We have some lovely new provision areas in our classroom and the children have been producing some amazing things. The train track has come to life with children building elaborate bridges over the tracks, setting up loops and adding trees to the middle sections.
Our shop is coming to life with children queueing to buy food, paying at the tills and getting a receipt for their food. We have fake money with food being priced at the till by our cashiers!
Christmas week photo update!
Nativity week! We have been building up to this all half term, the children were performance ready and have loved dressing up, saying their lines and wiggling to the songs. Here is our filmed performance for anyone who wants to watch it again! We are so proud of the children as standing on the stage is daunting at any age. Thank you for all of your support with costumes, line learning and song singing!
Buddy book night! What a lovely evening we had, albeit a little crazy! Unfortunately our tv screen is not working in our classroom, so although we had some chilled out Christmas songs playing on the laptop, there was no short film or Christmas show to watch to keep everyone calm! We had 30 minutes of madness, including hot chocolate, presents, biscuits and playing with our buddies. The best bit was being in pyjamas at school of course!
This week we have been dressing up in some of our school nativity costumes. The children have independently been acting out scenes from our nativity and from the Christmas story.
We have enjoyed thinking about a journey story this week after learning about Mary and Josephs journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
The children made up their own journey stories for their story squiggle and we had some fantastic ideas!
This week has been very exciting as the children have been out in the small amount of snow we have had and have been exploring ice and frost.
They have been keeping warm inside and also learning how to play snakes and ladders. Dice games are great for supporting the children’s subitising skills up to 6 and further supports their 1-1 correspondence when moving their counter up the board. We practiced going down the snakes and climbing up the ladders!
This week we had our very first school trip. The coach was very exciting and we looked at the similarities and differences between coaches and buses. We had lots of fun exploring the woodland and taking part in activities related to the Gruffalo characters. After our packed lunches we headed back outside to explore the area. Mud kitchen, rope swing, den building and much more!
The children have loved being back at school this week and are making the most of being outside before it gets too cold! We have been learning about Remembrance Day this week and we have watched the cbeebies ‘Poppies’ video to support our learning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/poppies
Next week within school we will be having an assembly where we will go to lay our class wreaths. Here is our poppy, made with our hand prints.
We are also loving our library slot with Mis Whiteley and the children are so focussed when there. We are learning to look at the pictures and tell ourselves what might be happening in the story.
Scrambled egg…who new making and eating scrambled egg could be so much fun! A few children collected eggs from our hens and we decided to make something we could enjoy at school. We used the kitchen in Nursery and the children each cracked an egg, whisked, poured a splash of milk in, poured into the pan and stirred on the hob. The demand for a small portion of scrambled egg was unrivalled and lots of children asked me the next day whether we could make it again.
The children are loving writing our phonics sounds and this week we have had a real focus on writing our names.
This week we have been doing lots of Autumnal craft and activities. We had a pumpkin for the children to explore in the craft area and they decided to chop it up. We used child friendly kitchen equipment and Leen had the idea to cook the pumpkin. We put it in the oven in Nursery and we all tried a piece at snack time. The children could not decide whether they liked it or not, but the plate was left empty! We even chopped up more to put in the oven, along with some seeds.
