4 October 2024

Puffins
It was beautiful and mild on the beach this morning.  After worship by the waves we started off by thinking about the music recital we had had earlier in the week and composing our own nature poems.  We used some lovely descriptive language.  When we had shared them with each other we then had a restorative snack and some time to work together to create in the sand.  We then did some science, starting off by measuring our shadow stick.  We were amazed that in four weeks the shadow has grown by the length of a whole mini-whiteboard.  After that we thought about the importance of the sense of touch.  We found a range of items that felt different, and had to describe them for our partners to guess which one we were talking about.  It was tricky to do it without resorting to describing what they looked like!  After that we worked collaboratively, and cooperatively, to create a giant village, complete with church and car park.
Starfish

We continued the story of the week ‘Ten Little Superheroes’ by Mike Brownlow at the beach today. 

After listening to the story, we found out about onomatopoeias.  They are words that actually looks like the sound they make.  There are lots of onomatopoeias in our book.  We wrote some down: bish, bash, bosh, zap, jab, splat, pow and boom.

We then played some tag games pretending to be some of the characters in the story.  We bish, bash, boshed like Hippo Man,  splatted like Glue Girl, zapped like Electro Lass, swished like the Kraken, snipped like Crab Man and jabbed like the Hedgehog.

We used dice with some ‘Squiggle’ pattern and some ‘Pen Disco’ patterns on which we then drew in the sand with lolly sticks.  We also had some stick puppets of the ‘Ten Little Superheroes’ which we used to sing a song like ‘Ten Green Bottles’ but sang ‘Ten Little Superheroes standing in the sand’.

The Reception children did some RWInc in the sand dunes.  We read the word ‘ship’ but we couldn’t see any ships out in the ocean!  We ordered some teen numbers in maths while the Nursery children sang some more number songs.

We ended our beach school today having great fun jumping on the blue tarpaulin when the wind got underneath!