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F2 - Ahoy, Me Hearties!

Sun 12 Jun 2016

F2 - Ahoy, Me Hearties!

Well, shiver me timbers, what a week! Our pirate theme this week has led to so much fun-learning and role playing! The children returned to school to find a pirate ship in the corner of their classroom! They certainly didn’t waste any time sailing the high seas, looking for treasure and being swash-buckling pirates - Arghh!! There have been lots of fun pirate activities to access, too; the children have been so creative! On Tuesday we returned, after lunch, to find clues for us to follow in the quest to find the treasure! We had to use our reading, visual and thinking skills to follow the clues which led to the gold coins. We all managed to find a gold coin each, which we exchanged for a piece of Clayton’s chocolate birthday cake - double treasure!! We all loved this activity. On Thursday we decided to make our very own Treasure Island in the quad. First we decided which things would be on the island: trees, a BIG Black Hole, quick sand, a volcano, The Forest of No Return, The Lake of Drowning, a desert, shingle (pasta shells we could crunch with our feet), boats, shark-infested waters, a peg leg and of course a BIG X Marks the Spot with gold treasure. We set about making the props and then went into the quad to set out our Treasure Island so that we could use our imagination to act out our Pirate Stories. We loved this activity so much that we couldn’t wait to go back to write up our adventures. Miss Hopkinson, Mrs P and Mrs Parker were very impressed with the results. Our pirate adventures will continue next week—what will we get up to? Feed the imagination!!! Watch this space...

We have not only been focused on all things pirate, but we continue to make lots of progress in gymnastics and we had a very exciting seaside adventure in Caterpillar Music, too!

F1 - Our Fairy Friends!

Sun 12 Jun 2016

F1 - Our Fairy Friends!

You will never guess what happened this week in nursery. Well I shall tell you! Miss Frisby emailed the Queen of all fairies called Queen Kate and asked her if one of her fairies would like to move in to our Foundation Unit. Queen Kate said one of her fairy friends would love to and she sent us a magic door and a small magic key. Our fairy is called Trixie. The key was so tiny that we could barely see it. Off we went on a mission to find our door and it was outside. ‘It’s here!’ screamed Amie!! We had to leave the keys by the door and also promise to abide by some rules. One of them is not to touch the fairy door because some of the magic is lost if we do. Also do not block the door because Trixie will not be able to get in and out. When the key is gone, we know that she has arrived. From then on Trixie will keep the key with her at all times!

Do you know fairies can eat human food and they like raisins but they can’t eat cheese puffs because it turns them orange?

· Fairies are good at blowing away bad dreams.

· Fairies have a mild strawberry scent so if you walk into a room and smell strawberries, they are probably somewhere close by!

· A fairy’s eye colour will change according to the weather.

· Fairies can speak every language in the world.

· Fairies bring good luck wherever they go.

· Fairies experience their humans’ emotions.

· Tooth fairies have to sit 3 exams.

Fairies love shiny things but they don’t like human money and that’s why they give it away.

And above all if you want a fairy to come and live in your home there are 2 simple rules you need to obey:

You must love your fairy

You must believe in your fairy.

We all agreed to everything and are now waiting for her to arrive.

In the meantime we took to the woods on a very sunny Tree-mendous Tuesday adventure to make some fairy houses in the woods because Queen Kate said lots of fairies are looking for homes. Those fairies will be spoilt for choice because our houses are deluxe with grass roofs, stick walls, bark doors and acorn beds with leaf bedding. Miss Frisby is tempted to reserve one for herself.

So if you go into the woods be careful where you tread and remember if you feel like someone is watching you, they probably are!