Autumn 2
In Autumn 2 we learnt all about Autumn and colours. Our power of reading book was ‘The Gigantic Turnip’.
We explored pumpkins and used tweezers to find seeds inside them, we looked closely with magnifying glasses. We made leaf prints, painting crunchy leaves orange, red and yellow and printed them on paper. We explored the leaves in the garden and found out why so many of them had changed colour and fallen from the trees… Its Autumn and they will grow back again in Spring .
We learnt the names of lots of colours, we matched them, painted with them, went on colour hunts and sorted them. We also became scientists and colour mixed. We had different colour water in jugs and using a pipette mixed two of them at a time together. When we stirred the new pot of water we had made a different colour.
Our power of reading book was all about a vegetable called a turnip. We held a reading cafe for our families where we had fun with all sorts of different vegetable related activities. We made our own Mr Potato head with real vegetables. We have a farm tuff tray where we could plant and harvest mini vegetables, we planted beans and printed using vegetables in paint. The best bit was the table full of vegetables to snack on!
Christmas was at the end of Autumn 2. We had a amazing time celebrating together. We learnt the Nativity story and why we celebrate Christmas. We had a party, a Christmas lunch, a visit from Father Christmas and we all sang and danced beautifully in Church at our first Christmas performance.
