Spring Term Week 5
Our highlights of the week were our two Grandparent Mornings! We welcomed 11 grandparents each day and the children really enjoyed themselves and we were able to show the families our circle times and then had a nice cuppa and off for a little explore!
We have been working hard on our physical strength all week and our circle times have been full of laughter and competition and new skills have been acquired.
Star circle – the children have enjoyed lots of music and movement games this week, along with Peppa Pig movement ideas, animal movements and ball skills. Moving over and under hoops, dancing with ribbons and jumping, kicking, rolling and banana banana dancing and dough disco! What a busy week!
Sun and Moon circle – more work on building strength through games such as bean bag challenges, ball passing games, action moves and a brick transporting game carrying heavy buckets! They have learnt how to use the stilts and enjoyed a Forest School session as well in the winter sunshine.
Outside we have been tidying up our bikes, adding new numbers and giving them a clean. We have collected up all our trucks and cars and had a sort out together and built a bike obstacle course and made a train station as well. Lots of lovely vocabulary and play and team work.
Our role play shop has continued this week and the children have really been able to help to tidy it so that it is ready for the next session!
Vet role play has been very popular in the sun room with lots of fantastic language and extending the learning taking place and we have started to look at mini beasts and life cycles very simply ahead of next week when we will be concentrating on it.
Our nurture groups are lovely and we have some great observations from them which really helps the key person with their learning journeys.
Next week is our last week before February Half Term and we will have a garden club outside, more exercise and games and some flower craft inside and life cycle and minibeast topics too. We would love donations of bulbs to plant and some compost please!