Topic, Topic Topic!

Lammermuir have been busy bees since coming back from the Christmas break.  We have had lots of fun activities arranged around our topics of Winter, Robert Buns, Chinese New Year and Valentines.

For our Winter topic, we made snowman sensory bags, played with real snow in the garden, made our own snow and also explored some hot chocolate powder and marshmallows in our messy play sessions. We made igloo paintings and melted snowmen in art, using white paint.  We used lego bricks to print our igloo pictures.  We explored winter treasure baskets and also enjoyed playing games like building up a big snowman made of boxes and trying to knock him down. This activity was one of our favourites and we were all really good at turn taking.

For Chinese New Year we enjoyed listening to Chinese  music, exploring the treasure baskets and playing Chinese restaurants with the home corner materials.  We made Chinese lanterns in art and explored some rice and noodles in messy play.

We had good fun learning about Robert Burns too. We made our own tartan pictures using pieces of paper and done some mark making to colour in our Robert Burns picture.   We dressed up in tartan items and enjoyed our whole school ceilidh and Linda’s son, Isaac  came in and played the pipes for us too.  We really enjoyed it. Some of us tasted porridge for snack and some of us explore it with our hands for messy play too.

We explored some red jelly and angel delight for valentines messy and play also red water play with heart shapes.  We made some canvas pictures and sun catchers for Valentines too.

We are all looking forward to the February break for some well earned rest, ready to tackle the next term!