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Chinese New Year Food Tasting Week Cooking Activities February 2016 Over the weeks the children have really begun to enjoy cooking and are always eager and excited to know what is being cooked on a Thursday afternoon. Recently the children have had the opportunity to see and join in with the cooking process from scratch with foods such as biscuits, fairy cakes, pizzas and also making a sandwich. They are beginning to understand instructions and attempt to read them and are aware recipes have to be followed. We encourage all parents to come in and support their children during cooking and appreciate that extra help and support in the classroom. We would like to thank parents for their kind donations of £1 a week. Insha’Allah your continued support will allow the children to develop and strive further in their learning. Knowledge of World & Transport February 2016 Over the last two weeks children have been learning about other countries such as, Australia and China. The children have been really interested and eager to learn about the weather in other countries as well as foods eaten, transport and wildlife animals. To help their knowledge develop children have had the opportunity to look at transport used in other countries and using various materials have made a range of transports. In addition, they have had the opportunity to focus on the book ‘There is No Room for Baby Roo’ which has sparked interest to learn about Kangaroos so over the week the children have learnt about the life cycle of a Kangaroo. Children really enjoyed the Chinese New Year food tasting week where they were given the opportunity to taste a various range of Chinese food such as, noodles, egg fried rice, chicken corn soup, prawn crackers and spring rolls. Children were able to express their likes and dislikes in terms of the multicultural foods that they sampled over the week. They learnt about the Chinese New year and the story behind how it all began with the Emperor setting a race for 13 animals and then choosing 12 runners up to complete the Chinese zodiac. Stranger Danger & People Who Help Us February 2016 The children learnt about what safe strangers are and how they can keep themselves safe when they are out and about. To make them aware of safe strangers we had told the children who they may go to and ask for help. During the two weeks we had a doctor visit and a nurse visit the school and talk to the children about their role and how they help when children are sick or poorly. Children got to look at the various items used by both doctors and nurses such as, plasters, stethoscope, and thermometer. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK – ‘FRIENDS OF OAKWOOD’ Company Registered in England and Wales; Registered Number 6410625 Ofsted URN. 135539 - DCSF No. 821/6011 - Charity No. 1123924