15th November 2019 - This week we have been thinking about kindness and anti-bullying in year R. We made a hedgehog hibernation house to help the hedgehogs and made signs for it. We considered how to be kind to each other and made stickers and cards for our friends saying what we liked about them. In Forest School we learnt how we can be kind to our woods and help look after them, some of us wanted to make posters to help. On Friday was Children in Need. We came to school in Rainbow coloured clothes and brought our teddies in with us. We played lots of games with our teddies including positional hide and seek. We have started learning some tricky words in phonics and have been busy counting lots of actions in maths.

8th November - We have been going Firework crazy this week. We have been making fireworks, drawing fireworks, adding fireworks, making firework safety poster and we turned our outdoor space into a Fire Station. In Forest School, we read Leaf Trouble and enjoyed hunting for different colour leaves and making leaf sticks. Today, we loved how our water tray had turned into an ice tray and made lots of amazing ice discoveries.

18th October - What an exciting week we've had in Year R! We have been thinking about real life superheroes and who we trust and have enjoyed very interesting talks from a vet and a policeman. We have continued to read the Supertato books and this week, in the meadow, thought carefully and problem-solved about how to rescue the evil peas that were stuck in the 'poisonous' jelly!

11th October - This week, we have been looking at the Supertato books which the children have really enjoyed! We have made supertatoes, created our own super vegetables, tasted and printed with them, found vegetables in the mudpit and the forest that had been captured by the evil pea, as well as using lots of evil peas for a resource in maths.

4th October - This week we have been learning all about Houses and Homes. We thought about the type of house we live in and who lives in it with us. We have read the Jolly Postman and been posting lots of letters in maths whilst we practise counting and writing our numbers. We have also been reading the Three Little Pigs and acting out the story in our role play area. We have been busy building lots of houses in many different ways, both in the classroom and in the woods to replace the ones that the wolf had blown away. This week we have also enjoyed performing our Harvest Song in the church as part of Harvest festival.

26th September - Penguins and Puffins had a super afternoon in the woods today! After reading the book 'Monkey Puzzle', the children loved finding the animals hidden in the woods! They worked in teams beautifully. The children also finished off decorating their crosses and enjoyed decorating sticks they had found.

Penguins - Weeks 3 and 4

Autumn 1 - Penguins' First Days at Otterbourne.