Headteacher: Anna Moss

Forest School Activity

Scarecrows

Harry and Betty are all ready to go on show tomorrow as you have all worked hard with Mrs Allen to create the Early Years contribution to the festival.  We look forward to seeing lots of you there as you follow the trail to see what characters Blackwell has to offer.

Write Dance

(Gross Motor)

Row the Boat

We have been picking up our oars and rowing with them with straight and bent arms.  Adding in the forward and backward action with our bodies was the “challenge”.  Our favourite part was definitely rowing in a “two-person” boat whilst sitting opposite a friend.  

Listening Game

Bubbles and Tickle sticks

It has been all about practising sitting still this week as we played musical bumps.  When the music stopped, you showed us your best sitting – legs crossed, hands in laps.  You were far too good and so Mrs Allen and I dug out the bubbles and tickle sticks to make you wriggle and move.

Maths

Two or not Two

Balancing

As we all joined from Forest School, we played a sorting game of “two or not two”.  This was a chance for us to begin working on our “subitising” skills.  Subitising is seeing the number without the need to count.  Nursery children should be able to see 1,2,3 with just their eyes and we will begin this next week with a subitising song (everything has a song!).  We also enjoyed some outdoor learning with the planks/blocks as we tried to make the scales balance and find out which friend was heavier.

Communication and Language

Pumpkin Soup

A gorgeous story about a squirrel, a duck and a cat as they tried to work together to make some pumpkin soup.  Mrs Allen brought in her own pumpkin and you had a chance to take a look inside.  You enjoyed role playing the story with the soft toy animals too.

Forest School Game

A Tisket, A Tasket

A twist on last week’s song as we placed our letter into a green and yellow basket.  The “postie” continued to be careless as they travelled around the circle and kept on dropping that letter.  We think they need to change their job!  We sang along to the song – enjoy it this weekend.  A Tisket, A Tasket - Nursery Rhyme Song for Preschoolers and Toddlers - YouTube

Dough Disco

(Fine Motor)

Agadoo, Black Lace

We said Good Morning to Colin and Alan (in a photograph) every morning as we enjoyed Harriet’s favourite disco song.  It was funny to hear the stories last night of the children trying to tell you which song it was through clues.  Every day we talk about the artist, the song and where they come from by looking at their flag before we move our dough to the song.  We have tried our hardest to keep up with this fast paced song this week with an added dough difficulty.  Time to move on (!) to a three-day recap on songs next week.

A message for parents – it was lovely to meet most of you this week and have a chance to chat about how their first half term has gone.  The targets set are for us all to work on and any way you can help with these at home would help us.  The Prime areas – PSED, C&L and Physical – are key for all children of all ages and will be an excellent grounding as they begin BIG school next year.

Mrs Mander, Mrs Allen and Mrs Franklin X