We enjoyed pretending to be butterflies with the parachute but our favourite activity was spinning on a chair with lots of smiles and giggles.
Finally, on Friday we had a special treat during our playtime with ARP class and we had some water play out. We had a fantastic time splashing and jumping in the water and especially enjoyed the sprays and water blasters that the adults had.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we are looking forward to our parent showcase next Wednesday. 🦔