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pre school

our mascot Uga (P3)

na, Uga, green and world and when she comes back, and their peculiar way of living, different rainforest animals, and
“Uwhite, choose a helper she brings us lots of souvenirs and all the benefits that the rainforest all in a fun way.
and choose it right!”. This is P3’s pictures which introduce us to the provides us, from clean air, food, Art and Mr Henri Rousseau will
class mascot song/rhyme and incredible wonders of that place. medication etc. open a door to an exotic world
we love it! For example, Uga's last trip was We are discovering a totally new where he combines nature,
to the Amazon Rainforest. This and different environment to colours and love of the rainforest
Pre school Team topic will help us to work on the ours! with a beautiful painting that he
Uga is a turtle who lives in our different areas of learning, and The 3 year olds are fascinated by did during his life. We have asked
classroom and with her magic will provide the right resources how much new vocabulary they our parents to collaborate with
she is able to see everything and stimulus for developing are able to learn and find it very our arts and crafts by bringing
that happens in the classroom different capacities and multiple satisfying to learn poems, song, nature items to school. Our
but she only highlights positive intelligences that children need rhyme and the incredible stories rainforest
behaviour. And that’s very at this age. all related to the topic of the paintings are amazing.
encouraging to the children to We started by creating a corner rainforest. For the Body/Kinesthetic
develop a positive attitude. "The Rainforest" as a role-play This is the pictorial poem that we intelligence we are learning the
P3’s topic this year is being area and it simply made our are learning. dramatic song, "The Five Little
inspired by our mascot Uga. imagination grow. We are among In Mathematics, we count, Monkeys" where children sing
Uga loves travelling around the the animals, the Yanomami tribe compare, order by size the and perform.

all about space (P4)

n P4 we have been learning all about the astronaut space programme, and children glow sticks and fluorescent paints their vocabulary and knowledge improve.
Ispace! To get things started and peak what astronauts eat in space. We let so they could get a better understanding Throughout this term the children have
the children's interest we simulated the children try different types of dried of how dark it is in space. We created role added to their mission log and they
a voice message from NASA, and food that are similar to what's eaten in play areas in our classrooms too - which will take this home to share with you at
explained to the children that their help Space, and we incorporated literacy and the children loved. We built a space the end of the term alongside some art

was needed in Space - and to ask them if maths opportunities whenever we could. station with lots of different phones, creations and the T-shirt they decorated
they wanted to accept the mission! We then looked at the most famous technologies and computers, so the with the Solar System.
astronauts and learned about their time children could act like they were in a real
Pre school Team in Space. space centre. The children could also
We began our learning journey by filling Next, we moved onto learning about the dress up as astronauts, and we built a big
out an application form for NASA space Solar System and found out about the rocket from boxes so they could imagine
school, and week by week started to focus different features of planets, and lots of they were travelling into space.
on different aspects of space training to new vocabulary. We had lots of fun in It has been fantastic to see the curiosity
become astronauts. We learned about the dark room we set up, and gave the and excitement from the children and see

around The World (P5)

his term in P5 our topic was the children feel like they were Safari around school. We also read
TAround The World, we went actually on a plane! We were all the story Handas´s Surprise and
to four different countries across very excited to begin our journey tried all of the different fruits in the
the continents. and learn some new things about story. Our favourites were Banana
different cultures. In China we and Pineapple.
Pre school Team learnt about the key Landmarks, After saying GoodBye to Africa
In Asia we went to China; in Africa Mr Elliot came to teach us how we went on a boat to South
Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa; to count in Chinese and how to America! We made a boat on the
in South America Peru and in say Hello and Goodbye and we playground and all climbed in, it Picchu in Gym Class! art from Australia!
Australia we focused on the whole practised using chopsticks. was a very bumpy journey and Next we took a submarine to To end the topic we had a party to
of Australia. We also travelled We flew again to Africa and saw we got splashed by the waves! Australia, we saw lots of different mark the end of our adventures,
using different forms of transport, some traditional tribal dances It was nice to see the differences sea life on the way! We decided we looked through our suitcases at
we went by plane, boat and where we copied the movements between Peru and Spain, we to try and make out own all the amazing things we created
submarine. and created our own routines. In looked at traditional dances and boomerangs and use aboriginal along the way! We´ve had lots of
We turned the classroom into a P5 we love animals so we were very got to try some tasty Peruvian dotting techniques to decorate fun this term and are excited to get
plane using a projector to make excited to go on our own African treats. We even climbed Machu them, trying to copy real works of started on our new topic!