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Today was our last PE lesson on “Ball Games” for this academic year. Today’s focus was football skills and goal scoring. The children worked very hard in this lesson and we were delighted with the progress they made! Better still, every single one of them scored a goal for Team Hedgehogs!
Today we continued to our exploration of the Easter story to answer the big question ‘Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden?’ We created our own Easter gardens, talking about the representation of each part and how this helps Christians to remember what happened at the very first Easter.
We were very proud of our gardens when we had finished.
We have been learning the names of the continents and oceans in Hedgehogs. To learn these, we have been using two songs that we really enjoy singing! Please find below links to these songs so we can share our learning with you at home!
Hedgehog Class had an amazing time at the Blue Planet Aquarium a couple of weeks ago. The children were delighted to get up close to some fantastic under water animals and put some of their recent learning into a real life context. They also enjoyed the habitats workshop where they learnt which animals live in coral reefs, the open ocean and rock pools. What a super day of learning!
What a wonderful afternoon we’ve had in the outdoor learning area in Hedgehog Class! The children engaged in some beautiful child initiated play today.
Some of the girls enjoyed developing their fine motor and mark making skills with some colouring/drawing…
Other children were exploring mechanisms and capacity in the water tray…
The boys showed an interest in the bug hotel this afternoon and then created their own in the back of a digger…
Some of the children decided to read a story to others…
Some of them did some great writing/drawing outside…
And the rest of them spent a very long time creating and then using a fantastic obstacle course!
We’ve had a very busy and exciting day in Hedgehogs today. We have found out about why we are raising money for Comic Relief. We learned about the history of the red nose and how it changes before designing and making our own with playdough. We also made tasty red nose biscuits and played with red oobleck. We found it fascinating to watch the way it changed when we were using it.
In R.E. we have been learning about the cross as a symbol of Easter. Today we learned about hot cross buns and how they can be used to represent parts of the Easter story. We learned the hot cross bun rhyme, tasted hot cross buns and used scented playdough to make our own.
What a busy week we had last week!
On Monday, we carried on practising our ball skills in PE.
On Tuesday, we all joined in with a fantastic dance workshop with Stacey from West End in Schools. We learnt the story “Where the Wild Things Are” and then created our own dance to music.
And then in the afternoon, we made natural labels at Forest School.
On Wednesday, we were busy making pancakes after learning about Shrove Tuesday.
On Thursday, we all looked amazing for World Book Day 2025!
And on Friday, we all had great fun in our role play “Pancake Café”!
This week in Hedgehogs we have really enjoyed our first week of learning about Under the Sea. We have found out about what might live under the sea and the life cycle of a sea turtle. We have used the small world lots in the tuff tray and enjoyed playing in the water and foam! We have also explored bubbles and learned about submarines. We made submarines in the construction area and have begun to make a big submarine for us to use in our role play over the next few weeks. Now we are especially looking forward to finding out more about sharks and orcas!
We have also started the process of growing some potatoes and learned how to chit potatoes ready for planting in a couple of weeks. Our plan is to grow our own potato salad to eat in the summer term!
Today we decided to test some of the different methods we learnt we Kris on Tuesday to see if we could charm some worms out of the ground on the school field. We chose four of the methods; worm grunting with two sticks, pouring soapy water on the ground, paddling on the ground like a gull and singing to the worms. All of the methods worked, but we found out that the worm grunting was definitely the most effective.
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