Term 1

My Daddies!

 

For our final book this term, we read "My Daddies!" Plum Tree's explored lot's of different activities surrounding families. We made saltdough faces and painted faces on them, we all worked together using the white board to draw our families and we looked at the family pictures that were sent in and described how our families looked, names of family members and how not all families look the same. In white rose math's, we looked into number names. We sang nursery rhymes which had repeating patterns and numbers, we also read the three little pigs.

            

                                                      

In P.E this week, our them was Superhero's! We played a game called Mrs Freeze, we would run around and when Mrs Freeze would say "Freeze" we had to stop and stay still. The children worked well listening and using their physical skills to stop and go. The parachute came out this week, the children explored how to wave it up and down, move underneath and on top and run to the colour we named.

                      

                                                           

During our learning time this week, the children have shown a real interest in our magnetic learning resources which include Manga tiles, puzzle and an old fashioned fishing game. We also had puzzles, water with different measuring equipment, chalk boards, chalk, train track, wooden cars and blocks and sticklenbricks. Outside the children used the safety knifes and peelers to cut vegetables. In the water area, the children made lemonade, and the obstacle course was still being explored!

                

           

                 

          

               

We also welcomed parent's into the nursery for our parent engagement. They made sandwiches with their little one's and read them some stories. 

 

               

 

 

Percy the park keeper

Our book of the week was Percy the park keeper. We looked at the book together and discussed what we might find in the park, along with what wildlife could live there and changes in the trees going into Autumn and some animals going into hibernation. Then we went on a trip to a local park to explore and see what we could find.

 

 

         

In maths this week, we did lots of singing to hear and say number names: 1,2,3,4,5. Once I caught a fish alive,5 little ducks, 5 speckled frogs are just some that we covered.

 

 

PE this week was monster-themed. We were following pathways using benches and role-playing being monsters. We demonstrated great balancing and navigation between being big and small monsters.

                                           

 

 

               

 

In child initiated, the children did lots of exploring, looking for bugs and spiders. We made walls from building blocks ,had woodland soup in the mud kitchen. We got our fine motor skills working and had a dough disco which involved manipulating playdough whilst singing.

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara has a Wobbler week 2

This week in Plum Trees, we have continued to explore activities around Barbara throws a Wobbler. As the book is about emotions, we introduced the colour monster teddies in the form of a colour monster hunt. The children needed to look carefully around the room to spot them. Once they found them, we asked the children to let us know if the colour monster is sad, happy, angry, tec to promote expressive language. Another activity to encourage expressive language was drawing ourselves. The children looked at their reflection and once they had drawn their picture, we asked them what their emotions were in the picture. In White rose maths this week, we looked at exploring repeats through song such as the grand old Duke of York and creating patterns with the coloured blocks.   

                                      

 In P. E this week we transformed into mythical creatures. Using bean bags, we worked on our co-ordination, imagination and gross motor skills by moving around like fairies, unicorns and dragons. 

        

  

   During our learning time this week, the children explored a range of books, puzzles, sticklebricks, using the white board to make marks, created Autumn pictures and cut our own fruit for snack. Whilst outside there was lots of singing, climbing, jumping, making dinner, painting, driving a bus!

                    

                      

Also, a huge well done to Archie who received our Greenfields Greatness this week for Teamwork!

Barbara throws a wobbler

During the first week of Barbara throws a wobbler, we looked at the story and discussed Barbara's emotions and how she was feeling. For our adult-directed activities, the children made their own wobblers using coloured dabbers and googly eyes. We also used different coloured bean bags to represent emotions and threw them into hoops. The children also began to learn about autumn and the changes it brings.

      

 

  

 

In maths this week we looked at comparisons: more than, fewer than and the same as. We demonstrated this using multiline cubes.

 

 

    

 

For PE this week it was monster-themed. We concentrated on social, emotional and thinking skills.

We were happy monsters, angry monsters and scared monsters navigating our way around the pe equipment,

The children had a busy week this week in child-initiated, exploring the playdough, working on their scissor skills, cutting fresh herbs, spotting autumn changes to the room and exploring the outdoor area making their own assault course.

              

 

 

Meg and Mog

This week, we have been exploring the book Meg and Mog in Plum Tree's. During our adult directed activities this week, we went on a spell hunt, created a sensory witch hat where we closed our eyes and felt what was in the hat and in P.E, we put on our witches hat's and explored moving around whilst being careful to create enough space and to listen to instructions, we sang hop little witches,witch statues and completed an obstacle course. 

During our child initiated time, the children explored placing pipe cleaners into wooden discs, using scissors to cut paper, dinosaurs digging through the sand, lot's of role play in the mud kitchen and using wood to make ramps for the trucks.

                           

                      

                        

                                                 

                                        
        
       

Three Little Pigs

During this week's adult-directed activities, we have been looking at The Three Little Pigs. We used puppets to retell the story, looked at the differences between real pigs, we also made houses from different materials. 

In our white rose maths sessions, we looked at recognising 1,2,3. We ensured this was in our environment planning to continue supporting their learning.

In P.E, we became pirates, walking the plank, listening to instructions and moving around safely in our own space.

                             

                                                        

 

                                                                                   

Settling in week

This week, we have welcomed lots of new faces into Plum Trees. The children have done incredibly well, settling into their new classroom and exploring all the changes to our environment and our new routine. 

During our adult-directed activities this week, we had a dough disco. The children listened beautifully to the directions and were focused throughout. We took part in lots of music and movement this week, including a number of songs from BBC sounds and the children independently choosing their own songs with our singing spoons.

This week we have been focusing on getting to know the children, working on our fine motor skills with activities such as, puzzles, multilink cubes, linking keys and making prints in playdough. In our learning environment, the children explored cutting, sticking and creating pictures using paint dabbers. We had sticklebricks, which were used to make houses, castles and towers! Whilst exploring our outdoor learning environment this week, we practised our balancing, creating meals in our kitchen area, and digging with dinosaurs in the sand.