Summer Term Week 7
Welcome back to the last half term of the year, we can’t believe how quickly the year has gone and before long we will be busy meeting our new children at their session visits and then saying goodbye to all our friends who are off to school!
Lots of fun ahead before then though with trips to the primary schools and visits from the teachers, transition documents to write and visits from Animals 2 U, a Teddy Bears picnic and lots of gardening to be done!
This week we have had a focus on literacy and fairy tales. Our main book has been Jack and the Beanstalk and the circle times have used the book as a theme for learning – adding in lots of brilliant teaching.
Outside we have planted seeds, flowers and vegetables and they are now tucked away in our growing garden. This garden does need some work so we will be setting up a garden nurture club each week for children to come and help weed and dig and sort and tidy!
We would love donations of compost and bark for the garden please, along with shaving foam, paper straws, packets of bread mix, cotton wool and sprinkles for cakes and fresh flowers! Next week we will be baking and cooking and making food and chatting about being healthy and about allergies and trying new fruits as well.
On the Sun table we have been exploring colour and then in free flow we have been learning about weather and how it changes.
Star circle – the group have been reading lots of fairy tales and talking about what happens in the sequence of the story. They have read Little Red Riding Hood, made houses for the 3 little pigs, sorted objects with Goldilocks, made their own Goldilocks pictures, acted out the Billy Goats Gruff and made beanstalks using Maths to count out leaves.
The Sun and Moon groups have enjoyed lots of story sacks, have played I Spy looking for characters from the stories by listening to clues, played a beanstalk counting game, made a giant beanstalk by working together to create the artwork, made their own story books with some brilliant mark making and ideas, used leaves to spell out names, measure feet to match to the Giant’s feet and used leaves with numbers painted on them to count out magic beans!
We will be continuing with Fairy Tales next week, along with setting up our own Costa coffee shop outside for role play!