We have been learning about patterns.  We made different shape, body or colour patterns with our friends.  Then we made our own coloured patterned candy canes.  Some of them were very complicated!

We have started our Christmas mini topic! The children are VERY excited!

We have been writing our own letters to Santa using a range of writing and drawing materials during free-play.  It is fantastic that so many of us are choosing to write in our free-play time.  We have laminated key words, envelopes and stencils to help us develop our ideas.  We will be doing a writing lesson based on these next week.

We are hoping to locate some toy or clothes catalogues e.g. Argos, Next, Toys R us etc. for our drawing table. We will cut them up and use them to develop our skills in sequencing a letter. Please send in any spare catalogues that we could use or you could collect some next time you are shopping. Many thanks!

We enjoyed exploring the gingerbread scented playdough today too!

We also created a range of collage Christmas pictures using a variety of materials.

We have been learning about ordinal numbers e.g. 1st, 2nd etc. We are going to use this newly found knowledge to open our advent calendar each day. We sequenced (and made) a giant paper chain with ordinal numbers. Each day we will cut the part of the paper chain that matches the date of our calendar. The name contained in each cut section will be the person that opens the advent calendar that day.  The chocolates are definitely encouraging us to focus when learning about ordinal numbers! 🙂