This week was Eco Week and our job in Hedgehogs was to look at our school environment.  We talked about what we could do to make the school a more friendly place for our planet.  We decided we would like more animals to visit so we set about making seed bombs for spring time to encourage more bees and butterflies and we made animal homes in our wildlife area.  We also talked about wanting a vegetable patch and found out what would make the vegetables grow better.  We decided that we wanted to start using the compost bins so have asked Miss Wren if we can start collecting the food waste and add this to the compost bins each week.

For drawing club this week we have been watching 'Wakey Races'.  We have been learning about different types of transport and finding out how transport has changed over time.  We designed and make our own vehicles outside and made numberplates and also designed and made our own wakey races car using the junk modelling.  We used tools to saw the cardboard and connect the various parts, showing excellent teamwork and problem solving skills.

Following on from our harvest celebrations and learning about the jobs that tractors do, we decided to find out more about bread.  Our book for Drawing Club was 'The Little Red Hen'.  We decided to make our own bread and then turned this into hedgehogs rolls that we took home to enjoy.  The following day we made our own butter and then enjoyed trying this on toast which we buttered and cut all by ourselves.  Many of us had enjoyed an autumn walk over the weekend so we also spent time sorting what we had found ready to use in an outside autumn cafe.

We came in and found that our vegetables from the week before had been captured.  This could only be the work of one Villain, Evil Pea!  We read the story of Supertato in Drawing Club and then got to work making our own Supertatoes to hopefully protect us.  Luckily we also had our own superheros too.  The next day we arrived to find that our supertatoes had been captured and Evil Pea was going to turn them into mashed potato!  We set to work, making traps and making posters to go around the school.  We even made cameras to hopefully catch him in the act.  Luckily our hard work paid off and the following day, our supertatoes were returned and had managed to capture Evil Pea for good.

This week we have been learning about Harvest and have read the book 'Oliver's Vegetables'.  We made our own fruit and vegetable stall where we made price labels, wrote shopping lists and served our friends.  We explored different vegetables and practiced our cutting skills and picked apples to make our own apple crumbles.  Yum yum!

A big welcome to our new Hedgehogs.  We have spent our first full week getting to know our new friends and the routines in the classroom.  We have explored how to use all of the different areas and got to know where everything is in the school.  We have been finding out all about our new friends by learning about what they like and dislike and about their families and made a lovely display to show who lives in our houses.