The Learning Base 1: Blog items

Happy as pigs in mud!

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 2:06am

This week the children have been learning about another farm animal...pigs!

The children practiced following instructions and  worked together to make edible mud for their pigs. We had lots of fun letting our pigs play in the mud!

Mark making

Date: 12th May 2023 @ 5:01pm

This week the children have been practicing their mark making in different materials. We are working on being able to recognise and write the first lettter of our name as well as exploring different movements to make marks.

Do you you move?

Date: 9th May 2023 @ 10:16am

This week in PE we have being looking at travelling using different parts of our body. The children have developed jumping, climbing, balancing skills using their feet, tummy, back, knees.

Well done!

At the Carwash

Date: 24th Apr 2023 @ 2:03pm

This term the children are looking at different modes of transport. This week, they were using cars to mark make and then clean them. 

The children really enjoyed using the copayment water to clean the cars.

A week of Sensory fun!

Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 3:14pm

This week in class we have been exploring our learning using our different senses.

The children had great fun playing with the snow, mark making in the sand and using the instruments to create music.

We have also been using paint to create caterpillar and butterfly pictures.

All about Minibeasts

Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 3:49pm

This week we have been looking at the book Minibeast, Follow the trail.

The children have been creating their own minibeast book and mark making using different materials. We have looked at the lifecycle of a butterfly and created music for the butterfly to dance to.

The children have loved getting messy with all the minibeasts!

Something is growing!

Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:47pm

This week in Base 1 we have been looking at flowers and exploring the differetn parts. The children have enjoyed taking plants appart, creating a flower with materials and using parts of their body to create flowers with paint.

All about weather

Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 2:50pm

This week in class we have been learning all about different types weather and what clothes we need wear. The children had great fun dressing up in different clothes and learning about the weather.

Christmas learning - 16.12.22

Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 1:45pm

The children have had a fantastic week making their hats, mats and cards for the christmas dinner and party.

They made handprint placemats.

They had a lovely dinnertime eating their lovell dinner whilst listening to the music. 

11.11.22

Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 3:52pm

The children in the Learning bases have been looking at 'Castles' during their topic learning.

They have used the small world play castles and have enjoyed making the castle walls. 

On Friday, they used the large boxes to try and create their own large castle. The had so much fun investigating the boxes that the castle is yet to be built. 

The children also created an extention to their castle role play using junk modelling. 

Fruity Faces

Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:27pm

This week the children have been learning about their bodies and created faces using fruit.

They selected the fruit they wanted for the different parts of the face. When they had finished, the children had fun eating them!

All things Messy!

Date: 21st Sep 2022 @ 3:54pm

This half term we are focusing on our body and senses. Can you guess what sense we are focusing on this week?

First week back!

Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 10:17pm

Welcome back, hope you had a lovely holiday!

The children have come back to school ready to learn. It has been great to see how much they have grown over the summer.

There has been some lovely focus and learning with our task boxes and the children really enjoyed making chocolate brownies this week too!

Little Red Riding Hood

Date: 12th Jul 2022 @ 4:26pm

The children have been looking at the story of Little Red Riding Hood. 

We loved making biscuits for Granny and making a basket for them. The children were careful to watch out for the big bad Wolf!

Using the mirrors, the children looked to see if they had big facial features like the wolf and practiced making funny faces.

 

It

Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 12:28pm

The children have been developing their magic skills. We made wands like the witch and created bubbling potions.

The children were very interested in what happens when certain ingredients are mixed together.

Room on the Broom

Date: 12th May 2022 @ 4:53pm

This week we have been looking at 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson.

The children had a visit from the witch and have been learning all about the characters in the story.

In ICT the children have been using 2Simple to draw a picture from the story. They have been developing their turn taking and matching skills in a bingo game.

The aliens are coming!

Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:22pm

This week the children have been exploring space and who they will find there. We have made Aliens and travelled into space in serach of the aliens. 

Journey to Space

Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 12:22pm

This morning, the children put on their helmets, got into their flying saucers and flew off to space!

When we arrived, we saw lots of stars and planets. We needed to be careful on the space rocks and hot gas volcano!

Soaring into space

Date: 28th Jan 2022 @ 4:04pm

The children have been loving our new topic! This week they have been creating rockets and exploring planets.

Fun with paint

Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 12:57pm

Welcome back! 

Hope you all had a lovely break, the children have settled back in well and ready to learn.

This term we will be looking at Space. 

The children had great fun with paint and squirty bottles creating galaxy pictures. It was such messy fun!

It's Christmas!

Date: 17th Dec 2021 @ 11:11am

The children have really enjoyed making Christmas crafts and we were even luck to have a visit from Father Christmas!

Fun in the snow!

Date: 3rd Dec 2021 @ 8:48pm

It's snowing! In class we're so excited for the snow and couldn't wait to play in it! The children made footprints in the snow and had a go at rolling snow men. 

We were sad once it melted so Miss Winterbottom brought us some in ?

All about food!

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 5:32pm

The past two weeks the children have been exploring food. We have had great fun painting with food, sensory play and making ice cream and pizza ?

Christmas came early

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 10:28pm

The children in class have loved exploring their new equipment. They are developing their gross motor skills on the climbing frame and stepping stones.

On the seesaw and spinning top, they are enjoying the sensation of spinning. They also make great seats ?

Let

Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 5:15pm

The children have been developing their climbing and jumping skills. We were very impressed with the increase in confidence.

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