Autumn Term Week 2

We have had a wonderful week creating our own Disney land! Lots of dressing up, chatter, singing and dancing, games and crafts and our own Disney castle outside in our garden. The children have really enjoyed talking to us about their favourite films and characters. We have posted lots of photos of the activities from our week on facebook and we will be collecting consent forms so that we can share group photos from our session on our Tapestry news feed.

We have been mark making outside, chalk on the stones, painting the fence, large scale painting on long rolls of paper using big and small brushes and mud painting.

Our circle times have been Disney themed as well and we pop lots of learning opportunities into our planning so that the children make progress but within themes and activities that they find really exciting and fun.

The Sun and Moon group have learnt some new games – Frozen Tag, Hulk Hero mission and What’s the time Woody!, they have also talked about favourite films, created their own superhero’s, make Rapunzel plaits with salt dough, spotted and glued down missing pieces from Rapunzel pictures, lots of colouring, Disney Bingo and Frozen I Spy, built Disney houses and made Mickey Mouse biscuits.

The Star group has played a Disney dance and freeze game, done some pom pom painting for Mickey mouse, made king and queen crowns, built towers for Rapunzel and made Disney “Up” balloon pictures. The star circle is quite short while we work on building up concentration and learning the routines and then we go into our snack time before going outside.

Next week we will carry on our Disney wonderland with more dressing up, a Disney cafe outside with fairground games in the garden.

Inside we will be playing some maths games to inform where the children are with those skills so that we can work on areas together, we will also be having Story Sacks out which are bags full of props for each story which really helps with listening and attention skills. We have added in some construction on the carpet as well as this is an area that the children are showing a real interest in.

We would love donations of the following items to help with our planning as we are a charity and funds are tight! Food colouring, pots of dried herbs and cinnamon and ground ginger please. Thank you!