Friday 21 November 2014

Diwali -The Hindu Festival of light

We have had a fabulous week learning all about Diwali.
We have loved dressing up in beautiful clothes and have loved acting out the story of Rama and Sita.

We have enjoyed exploring how Hanuman, the king of the monkeys, must have built a strong bridge to rescue princess Sita.


We have loved exploring patterns by looking at Rangoli patterns and have used peg boards and numicon beads to create patterns. We also made Rangoli patterns of our own.




We have loved mark making and measuring using real rice and all kinds of sparkly things!

We have made some beautiful Mendhi hand patterns and have loved painting our own patterns on our hands!
And coloured some lovely patterns.
We played a board game to try and rescue Sita from the island.

Wow! Such a busy but magical week......

Friday 7 November 2014

Guy Fawkes

We have been finding out about the story of Guy Fawkes
We have been using our role play area to take on the roles of King James, Guy Fawkes and his plotters.
We also took on the roles of Queen and Princesses!

We used small world play to take on the role of Firefighters.

Good team work to get the water to flow through the hose!

We really enjoyed making paintings of exploding fireworks!

We used the magnetic letters to spell some firework words by segmenting the sounds first, e.g, p o p -pop. 
We enjoyed using the computer to find out about fireworks. We were able to hear different firework noises too.