Summer Term Week 2
Our pirate play has been great fun this week – we have used the children’s interest in this theme to lead counting and maths work in our group times which has worked brilliantly!
Stars have been playing pop up pirate and counting the swords and taking turns, they have counted Pirate treasure and counted gems and started to learn to recognise numbers. The Stars have learnt a pirate counting song and explored pirate patterns and counting using dice.
The Sun and Moon groups have received letters from Pirate Pete, reading their names and the numbers inside and counting out gold coins, they have played a game where they roll a dice and carry out the pirate action for that number, played “What’s the time Mr Pirate” and played a canon ball water balloon game, counting how many they managed to make splash me!
We love building all the learning goals into fun activities and to hearing what has been happening in your families too and one idea has led to a whole week of planning! One family sent in a video and photos of sheep shearing so we are going to set up a farm yard in our garden! We would love any donations of farm leaflets, tractor magazines or anything else you think we could use! Photos from farm visits, leaflets of farm days out perhaps or photos of animals you spot while out on a walk!
Our chatter box has been popular on the table, we have added a photo onto facebook and on Tapestry as well for you to see the array of interesting items that the staff found to bring in!
Outside we have been working on our Maths – we have been counting and collecting natural items and laying them out on the patio in number order. We have made a big clock on the fence and used sprayers to spray numbers on cars and played lots of pirate games too! Canonball games, made eye patches and pirate flags and walked the plank – a lot!
Our second mindful Thursday was wonderful! Peaceful, breathing activities in the group, feeling the bubbles land on us and then gently catching the feathers, one each before washing hands for lunch.
We hope everyone has a lovely bank holiday weekend and see you all on Tuesday.