This week in Acorns we have been thinking about ways to improve our mental health. We made sensory bottles which we can use to help us feel more calm and relaxed. We added glitter, sequins, colour, beads and other things that make us feel happy. We were all very pleased with the results!
We have also been researching minibeasts to make a class information book. We had a great time outside exploring minibeast habitats.
In Art we explored colour and texture, and created some amazing animal masks.
In Maths Reception investigated pattern.
We made crowns for our Coronation party.
Some of us attended the after school ‘Mindfulness Club’ on Thursday with Hawthorns.
This week we have had a great start to the Summer term. We have been exploring our outdoor learning environment, which is currently being updated and improved. We worked together to create an obstacle course, and talked about keeping ourselves safe, managing risks and solving problems.
We also started our new topic ‘Animal Safari’, and did some animal themed yoga in PE.
This week in Acorns we have been thinking about our new topic – Ready, Steady, Grow.
We will be learning about where our food comes from, finding out about farms, exploring plants and animals and how they grow and change, and hopefully doing some food preparation and tasting!
‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ by Vivian French.
We explored some of the vegetables in the story using touch, sight, smell and taste.
Where does food come from?
We look forward to finding out answers to our questions and learning lots of new things!
Blossoms have really thought this week about how we can connect to others with this year’s theme: ‘Let’s Connect.’ We came up with some great ideas such as smile at others, sing, give them a hug or ask if they are doing OK. For our work in class, we designed paper chains and on each paper chain, we drew anything that was special to us (such as special people, interests, food) and it really showed ways that we can be connected to others.
BBC Moodboosters has teamed up with BBC Children in Need for this ambitious new initiative to inspire primary school age children around the UK to get moving and learning about their mental health and wellbeing:
‘Try a Moodbooster activity at home to get your family moving and feeling good!
Famous faces from across the BBC and beyond including Dr Ranj Singh, Oti Mabuse, Ade Adepitan MBE, Rhys Stephenson and Bethany Shriever MBE lead videos to inspire everyone at home to boost their mood, feel good, and use movement to help them understand their emotions and manage feelings together as a family.
There are 10 Moodboosters videos to use at home as a family that will help to encourage a sense of fun in your living room’.
This week in Pines for children’s mental health week we were learning about how we all connect. We started the week off by connecting together in a circle and passing a hula hoop around each other- we had to stay connected for the hoop to go around! We listened to the story of the invisible string in literacy and created our own character which all connect on our display. We also looked at how we are all connect by the things we like and by having the same hair/ eye colour.
We also enjoyed our exciting opportunity to watch the CBSO relaxed concert this week listening to the story of around the world in 80 days through an orchestra then completed some mindfulness colouring.
In Acorns we read ‘The Invisible String’, and thought about the ways that we are connected to people we love, even if we can’t always see them.
We drew ourselves, and the people we are connected to by ‘invisible strings’.
During World Mental Health Health Day, we read the story called ‘The Invisible String’. We discussed how we are connected to people by an imperceptible yet unbreakable string of love. We all drew a picture of ourselves and around this we drew people who are important to us.
