Linked to World Book Day and our text of the week “The Smartest Giant in Town”, EYFS decide to be the kindest children in the land! We have hidden books all around Whitburn for children to enjoy. We encourage you to read the book at home and then hide it again for someone else to find!
Please comment below if you found one of books and let us know where you found it 😁
Happy Hunting!
EYFS have loved sharing our favourite stories together at school and looking at everyone’s fantastic costumes!
Everyone loved coming together to see all the fantastic costumes to celebrate World Book Day. Even the staff got involved and dressed up as the characters from the book Peter Pan.
EYFS had a great day learning how to make pancakes. We made the batter, chose our own toppings and then most importantly tasted them!
Tomorrow we will write the recipe to help others make pancakes.
EYFS have been learning about St David’s Day. We were very lucky as Mrs Clark came into school to tell us all about Wales. She taught us some special Welsh words, showed us the Welsh flag and made us delicious Welsh cakes too!
EYFS would like to say a big thank you to Miss Hope for all the help she has given us this year. We wish her the best of luck in her new placement!
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, EYFS decided to make some love heart cards for the other classes and staff of Marsden!
We hope they made you smile 😀
As part of our Lunar New Year celebrations, Reception helped to prepare and cook a delicious stir-fry!
The best part was definitely eating it!
This week, EYFS have started to look at the celebration of “Lunar New Year” which is often referred to as “Chinese New Year”.
The Nursery children were fascinated by the dancing dragons in the clips we watched of how Lunar New Year is celebrated. We made our own dragons using loose parts in our maths session focusing on describing the shapes. We talked about their long bodies, round heads, pointy teeth and spiky horns.
Let us know if you like our dragons 🐉
In Reception, we have been learning about measurement.
As part of our ‘Winter’ topic, we carried out a Maths investigation using ice cubes. We each decided how many ice cubes we wanted to use and counted them out independently. Then, we weighed our cups of ice using analogue and digital scales. We recorded our findings in a table and talked about the word ‘grams’. We left our ice until after dinner and compared our cups to discuss how the ice had changed. We noticed that the ice had melted into water because our classroom was so warm! For our next job, we re-weighed the cups of ice to see whether the weight had changed. Then we poured our water into our measuring jugs to explore capacity. It was a very busy day, full of marvellous maths!
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