The mystery continues…

Our egg has not yet hatched. We have created a nest and brought it indoors, so that it is safe and warm.

Some children thought they had found some footprints in the playground, we are not sure what made these prints.

Some of the children thought about leaving some apples behind the shed, to see if the mystery animal would come back and eat them.

We can’t wait for tomorrow!!

Well we were so surprised this morning when we found a giant egg in our playground.

The children were full of questions:

• What’s inside it?

• Where did it come from?

• How did it get here?

We noticed some clues. We found two large footprints, blue feathers and a large green leaf. 

The children made some suggestions about what could be in the egg.

“It’s a baby”, “a dinosaur”, “a parrot”, “a dragon”, “an ostrich” etc…

It was still a mystery!

The children decided they would search for more clues all around the playground. We found apples that had been eaten and a branch with no leaves so we believe it is a herbivore. Some children found tracks that looked like they had been made with three claws. 

Everyone drew their ideas on some paper. Some of the children knew about having to keep eggs warm and suggested we bring it inside. They spent this afternoon collecting twigs, leaves and feathers to make a cosy nest.

We have been learning all about planting, growing and minibeasts. We went on a walk to Carr Mill Dam and on a minibeast hunt. We  planted seeds in pots, and planted flowers outside too. We even tried to grow a beanstalk! We watched caterpillars grow into butterflies and tadpoles grow into frogs.

This has been a very magical term  with all of our work focusing around  the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On our journey we created some beautiful art work and made our own music. We wrote our own books, and went outside into the forest to make fairy gardens. We are great at retelling the story with actions!

We have had lots of fun learning all about space. We learnt about the solar system, and dressed up as astronauts in our spaceship role-play area. We explored light and dark in our ‘Dark Den’ too. It was very exciting when we came into school and discovered that a spaceship had crash landed in our classroom. I wonder what will happen next?!

Well done to all the children in Reception and Nursery! Their performance of ‘I Spy Christmas’ was amazing. Reception children spoke clearly and everyone enjoyed the singing.

Reception Class visited The Lowry Theatre in Salford to watch a performance of Stick Man. It is one of our favourite story books by Julia Donaldson.

Isla said, “I liked the Stick Man song. Especially the bit that went ‘I love my family and my stick children 1, 2, 3’.”

Charlie: “The dog bit the Stick Man all over. It was funny when the dog bit his bottom!”

Logan: “I liked those presents from Santa. I like Santa (be)cause be give sthe fast asleep boys and fast asleep girls some presents.”

Bella: “I want to watch it again!”