Term 1

Week 1

This week we enjoyed settling into our new classroom, meeting new friends and learning new things! The book we looked at this week was each peach, pear and plum. It is a story filled with traditional nursery rhymes and encourages the children to find them within the illustrations. We even created our own pear pictures using tissue paper, glue, pens, and highlighters.

During some phonics this week, we attempted some play dough disco to help with the children's fine motor skills. We had to splat, pinch, roll and stretch out play dough to familiar nursery rhymes. We also tried some alphabet yoga. The children had to copy the shapes of the letters from the board using their bodies. They really enjoyed this!

There was lots of lovely learning happening during child initiated this week. We had pizza making with play dough and different herbs and spices. We used our fine motor skills to create different colours and shapes on pasta sheets using different coloured pens and crayons. Tea making in the home corner, as well as lots of fun learning in our new outdoor space which the children loved exploring!

We had an amazing visit from the lovely Nina from Boogie tots, which was lots of fun! We used a parachute to re-enact five little monkeys jumping on the bed and the grand old Duke of York, as well as lots of dancing to some of our other favourite songs.

We finished the week off reading Cinderella together as a class and spoke about seeing her in our story of the week each peach, pear and plum.

Week 2