Our EYFS Aspiration of recycling champions through "Reduce, Re-use and Recycle" has been worked towards with our creative use of Halloween pumpkins. Instead of throwing them away after Halloween we have re-used them for a number of creative tasks. Our final tasks included using chalk pastels to do observational drawings of the gourd type pumpkins and possibly the most fun was picking the seeds out of the pumpkins with tweezers before washing, drying and roasting them with Mrs. Johnson. Every child tried these protein rich snacks at snack time and more than half of the class had seconds or thirds! We will now compost the pumpkins and hope for some rich compost for our vegetable planting later in the year.

We have been working on our Kinetic Letters program, holding the pen correctly and practicing the six handwriting moves. This week we are working on the "Jumper Family" of letters which include h, b, r, n, m and p. They are the "jumpers" because you jump back up and over.