Author: Minch Academy

Today we went to Church to learn all about Harvest. For some of us it was our first visit to the church. We were all well behaved and listened to the lovely ladies at each of the learning stations. We made a clay pot, ate bread and we were all given a friendship bracelet.  We also heard a story in the sukkah, learned about different vegetables and seeds and the harvest from the ocean. Milo counted 13 fishes in the net.

Thank you to all of the ladies in the church for such an informative, interesting morning.

Guess which phoneme we were learning today?

Yes, today we learnt ‘a’. In our talk partners we thought of as many animals as we could that began with ‘a’. We came up with armadillo, anteater, antelope, alpaca, and we substituted bull, cat and rat in our Little Red Hen story with albatross, ant and alligator.

Can you think of any other animals beginning with ‘a’?

Add your ideas and comments below. 

​This afternoon we all had a go at grinding the wheat to make flour just like the Little Red Hen. We bashed and thrashed, scraped and crushed the wheat with all our might using a stone. It was hard work but we persevered until most of the grains of wheat had turned into flour. Phew!

I can see apples high up in the tree

Juicy and red they look lovely to me

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Shake the tree shake the tree

I want some more

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Today we went searching for apples and found some at the front of the school.  We sang the song and shook the tree until 10 apples fell down. We then went back into class and ate one of the apples. We worked out that the apple needed to cut into 23 pieces for all of us to have a taste. The apple was juicy, sweet and crunchy.  Yum yum!

Tomorrow will be the end of our first full week in school. Well done everyone. Mrs Bugg and Mrs Saeed are extremely impressed with how well you have all settled in to your new classes. What a great start.

We have already been very busy. We have particularly enjoyed Outdoor Learning, PE and playing in our outdoor classroom.