Autumn Term Week 3

Another amazing week settling 9 new children in and with beautiful autumn sunshine to help us! Our Forest School sessions have been bathed in autumn light and our garage and our mini mechanics have been super busy fixing and cleaning our bikes outside.

Our circle times have had a focus on physical development and we have had so much fun!
The Moon and Sun groups have played lots of games including a parachute game, a competitive ball game, lots of cheering each other on with quick hand movements needed and good co-ordination too! They have enjoyed a tricky obstacle course, balloon games, some yoga, some action songs and dances and a scoop and balance game – great learning through great ideas from the group leaders!

The Star group have also been active and jumping around! They have played a spin the arrow movement game, sticky kids which is a CD we have that has lots of movement songs, some stop and start action games, catching and throwing, over and under hoops and dough gym to build arm strength and ribbon dancing too.

There are some wonderful photos of our week on the parent gallery so please do have a look with your child and chat about the children’s names, we can see some lovely friendships forming too.

We have been exploring maths on the sun table during free flow and construction and our colourful mud kitchen outside has been a big hit with the children so this will continue to be played with next week too.

Next week we will be learning about Autumn on the sun table during free flow, please can you collect leaves and some twigs for us to use in our craft! We will also be playing outside, clearing the astro and using the ideas from circle time to play games to develop our physical and co-ordination skills – hoping for more sunshine too!

All children will have an on entry sheet over the next two week which plots their starting point with us and helps us plan our activities and circle times to ensure all children make progress with us, this info will be shared with you in paper form for you to make notes on for your key person to read to inform all our work here. We have a key person meeting on Monday and we chat about how everyone has settled in and any worries that we have and what we can be working on. This includes speech and language groups so if you have any worries about understanding your child please do let your key person know and your child can join our Launch into Language programme.

Our AGM is on Monday and I will be preparing a report for that to share with you all and we look forward to welcoming a new committee to work with Mandy and myself. A Teams link will be sent today.