Autumn Term Week 12

We have wrapped up warm this week while playing outside in our wonderful sleigh and gingerbread house! We did hope for some snow flurries on Thursday but sadly nothing appeared from the cloudy sky!

Forest School sessions began inside for a while for the craft activity (amazing little owls!) and then moved outside to enjoy the fire and snack time and the garden.

Robot Reg has been to visit for his last session this term – he is such a huge hit with the children and he will be back in the summer term for a new set of sessions, we will hope to be able to afford 6 sessions in the summer so let’s fundraise as much as we can over the year!

Preparations are underway for our performance on the 12th December and all families should have the final information – you are welcome to bring grandparents along with you to the Church and we look forward to welcoming you all.

We have been decorating the trees in each room with the children and very kindly we have received a big donation of decorations with a wonderful light up little town and lots of individual donations from parents too – a big thank you!

We hope that you have all enjoyed your parent consultations and looking at the learning journeys, they will fill up over the year ahead and become treasured memories we hope for you and your family. We feel we know the children really well after this first term and have great ideas of where to go next with their learning, with your information from home and next steps handed out we have lots of new plans for January already!

The learning focus has been maths this week and lots of the circle times have given us some great observations. The children are making good progress in this area and we will revisit this in January.

Star group – working hard on patterns and matching patterns, counting dots and singing number songs, they have made some lovely Christmas trees counting out the pom poms and enjoyed singing number songs and using shapes to make Christmas trees too.

The Sun and Moon group have been learning about recognising numbers, matching numerals to quantity and counting out the right number of items for each numeral. We have learnt about 2D and 3D shapes and made tally charts, matched and organised and counted Christmas decorations and played a Christmas sound matching game.

Our free flow Christmas post office has been full on children mark making and talking all week and we have been persevering to complete Christmas puzzles and now it is the 1st December the Christmas tunes have started!

Next week we are going to be setting up lots of Christmas craft for the children to make to bring home and Christmas stories in our cosy gingerbread house and wrapping station. The sun room will have Christmas cooking activities and gingerbread playdoh too.