This week in Maples we looked into the celebration of Chinese New Year and how 2024 is the year of the Dragon. We learnt all about the tradition of gifting a red envelope with money which symbolizes good wishes and luck for the new year ahead. The children then created their very own envelope with chocolate coins in and then exchanged them with their peers. We finished the week off with another short cookery session making crispy cakes which Maples loved.
This week in Mindfulness Club we enjoyed using the new ‘balance snake’. We had to remove our shoes and focus on staying balanced as we walked along the snake. We had great fun but it was quite tricky!
We also did some mindful colouring, concentrated on solving wordsearches, and listened to some lovely relaxing music with beautiful underwater images.
Today in mindfulness club we did some positive quote colouring, played with the lego, and did some cosmic yoga.
Yoga
Playing together
Mindful colouring
We listened carefully to adults and each other, took turns and respected the equipment we used. We enjoyed exploring the resources in the Nurture Room.
This week, Cherries invited parents and carers into school to join us with our learning.
As part of our Stone Age topic, we built models of Stonehenge and we created handprints like people from thousands of years ago.
We also showed our parents / carers around our classroom and explained our learning.
As part of our Golden Time reward, Cherries have been in the soft play room. We had lots of fun!
Each Thursday Acorns and Hawthorns are able to attend ‘Mindfulness’ after school club.
Every week we start with some gentle yoga. Then we choose from a variety of activities – colouring, drawing, reading, playdoh, threading and other relaxing, calming tasks.
We finish off with a mindfulness activity on the whiteboard. One of our favourites is ‘Bubble Bounce’, where we track coloured bubbles on the screen whilst listening carefully to the spoken instructions.
These activities really calm our minds and help us to feel relaxed.
As part of their RE topic this half term, Willows have been thinking about the importance of Palm Sunday.
They have been asking and answering questions such as:
Why do Christians call Jesus a king?
Why is Palm Sunday an important day?
How do Christians celebrate Palm Sunday?
For their final lesson they made some lovely Palm Crosses.
This week in Pines we have been learning about money- we are starting to recognise coins and sort them. We have practised our fine motor skills using hamma beads to create different pictures and enjoyed making some stained glass windows in RE which we hung on our tree in class.
On Friday we enjoyed some fun in the snow!
Chestnuts visited our new sensory room in the hub today.
It was lots of fun as we played with the lights, games and sounds to explore what we could see, hear and touch.
Some children even used the microphone to sing a song!
The children in Maples have been learning all about Chinese New Year and the year of the rabbit. As part of their learning, the children made red envelopes and Chinese Lanterns.
