People kept on mistaking the Rocky Racoons recycling bin for general waste so we made a recycling symbol to stick on it. We explained that the recycling symbol is made up of triangles, explaining and showing how we draw them. They traced the lines and finished by colouring it in Blue/Green. We cut it out and pasted it onto recycling bin. The children are learning to identify the recycling symbol and getting to know that paper and cardboard can go in the recycling bin. #arb

To celebrate Burns Night🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we spent our afternoon listening to a Scottish themed animated book called 'Hazel the Highland Hedgehog'🦔 The children sat for the storytelling session and really engaged with the story as when I asked questions relating to what was just read she was able to recall names of characters and pick out visual information through the pictures. We looked at tartan picture and patterns today for Robert burns day, we began trying to create tarta

As part of our Emotions Topic, we made an Anger Volcano! First, we read the "Alligator is Angry" book, which talks about different things which can make us feel angry and what we should do in those situations, then we started our activity. We cut up letters to spell the word "Angry", mixed them up and had to stick them to the paper in the correct spelling, the children then had to draw around the word how they feel when they are angry, then lastly write their name on the draw

Today we have been learning about giraffes. I brought in cardboard paper rolls to make some. The children painted yellow first on all the rolls. After we let it get dry I asked the children what do you think we are missing now guys? They talked about the spots and I asked to them what colour they should be. Some of them said brown and other said black, we were learning how the word is spelt. When the yellow paint was dry, we started to paint brown dots around the roll. I

Last Friday, our Arbor Green family met in George V Park with John, Alice and Jake to continue helping with our community garden project. We started by weeding the beds and exploring whats growing. The garlic is taking off! Recently the children have been learning about birds, so we decided to get everyone involved by making bird feeding balls and filling up already made bird feeders. Children and parents then explored the park finding the best spots for the birds to enjoy th

Last week Tuesday, January 4, was World Braille Day. At morning gather time, we spoke about, what braille is, who uses braille to read, and its creator Louis Braille. As a group, the children looked at the braille alphabet and pointed out the letters in their names. Eager to make their names in braille, I drew each letter of the alphabet separately and used pipe cleaners below to create braille dots to mimic the letters above. The children explored the pipe clearer bumps and

A couple of weeks ago, we began discussing the changing of the seasons, from summer to Autumn. We spoke about what happens in Autumn, the changing colours of the leaves, the change in weather and temperature, the clothes we will wear, animals going into hibernation and how it is now time to harvest the food that we have been growing over the past year. So that’s what we did, we harvested, starting with corn and then some potatoes. The children poured out our bag of potatoes,

We’ve taken the Let’s Go Zero pledge, declaring our aim to become zero carbon by 2030. We’re joining schools across the UK in this national campaign to show the overwhelming support for zero carbon schools and inviting government and local councils to work with us to reach this goal. We know that schools can be the trailblazers for their community, responding to young people’s calls for action. In fact, they can inspire whole communities to tackle the climate crisis. In the c