Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Week 7 - We're Going on a Leaf Hunt
This week we have based our learning around the stories, ‘Wide Awake Hedgehog,’ ‘We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt,’ and ‘Leaf Man.’ We have been learning all about the changes we see in Autumn. The children learnt about the changes in the weather, the trees, seeds, and fruit. They learnt about animals that work hard during Autumn to prepare for the winter.
On Outdoor Learning Day, we went on an Autumn walk for children to see the changes that take place. The children picked their own Autumn leaves. They were able to pick their favourite leaf and tried to describe it to explain why they liked it. The children were following instructions to hunt for leaves of specific colours. We extended some of these instruction to two parts specifying size/shape and colour. We used some of the items we collected to make a sensory bin. We described the size, shape and textures and our friends tried to guess what we had. We did some oral blending with syllables to place the objects back in the sensory bin.
We used our leaves we collected to make ‘Leaf People.’ We discussed the parts of the body and the children had to think about selecting leaves of a certain size and shape for each body part.
We learnt a little about hedgehogs and their habitats. We discussed how hedgehogs spines feel and came up with some great adjectives! We learnt about how they protect themselves. We made clay hedgehog using our fine motor skills to roll the clay into a ball and then pinched to make the shape of their nose. We counted the amount of matchsticks we would use for the spines and matched them to the numeral.
We made some handprint hedgehogs, focusing on spreading our hands out to make the, “spikey spines.”
The children practised their counting skills, focusing on 1:1 correspondence and stopping at the cardinal number. They counted out the correct amount of spines to match to the numbered hedgehogs.
We were learning some new positional language in our story, ‘We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt.’ The children learnt the new language on, under, in, out, in front and behind. They practised this using our class ‘Teddy.’
The children sorted leaves by size using the words, ‘big,’ ‘medium,’ and ‘small.’
We also practised our cutting skills this week, cutting along straight and zig zag lines. The children were learning to hold their scissors correctly and to hold the paper with the other hand.
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