Handa's Surprise

Hello! 

 This week we introduced the story Handa's surprise as part of our food and countries topic. The class were great at recognising the different African animals as they appeared to eat Handa's fruit. We looked at different kinds of fruit (kiwi, apple, orange, watermelon and bananas) and we had fun peeling and chopping them for our fruit salads. We noticed that most of the fruit had seeds and explored the different colours, textures and smells of the different fruit before mixing them together with lemon juice and a little sugar...Yum!

 (pictures to come!)

 We did some fruit shape matching activities...

The class had fun practising fine motor control using the kitchen utensils and pouring scooping and measuring  beans in the sensory tray.

Ploen was even kind enough to clean up afterwards!

 We rescued a millipede from being stomped on and rather than being scared most of the class were very curious about the little creature...

 Irene was feeling super brave and let it tickle its way across her hand!!!

 It was too cold for swimming this week but we still managed to have some water fun practising the sponge relay with Mr John. Please don't forget we have sports day this Saturday (24th Jan) from 8 am -9am for Nursery class. We look forward to a fun morning, so please bring your best cheering voices!

     Cooking with playdough is always a popular activity...

The girls are getting so good at taking responsibility for themselves and cleaning up their own messes!

  Here is a link to the story and a few of the songs we have been singing this week...

Handa's Surprise Story

Fruit salad song

 Go Go Mango Song

                                           Go Go Mango song (long version)

Welcome back

Hello and welcome back to term 2! Its been an exciting start to the term as we welcome three new students, Gap, Nari and Irene, to the class! We have been taking it easy this week and giving everyone a chance to settle back into the routine...

 Our topic for this half term is food and countries around the world, so we have started off by looking at fruit and vegetables in the Grocery store.

We talked about different ways of travelling from the traditional like boats, trains and planes to some new and interesting suggestions from the class- apparently some people travel to school by pony, unicorn and dinosaur! :)

Building a railway line...

 How many bears can you fit in one boat???

We used all the utensils in the kitchen and then some in our sensory cooking activity.
The class just loved to mash, mix and mold the sticky gooey mixture.

 We made some transport print pictures by racing different vehicles through paint and across the paper.

 Congratulations to our star of the week... Mee Mee has been joining in with all the activities with great enthusiasm and a big smile! Well done Mee Mee!