This week we have been learning about Mary Anning and her amazing discovery of the first dinosaur fossil in 1811. The children were fascintaed by her story and many of them want to become paleontologists themselves. Watch out for digging in the garden taking place!

They made fossil biscuits by making biscuit dough and imprinting a shell shape onto their biscuit, before cooking it. The general consensus was that they tasted good, if a little hard.

On Wednesday afternoon we invited the children’s families to come in and view our art from Art Week. We created an art exhibition in our outside area. The children were very proud to show off their efforts and to let their special visitors see their classroom. For many parents this was the first time that they had been able to see our learning environment,

It was a busy week and the children are doing really well in their learning, impressing me with their place value knowledge and problem solving skills, as well as becoming increasingly confident with their reading and writing. Well done Squirrels.