Sunshine Room 2.1 - 'What do I know about winter?' - End of term summary 24/25

This half term we have been thinking about our Big Question 'What do I know about Winter?'

First, we talked during our hello time, using images of winter clothing to encourage us to think about what the changes of weather means for us. We looked at coats, scarves, hats and gloves and talked about how we would need these things to keep us warm during this cold time. Using our book Winter by Emily Dufresne we learnt about the weather, clothing, animals and celebrations in Winter time.

Then over the half term we have explored all things Winter. We were able to go outside and explore the ice and snow on some cold days. We could feel it with our hands and we talked about how it was cold, wet, hard, icy. We enjoyed painting snowballs, and then when we went to play outside we noticed that it crunched under our feet as we walked on it.

Following thinking about the weather in winter we have thought about how to move our bodies to pretend we are snow, ice, wind and rain and we danced to some winter music using our chosen movements.

We have thought about which animals like to live in the warm and which like cold places. We have learnt about how some animals sleep all through the winter as there isn't enough food and this is called hibernation.