Autumn Term Week 5

We have enjoyed our farm shop role play outside – we set up a shop and a little areas for our pretend animals! Using pink balloons for the pigs in our pen and white for the sheep pen! We loved meeting Claire’s chicken on Monday to bring the role play to life. The chicken visited the 3 afternoon circles and the children loved feeding her and watching her peck away at the grains, also learning the vocab to describe her – wattle and comb.

Our circle times have had a focus on Autumn chat and games and craft, including conker painting, leaf printing, finger painting, Autumn songs and dances, making autumn sun catchers and rolling conkers, making clay hedgehogs and leaf kebabs, sorting leaves in colour and size and marble painting pumpkins and decorating an autumn tree.

We made our own snack again this week – jam muffins, the children love to cook on a Tuesday morning.

On the sun table during free flow we have been exploring autumn and harvest and foods, with some lovely donations – thank you! We have enjoyed a lot of different smoothies which we made together with frozen fruit and water, some pretend pancake making, an exploration of citrus fruits in a tray and making pretend cakes too.

Our observations on the children have been really helpful and we are now able to share an on entry point with you – you will see from these that some areas will be on track developmentally and some will need a bit of nurture – this is usually because we haven’t had enough time to observe all the areas of learning yet but this does give us good info on what we need to plan to help with this and where children may really need a bit of extra support. Any questions please feel free to ask your key person! These forms will be handed out over the coming week and we really value your