Space

We really enjoyed this amazing topic! Our Wow Day gave us the opportunity to attend astronaut school! We studied moon rock, space gloop and dressed up as astronauts. We experienced the g-force challenge with a parachute and ate real astronaut food! The school had a visit from the Wonderdome where we were able to visit the planets in our solar system and find out about the first animals and people in space. 

Toys

We had a super time exploring toys past and present, thinking carefully about the materials that they were/are made from and why. Lots of the older toys were challenged us to think about how to play with them. The spinning tops, dolls and Jacob's ladder were very popular. We decided that 'simple' toys are just as much fun as more modern sophisticated toys! What a super topic this was!

Design 

What a great topic this was! We designed and built a house to protect the Three Little Pigs from the Big Bad Wolf! Only four houses did this job but we had lots of fun making them! Our author of the topic was Nick Sharratt so we got to enjoy lots of fairy tales. 

Where's Wally?

What a fun topic this was! We flew to different countries on Ashwell Airlines to discover more about them using our different senses. We opened and ate fortune cookies in China, played the didgeridoo in Australia, made a lion collage in Kenya and made our own carnival headresses in Brazil! We can now say for certain that not all places are like Tydd St Mary! 

Discovery

This fabulous topic gave us the opportunity to find out if dinosaurs were real. Yes they were! We had a super Wow Day making dinosaur fossils, observing a pretend dinosaur egg in water and watching a mini volcano errupt! Terry T-Rex left us a letter with a dinosaur trail to follow. Once we had found the dinosaur footprints, we wrote down the corresponding sound which helped us to solve the clues! Terry left us a treat and we danced to Walk the Dinosaur. Our dance lessons were based on the theme tune to Jurassic Park and we created some super dinosaur dances. 

Farming

Well, what a topic this was! We had a visit from Farmer Joe in his John Deere tractor. We even got to sit inside AND honk the horn! We had a great Wow Day where we made a life-sized scarecrow (called Oscar), explored a sensory farm themed tuff tray, danced like crows and scarecrows, explored pumpkins and played Guess the Vegetable! 

Tydd St Mary

 We really enjoyed this topic. We became astronauts then birds while using Google Earth to zoom down to find out where Tydd is in the world. We identified some of the geographical features of the village and learned the key vocabulary. We made our own Lincolnshire flags, ate Lincolnshire Plumbread created a features poster in our table groups. Our author of the topic was Michael Rosen and we loved sharing his stories and poems especially 'We're Going On a Bear Hunt' and 'Chocolate Cake'. 

All About Me

 This topic gave us the opportunity to explore what makes us special and unique. We enjoyed exploring our topic box which included x-rays and people puppets. We explored our faces with mirrors and used buttons to create our family members. We experienced collaborative drawing and hand printing too. Our topic-related author was Anthony Browne and we loved sharing his books. We thought about who lives in our house and how our families can be made up of different people. We talked about our likes and dislikes.

What a great first topic! 

 Welcome

We have had a super first two days in Toucans making new friends and exploring our classroom and outside area. We have started to learn our special rules and routines that help keep us all safe and able to learn. 

Well done Toucans.

Mrs Ashwell, Miss Brown and Miss Sherry