Week Beginning 7th January 2019

Class one have been very busy setting up the classroom for our new topic: Nursery Rhymes.
The benefits of using nursery rhymes and songs in early years are many: exposure to rhymes and patterned language. Learning new vocabulary and rhythm. Use of language in more creative ways. Children are also exposed to cultural traditions.

This week we started off the topic with Humpty Dumpty. We all sang the song, listened to the rhymes and much more.
Our story was based on this well known song.

We loved finding out what happened to Humpty Dumpty after the fall.......

 

 

We sat up a challenge to help Humpty Dumpty face his new fear of heights. Children had to build a safe wall for him and here are some clever walls that should keep him safe.



We also carried out an investigation to answer the following questions:
Does an egg always break when it falls?
Does it matter where it falls onto? What happens if it falls onto a soft or hard surface?

In groups we discussed a variety of predictions. Many of us thought that an egg would always break if it fell but we soon found out that it is not always the case....

When Humpty fell on a soft cushion it did not break.

We then wrapped Humpty in a lot of fluff and again it did not break....

 

We buried it in a bag full of sand and....

it did not crack!

 

However after a fall wrapped in thin material things started to change...

 

and more cracks appeared when Humpty fell on the table top and after that on the floor...

 

Poor Humpty.

 

Meanwhile children worked on other challenges which involved sounds.

Can you hear the initial sounds? Can you match it to the correct object?

 

 

Super work!

 

 

In phonics, one of our groups have completed another set of sounds this week, well done.

 

 

 There has also been time for many Humpty themed independent challenges too.

 

 

Keeping with the egg theme, we boiled our own eggs to make egg mayonnaise to top our crisp breads.  Yummy!

 

 

 ''I didn't even know if I liked this and now, I am going to go home and tell my Mummy how to make it so I can have it again''

 

 ''Um, will there be any more please?''

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally just look at our lovely miniature Humpty's we have been busy creating.

 

 

Congratulations to George, our Golden Book winner this  week for working so hard with all of the challenges set in class this week especially our Humpty themed adding in maths.