After our observational drawing of apples on Friday we had the opportunity to taste some cooking apples to see how they are different from the apples we eat at snack time. The children also helped to stew the apple and some of us were even brave enough to try some of the stewed apple on a biscuit. 

Today we were able to sequence the pictures in the correct order to recall how we made our apple treat.  The children also labelled their pictures by following along with the sounds as they were written on the board.

A beautiful crisp Autumnal day meant that we were able to get out for a lovely Autumn walk.  We discussed the signs of Autumn and what to watch out for before we set off.  We took clipboards and alongside a partner ticked off what we could see. 

When we were back in the classroom we discussed the items we did not tick off on our checklist. While we did not see any squirrels it does not mean they don’t come out more during Autumn.

Over the last few weeks we have enjoyed lots of practical literacy and numeracy activities to help us develop our knowledge of sounds and our concept of numbers, shapes, size and sorting.

Have a look at our amazing autumn trees. We used rollers to paint our background, then following our numeracy lesson on ‘thick and thin’, we explored using varying thicknesses of paintbrush to paint our tree trunk, branches and twigs. To finish, we used autumn colours to print our autumn leaves with spools and corks. 

Today was ‘World Porridge Day’. This ties in very nicely with ‘p’ being our sound of the week. As part of our Global learning lessons, we were looking at world hunger. So, as well as celebrating World porridge day, we wanted to do something to help other children in the world who are going hungry. We decided to raise money through our porridge party to donate to a charity called Mary’s meals, with the aim of feeding a child in Malawi or Zambia one meal per school day for a year.