This week saw the start of our new topic 'Autumn'. The children got off to a great start on our nature walk around the school grounds to collect all thing autumnal for our aistear play.
What better way to learn than to explore our own wonderful grounds. There are bird feeders, insect hotels and massive sunflower heads that show hundreds of sunflower seeds... a birds' paradise!
We had great fun collecting lots of natural bits for our classroom. Thank you to everyone who brought in beautiful leaves and conkers for our autumn collection.
The making of this months small world!
In the Junk art area the children helped to make trees for the small world. Here they are painting the tree trunks.
Next they suck on some little autumnal coloured leaves.
We used the whole punch to make some nice mini leaves for the trees and also to pour into our small world so the mini people can rake them up again!
In the soil area the children went digging for the hidden conkers... the winner finds the most. They have to count them first!
In the water area... we get to learn about floating and sinking by making some boats from the conker husks.
Fire Safety Week
This week is fire safety week. We have been learning all about the fire station and how fire women and men keep us safe. We have learnt about fire engines and how how the fire people train and put out fires. Next week we will be practicing our own fire procedure in school. Above you can see our work in progress... our burning building for the role-play area.
The video below will give you a giggle but it has an important message for the children about what to do should their clothes ever catch fire...
STOP, DROP AND ROLL!!
The video below will give you a giggle but it has an important message for the children about what to do should their clothes ever catch fire...
STOP, DROP AND ROLL!!
IMG_3182 from Zara Murray on Vimeo.
Finally... we do occasionally have a bit of relaxing wind down time in room 5! We finished off our week with some pasta painting... using our Autumnal colours we have been learning since the start of school. Next week we will be making pasta patterned necklaces.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
IMG_3192 from Zara Murray on Vimeo.
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