Castle Room News

Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on the key area of Understanding the World as we explore light and dark. We will look at the scientific terminology of Transparent, Translucent and Opaque as we talk about creating and blocking light sources.

In the Mark Making Area we will be making a dark den to create a dark place to make marks. We will use torches to illuminate our work, and we will begin by using white chalk on black paper. We will also be wrapping the underside of the table in black paper to allow the children to lay beneath it and make marks above their heads. Later in the week we will look at making glow in the dark marks. We will do this by soaking highlighters in water, adding a small amount of this water to PVA glue and then using this to paint our marks onto paper. This may not look like much to start with, but by using a black light, we will make our marks light up in the darkness.

Our first Book of the Week is called How are you feeling today?" It is a book that explores what we can do when we feel in different ways, like happy, sad, cross and excited. We will be thinking about what we look like when we experience different feelings. We will use the key sentence 'When I feel... I ...' as we look in mirrors so we explore our faces.

Our first Song of the Week is If You're Happy and You Know It. This is a take on the original song where we look at what we might do if we are happy, sad, cross, excited, worried/scared and we know it. I wonder if you can try it at home with different actions.