Unicorn Class Blog                    Term 1 Week 5               Week Commencing 29th September 2025

This week in the Unicorn’s Class we have been enjoying exploring different vegetables particularly whilst making and tasting the vegetable soup. We discovered some vegetables were harder than others, which made it more challenging to cut. However, everyone tried really hard and discovered techniques to make it a bit easier. Some of us thought the courgette looked like a cucumber because it was a similar colour and shape. We had the vegetable soup we made in the walled garden for our snack. Most of us liked smelling, tasting and looking for the different vegetables in our soup. We enjoyed learning the actions and words to a vegetable soup song. We have also had the opportunities to do vegetable printing.

We have been learning about Autumn, as part of this we have been on autumn walks, noticing changes and making autumn collections. Some of the items we collected were acorns, sycamore seeds, pears, apples and lots of different colour, shape and sized leaves. We have been making autumn collages, leaf rubbings and painting using autumn colours. We also have been learning some different autumn songs with actions.  

We have been fascinated by the cress we planted last week, how small the cress seeds were and enjoyed noticing the changes when the seeds germinated, watering the cress and comparing each other's cress plants.

Outside this week we have also enjoyed using the balance bikes, using the balls to kick and throw, building, playing in the large sandpit, collecting mini beasts, splashing in puddles, playing Hide and Seek, climbing and making music.

We enjoyed going to the hall to play ring games and explore different ways to travel across benches, jumping off at the end safely and travelling through tunnels.

The focus during maths this week has been comparing weights, lengths and quantities. We particularly enjoyed comparing vegetables by holding 2 different vegetables predicting which one would be the heaviest/lightest then using the balance scales to see which one was the heaviest/lightest. There have been lots of comparison discussions whilst on our autumn walks, whilst building and during snack time.

This week during phonics we have had a focus on ‘General Sound Discrimination’ we have used environmental sounds, instrumental sounds and used body percussion.

As part of our SCARF programme we listened to ‘Sometimes I Feel Sunny’ by Gillian Shields. We then discussed how we were feeling now and the reason why. We discussed that there are lots of different feelings, that it is alright to not feel okay sometimes and that everyone has different feelings. We also discussed who can help us if we are not feeling okay. We enjoyed playing fishing for emotions, saying how the face may be feeling and reasons for this. We have also enjoyed sharing other books exploring different emotions.

Next week we will be continuing with our ‘All about me topic’ and having a Harvest/Farm theme which will include making farms, a vet’s role play area and making apple and pear crumble. 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and looking forward to seeing you all next week for more exploring.

Best wishes

Mrs Fenwick