This week in the birch room we have been having lots of fun learning about firework safety, firework arts, children’s rights and exploring starry night painting by Van Gogh.

This week we started off by reading the colour monster story, we followed this up by making our own colour monster from junk modelling materials to add to our wall, we also made colour monster sensory jars.

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This week we have had lots of fun, we had a lovely bookbug session where we were exploring numbers. We really liked the number songs using the Lycra and were developing our skills of counting backwards.

we have been very busy this week explore some different ways to build. We explored some spaghetti and playdough, magnetic bricks and some light up Lego.

we also explored the concept of  floating and sinking where we found different objects and predicted what would happen to them when placed in the water. We used circles to display our results and found more objects that was floating than sinking.

We have had lots of fun during maths week and participated in some great activities where we explored symmetry, numbers and amount, measuring and 2D and 3D shapes.

we also listened to the story the three little pigs and have been re-telling the story using some picture props.

We had lots of fun in the garden and the playroom exploring gravity  with the guttering with balls and Pom poms.
“it’s going fast”

”it’s stuck, it’s too big”

This week we have been looking at road safety as lots of children have been walking to the ECC  and talking about how to stay safe when walking.

we have been focusing on lots of number work in the garden and during small group times.

This week the children have been exploring feelings and emotions through different experiences. Most of the children also took part in a peer massage session.

This week we have been developing our listening and attention skills while visiting the school gym hall.
The children enjoyed participating in different games to develop this skill

We have also been exploring mindfulness through cosmic yoga.

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This week in the birch room we have been exploring large boxes where we developed our imagination skills, large physical and problem solving skills to make some different structures using some loose parts.

we had some fun outdoors with some skipping ropes where we were practicing turn taking, jumping and developing our balancing skills.

We also had fine with some frozen water and managed to set free some dinosaurs while using some mallets, or little picks or anything else we thought might work. We used very good attention skills and was learning to stay safe while using some real tool.

Week beginning 22/08/22

The children have been settling in, meeting new friends and having fun. We have been learning about our golden rules and daily routines, playing outdoors and exploring out new resources within the room.

Children were very excited to be able to let our butterflies go, we have all watched them go into the cocoon for 28 days then turn into butterflies.

Creating a very impressive home for the dinosaurs, drawing plans to constructing the well planned out home.

Adventures in the woods looking for mini beast, doing transient art and looking at our transition tree.