Autumn Term Week 11

We have had a wonderful week in our theatre/cinema role play – please do look at the videos on tapestry as they are so lovely, full of fun and confidence and music and dancing and we really hope this will build confidence ahead of our performance at the Church on the 11th December.

Each staff member has been responsible for creating a literacy tray in the mornings and we have seen a really great range of imaginative trays and those will be posted on the activities section of Tapestry later and also on our facebook page. A great way for us to share examples of our planning with you to support home learning alongside the next steps you have been sent on Tapestry too. Don’t forget to log in and look and comment or like our observations and memos.

Our overall focus for our circles has been exploring maths – so many different activities have supported progress in the children’s learning.

Sun and Moon – We have counted ice cream cones, explored wood and plastic sets of Numicon

Numicon guide for parents – Oxford Owl for Home

We have also learnt about patterns, different ways to represent numbers, played musical numbers, counted jumps, recognised numbers and heights and measured feet, finding the right number for our size and counting in lots of creative and active and fun ways and the children have done brilliantly.

Stars – have enjoyed sorting pom poms into size, sorted large and small objects to learn about the concept of size and language, enjoyed counting songs, played a musical statue shape game, and played “silly soup” with numbers as well.

We have set up collage trays and Christmas stories and our sleigh outside is very popular and we have set up a little Christmas home corner as well and decorated our trees in each room.

Next week we will have a festive cafe inside and would love donations of cinnamon, ginger, Christmas paper plates and cups and hot chocolate and cotton wool balls and Christmas napkins please.