Our Visit to Hainault Forest and Diwali Day.

Hello,

3M had a very busy last week coming up to half term. On a rather cold and crispy Thursday morning, year three took a brisk walk up to Hainault Forest where they explored the forest to find many different types of trees. We have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings which include many detailed trees with a focus on his painting ‘The Almond Tree’ in particular.

We enjoyed ourselves by wandering through the leafy surroundings where we found lots of different trees and we took photos of them. The children became really inspired to draw similar trees for their art lesson in the afternoon. The visit was very worthwhile as everyone got really creative with their drawings and colouring of these.

On Friday we also celebrated the festival of Dwali in lots

of different ways. They enjoyed learning about a wide

variety of artefacts which are associated with Hinduism and

really experienced the culture of Hinduism with Miss

Alexander. They had lots of fun learning about the story of

Rama and Sita through role-play and dressed up in

wonderful costumes to celebrate this with Miss Gould.

We had lots of fun doing some traditional Indian dancing

and yet again year three tried their very best at dancing and

they were all just fantastic!

We also learned about the custom of exchanging food and

sweets during Dwali. They experienced this by tasting

traditional Indian sweet food and sharing the food with

each other which they thoroughly enjoyed. They tasted a

variety of sweet, savoury and spicy foods. In fact 3M

enjoyed the food that much, there was no food at all left

over by the end of the day!

Goodbye for now,

Miss Moonan.