As we come to the end of Term 4, it’s so lovely to be able to look back on how much we have done in six weeks! We have celebrated Shrove Tuesday, explored what healthy choices look like, discovered our class book Rosie’s Walk, celebrated World Book Day, celebrated Mother’s Day, took part in science week, celebrated Red Nose Day, completed another Tinkering Tuesday, took a trip to Nightingale Valley and finally celebrated Easter. Wow! What a busy term it has been.

We kicked off the term with a Shrove Tuesday afternoon, the children learnt to make pancakes and we discussed all of the different types of toppings people like on them. They designed their perfect pancake in a drawing before making them and enjoying their hard work with some lemon and sugar.

To introduce our new class book Rosie’s Walk we held an exciting Wow day. At the start of the day the children found an egg and a riddle in the classroom. The children then followed the clues which led them to a chicken coop where they collected ½ dozen eggs and found the book Rosie’s Walk.

The children then read the book as a class and had fun making masks of the characters, having their faces painted as farm animals and then making scrambled eggs on toast with their findings from the coop!

For World Book Day, the children got very creative! They all came into school wearing their pyjamas so that they were nice and cosy to listen to stories throughout the day. However the highlight was them turning a potato each into their favourite book character. Parents came and joined as we transformed Maris Pipers into Stickman, the Gruffalo, Winnie The Pooh and even Paddington Bear to name a few!

To mark Mother’s Day, different care givers were invited into school to watch a performance from the children and to take part in some craft activities. Cherry class sang their rendition of Lovely Day by Bill Withers as a thank you to the people who look after them. They then all joined their grownups and did some planting, heart collages, spring hunts in the garden and water colour painting. It was a ‘lovely day’ indeed!

For science week we explored lots of different experiments, from adding vinegar to bicarbonate of soda, testing different materials to make the most efficient car ramp, seeing where ice will melt the fastest in the reception classroom, to tasting different apples and seeing how their core changes over the course of a week. Busy busy!

We also had wonderful red nose day, the children impressed in their very funky costumes where they were ‘funny for money.’ A special shout out must go to Ray and his underpants (or shall I say ‘over pants’) and Emilia for her polka dot face!

For Tinkering Tuesday this term the children had to create a protective packaging for an egg. They used a range of materials to create unique egg protectors, we then dropped them all from a height and hoped for the best! I can proudly say that not 1 Cherry class egg cracked, well done everyone!

We then went on a lovely trip to Nightingale Valley where we went on a hunt for signs of spring. The children worked in groups to spot daffodils, buds, bugs, birds nests and birds. They then enjoyed a little picnic with biscuits and some juice before having a great time playing on a hill, sliding down the mud slope and using the wooden branch swings.

In our final week of term we celebrated all things Easter! To kick off the week we found a package from the Easter Bunny, although there was a note saying that it could only be opened if everyone in Cherry class wrote a note or drew them a picture, it didn’t take long until everyone had! We also performed the song Hot Cross Bunny which we had been learning this term to the whole school, we made chocolate nests, we did an Easter egg hunt and we made lots of Easter themed crafts.