Autumn Term Week 10

We have had a really enjoyable week in the cold sunshine! Much more fun available in the lovely gardens here than during those rainy days last week!! We had a week of no planning outside to enable us to watch and observe, join in play, follow the children’s lead and come up with ideas together – we did add in the leaf blower which was absolutely brilliant! The children loved it and there was a lot of shrieking and laughing as the leaves blew all around us, there is a little video on Tapestry for you to see. We have some ideas for next week based on our observations and the group of children that we have this year really love role play and spent time in the sand area making hot chocolates so we are going to set up a Christmas Costa Cafe, which will turn into a Christmas market as well over the coming weeks.

We welcomed Alfie for football on Monday morning which is a lovely set of sessions which the children really enjoy!

We have started on our Christmas preparations and are practising our Xmas songs for the Nativity in the Church, please do let Mandy know if your child is attending.

Our circle times have been based on Maths this week, working on counting and matching numeral and quantity through lots of fun games and activities, it is an area that we will keep working on over the year ahead but lots of practise in spotting number and counting things at home will be a great support for this area.

The Sun and Moon groups have made birthday cakes, counting out candles, had a number race and rolling dice and counting jumps, numicon and counting, Ten in a Bed story time with props, a giant mobile phone to recognise numbers and lego city building!

The Star group have also been working with their maths skills  – lots of number songs, counting, patterns and shape work too.

Our role play inside has been a wonderful hairdressers for the week – the children have been incredibly gentle while doing our hair and really imaginative in their play.

Don’t forget we have our Xmas Bingo on the 6th December – please buy your tickets in advance!