We had a very exciting scary, messy & fun week this week.   The children came in dressed in their scary Halloween costumes & sang the songs they have been learning this term.  Thank you to all the parents/families who came to support the children.

We have had lots of messy play and investigation this week with baked beans, jelly, flour, shaving foam cobwebs, insects, worms(spaghetti), pumpkin & courgettes. We made pumpkin, courgette, leek & potato soup with the last of our produce from our allotment.  We have made spiders, bats, ghosts and scary cakes.  There has been various role-plays ranging from a witches kitchen with insects & cauldrons to a camping in the wild and an Indian restaurant.  We talked about Guy Fawkes and made firework pictures, rockets, bonfire pictures and baked firework biscuits.  We also talked about firework & fire safety.

To celebrate Diwali we read the story of Rama & Sita, we made Diwali Lamps, coloured in various rangoli pictures & tasted some different Indian foods.  For our investigation we had rice play and colour mixing.  The children enjoyed dancing to some Indian music with the scarves and ribbons.