Up, up, up…. up in a balloon, I’m so high I can touch the sky!  We have been flying in our hot air balloons! We’ve seen tiny cars, minuscule people, birds, the tops of trees and winding rivers. Sky scrapers boats, clouds and lakes. We have felt the cold air in our hair and felt the wet water droplets as we floated through clouds…

We have read and watched these two hot air balloon stories…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkI8IDR-uTI The Great Balloon Halabaloo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCGVNuEAkI The Noon Balloon 

We have embarked upon making papier mache hot air balloons … the process is taking much longer than we ever imagined! We will keep you posted on this !!

Our other hot air balloon creative activity was rather more successful.

We have continued to practice our number and letter formation in a variety of fun ways to encourage more participation – the glitter has definitely been a big hit this week!

We have had a  go at bubble art work – dyed bubble mixture – blowing bubbles onto paper – we all enjoyed it there is no doubt – the results were however quite dubious and most children dyed their hands instead of any paper! I apologise for this – you never quite know how an activity will pan out and although popular,  this one was adapted by many and hands took the brunt of the dye.

Different sizes, different amounts of bubbles – this has been so much fun!

We have had the playdough back …

 

 

Our number activities included…

 

 

 

We have done lots of hot air balloon writing…

and many different phonic games to embed our sounds…

More fine motor skills work …

 

Our kites are up…

 

Here are the children having fun with the hoops at play time..

 

…and here is our lovely Mrs Mooney – you know your children are in safe hands – she has just received her Paediatric First Aid Certificate from her latest course.

Congratulations Mrs Mooney!