This week as part of our topic work, we learned about the farm. We discovered the names of baby animals on the farm and spoke about where our food comes from. We found out that farmers are very busy, with lots of jobs to do including looking after the animals, sowing seeds and collecting eggs from the chickens.
Our story of the week has been, ‘A squash and a squeeze, by Julia Donaldson ’. We have been squashing and squeezing playdough with our fingers to get our finger muscles working, and using tongs to squash and squeeze Pom poms into different containers.
In our creative area we have been painting pictures of the farm using hay.
The weather has been lovely this week so we enjoyed the outside by making marks in the shaving foam trays with farm animals in them and then cleaning the animals with small sponges and pippets. We also explored a small world farm tray, thinking about what the farmers jobs are, and where each of the animals live on a farm.
We were very excited to have a lesson on the life education bus; where we learnt about taking care of ourselves. We also got to meet Harold the Giraffe and helped him to look after himself.
What a busy week!!
