Autumn 1 Week 8

Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 9:06pm

This week Nursery have been learning all about Diwali. They learnt about how Hindu's celebrate Diwali, looked at some special artifacts, listened to the story of Rama and Sita, created their own clay Diva lamps and enjoyed dressing up in some traditional Hindu clothing.

We have continued our learning about Harvest time by learning all about Scarecrows this week. We learnt about why farmers use them to protect their crops and we worked together to create our own class scarecrow called Arthur. He looks fantastic! We have also been learning the nursery rhyme ‘I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow’.

In R.E this week we thanked God that we have enough food to eat and learned that some people in the world do not. We thought about how having an empty plate in front of us made us feel (“sad”). We heard that in the Bible, God tells us not to harvest our food right to the edge of the field or gather up food that has fallen, but to leave this for the poor.

We thought about how the money we raised for our harvest charity (Reuben’s Retreat) will go towards making sure the children have enough medicine and care rather than food necessarily.

In Maths we have been focusing on Nursery rhymes as a pre-starter for learning about patterns. We have been trying to join in with familiar ones and focusing on repeated refrains and the musical patterns in the rhymes.

We also created some yummy Pumpkin soup to link with our reading for pleasure text ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper. It was delicious!