Sunday 17 January 2016

All this lovely learning in only a week?!

Some weeks, more than others,we find that the children's interests really drive our learning journey. This week has been one of those! It's been a week of wonder and joy😀.
We started the week thinking about clothes we wear in winter which led nicely with our maths focus on patterns and repeated patterns. Using the story of 'One Snowy Night' helped with both of these and we have recreated a lovely patterned patchwork quilt for Percy and his friends with our very own Hazel class friends. Make sure to look at our lovely display on Tuesday during 'Open school' ( it is in the small hall). 



The children have been really enjoying patterns and even decided to add repeating patterns in some of their funky finger activities!



Great patterns children!

The children have decided that they wanted a house for our role play area. They decided we needed a sofa and a TV too! And since there has been an arrival of a new baby cousin, the children insisted on having babies. We talked about caring for babies and what they might need. We bathed them and changed their nappies and gave them some milk.


We even made a nappy basket and a box with milk bottles in and some children made labels so that they didn't get jumbled up!

The most popular programme on TV has been the weather report.....snow in East Harling!
We were very excited to see the snow on Thursday but sad it didn't last long and so we created our own!
Take some cornflour

Add some of Daddy's shaving foam....well, quite a bit.....
And mix ......
Do you wanna build a snowman??!!
Yes we do!

And some snowballs!


We also got the 'crazy soap' out and enjoyed playing in this.

Those that didn't want to get 'messy' opted for 'Frozen' music and we had some lovely dressing up, singing and dancing.

As we celebrated Birthdays in class, it was mentioned that we needed cakes. Some children made little cakes ( all by themselves, honest!). We shared them with a DVD of the story 'Can't you sleep little bear' which we had enjoyed sharing earlier in the week. The children loved seeing a story they had heard and enjoyed being brought to life.









Sunday 10 January 2016

Fun in the sun!

We like to use the ride on toys but our own outside area is not big enough nor safe enough for us to do this. We therefore use the big playground when the weather is fine so that we can practise our gross motor skills. Here we are on the ride on toys in the lovely sunshine on Friday....
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Do you think we had fun??
Look at our faces....those smiles speak for themselves!

Thursday 7 January 2016

Christmas party

We had fun at our Christmas party and shared this with Nursery and Hazel classes. 



We enjoyed playing Pass the parcel.




















Musical statues😀






  
We had a great time with our friends.


  Making Christmas cakes....















We hope you enjoyed them😀