The end of a very busy half term.....

This week has been delight in watching the children use and apply the new skills they have learnt.

In phonics we have spent our week using the sounds we have learnt so far by blending these to read simple words. We especially enjoyed our funny phonics pirate game in doing so.

Funky fingers is an exciting part of everyday life in Cherry class now and the children really are developing those fine motor skills through a range of fun activities. Here are some.

Dough gym is a favourite weekly activity.

Putting chocolate cubes into the chocolate box using tweezers only!

Using 'Pog' cards and a dice to turn over a matching number of cards, one at a time.

Adding coloured Cheerios onto the octopus body one at a time.

Lacing dinosaurs...

The children have also had fun exploring our new exciting adventure playground activities, although we did have a couple of children who didn't want to go on and opted for other play activities on the playground.

Have a lovely half term my little cherries........

Sponsored bounce

Today the children enjoyed our Sponsored bounce event. They bounced their little socks off in one whole minute of bouncing time! We'll done to all the little cherries and their sponsors for supporting this event.

This week we have been learning about long and short and have investigated this concept through lots of practical activities.

Stuart sorted the snakes in order of size. 

James and Henry enjoyed using the play dough to at first make different length snakes and then to make a cake with long icing piped around the edge! Yum!

Henry and India found a very long piece of wool and used it to make a bridge which they then played 'limbo' with!

Phoebe helped to find a way to attach the wool because it kept falling down.

See our handprints hanging up above Henry? We used these to find objects longer and shorter than them.

Noah found a pencil longer than his hand and a bead which was a lot shorter than it.

George made a very long necklace using the beads.

We have enjoyed using our long plastic pipes to explore ramps and have adapted the ways they were put together so that the cars could travel down.

We've loved dressing up.

And have spent lots of time writing and drawing for different purposes.

And we just love using the big paintbrushes to paint with and to wash the windows!!

Firefighter Cherries!!!

Last week we were lucky to have the local fire service visit our school. They were here to help with a project in Rowen class but were keen to talk to us too....

We got to sit in the fire truck...

Annie's Daddy then talked to us about keeping safe if ever our clothes caught fire, and especially when wearing dressing up costumes near pumpkins. We know how to "stop, drop and roll".

We were aloud to have a go with the fire hose. Mrs Hough even had a go!!

Thank you for a lovely 'surprise' visit!! 

Welcome to Cherry Class blog!

We are now 'blog up and running'!!! 

The children are now settling into school life and routines.

You may have heard talk about 'funky fingers'? This is a daily activity which is designed to improve fine motor control and development. We start with a whole class 'warm up'

We do have fun and we do smile....honest!!

We then move onto group activities which are rotated through the week. These focus more on developing the muscles in the hands and fingers.

Here we are doing 'dough gymn'. We do this activity every week. Look at our 'disco fingers'!!

Then we have picture cards to turn over and stack...

And here we are putting the chocolates in the box with tweezers!!

Threading the dinosaurs..

And decorating the octopus with coloured Cheerios....(sorry we can't find those photos...). 

Each week the activities change. The children are loving it!!