6th October 2023
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Forest School Activity |
Autumn Art |
As we move into our second topic of the term Autumn, on Monday we ventured out of school on our Autumn walk. We headed over the road to our other Forest School sites and began to look for signs of Autumn. We returned with a collection of skeleton leaves, feathers and acorns. You enjoyed using these alongside the sticks found in our Forest School to create some Autumn art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. |
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Write Dance (Gross Motor) |
The Penguin Dance |
We have enjoyed being penguins this week to work on our gross motor skills. Our arms became flippers as we flapped our way around the cabin with our waddling legs. This dance is always a good one to practise balancing on one leg as you move your weight from one to the other. Teach your family this weekend how to do it! |
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Listening Game |
Match the Sound |
We continued to learn how to stay quiet during circle time games with a matching instrument game. Mrs Mander shared her five musical instruments on the five frame and you enjoyed taking it in turns to match the sound of an unseen instrument. Instrument sounds are a lot of fun when you are 3 and 4 and lots of you enjoyed exploring them on the balcony during outdoor play and explore. |
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Maths |
The Number 2 |
With the weather a little warmer this week we enjoyed some Maths games outdoors. A popular one this week was when we had to make a team of two with the “10-second hug” game. We hugged a friend, counted forwards to 10 and then found a new friend as we counted backwards from 10. It is more important for us that the children count to and from 10 rather than counting beyond 10. |
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Communication and Language |
The Leaf Thief |
We always start the Autumn topic with this story! A lovely story about the change of season which led into some role play during your circle time with Mrs Allen. You enjoyed playing a hide and seek game with the leaves on the patio and making a boat for “mouse”. |
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Forest School Game |
Early in the morning |
Now we are “super speedy” with getting our waterproofs and boots on for our afternoon session outdoors, we have introduced our weekly patio game. This week we have been singing “Early in the morning” and took it in turns to travel around the circle, delivering 4 letters (wooden blocks) to our friends. This led to us into playing “posties” all afternoon and enjoying posting letters in the post boxes (crates). |
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Dough Disco (Fine Motor) |
Green Green Grass, George Ezra |
I am sure the children are coming home singing this song on repeat as I have been! What a song - thank you Theo for choosing. We talked about George Ezra and the instrument he can play at the same time as singing. We also made comparisons with him and last week’s Harry Styles and how they both live in the same country as us. We have learnt how to “sausage roll” the dough and added the push down, push up, criss-cross arms for the chorus! Thank you Lily for next week’s choice – this is a new one for all of us. Keep these “disco” song requests coming in! |
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A message for parents – it was wonderful to see so many of you at our Open Evening on Wednesday night and for you to see the areas where the children spend their days. We caught up with most of you but for those that we didn’t, we will be allocating those parent consultation times next week (thank you for the fast return of the slips!). This is an opportunity to chat some more about your little one and for you to get a glimpse of their learning journeys. Mrs Mander, Mrs Allen and Mrs Franklin X |
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