This week in Early Years it was our first Friday Footstep Walk. The children have enjoyed the story of Rosie’s Walk this week in class and made story maps to help them retell the story in the correct order. Rosie went for a walk on a farm and used lots of positional language, we went on a walk in our town to see what positional language we could use.

This week the children have been using their knowledge of Carnivores (animals whose diet consists of meat), Herbivores (animals whose diet consists of only plants) and Omnivores (animals whose diet consists of both meat and plants).
We have looked at which animals get energy from plants or animals and how plants are producers who produce their own energy from the sun.

Having their own part of a food chain the children were asked to find where they would fit in a number of different chains, thinking if they were a producer or a consumer.

We then went back to our books to complete our own food chains showing the transfer of energy from one source to the next.

Today the children started their first lesson about Ancient China and the Shang Dynasty. Looking back in time 2000 years before the birth of Christ the children explored what the first civilisation was and how they came to power. We also started to learn our first words in Chinese – nǐ hǎo​ meaning hello.