This week has been a very full week. We have participated in lots of Christmas experiences: letter writing to Santa, painting snowmen stones and lots of craft experiences. 
During our mince pie and mingle event we sang songs with our families. Today we used the cutout for some photo opportunities.
We also chose to make different kinds of Christmas trees with materials. The photos of these can then be printed for display.
1 more busy week to go! 
This week in the Oak room we celebrated St Andrews Day by making our own tartan pictures, using different materials. We sat together for a special snack of shortbread and then took part in some Scottish dancing and singing. 👯♂️💃🕺🏴🏴
The children then helped to put up our Christmas tree and decorate the windows. It was very exciting. We have talked about the Christmas story, practiced our songs and begun the countdown to Christmas with our advent Calendar. There will be lots of exciting experiences throughout the month to participate in and we look forward to posting some fun pictures.🎄🎄
Exploring our emotions. The children could identify different emotions and talk about it and why they might feel that way. Some of the children even wanted to do some facial expressions matching that emotion.
Creating dinosaurs. The children were taking part in some risky play using scissors to cut objects to stick onto their dinosaur bodies.
Exploring sensory play using shaving foam. The children really enjoyed this activity using different tools to mark make with and they even used their hands/fingers to crate drawings or write with. This encouraged a lot of language amongst them talking about what they were making and discussing each other’s drawings or what they will do next.
Using our fine motor skills through some risky play. The children has shown great interest in using the kitchen utensils to learn how to cut up raw vegetables to put into their soup within the role play area. They were able to manage their safety and those around them by using the knives appropriately.
Developing our pre-writing skills. The children have been working on using pens/pencils to copy numbers/letters developing their skills furthering their learning to write their names and understanding the letters within them.
The children have been participating in some activities relating to rhyme of the week. We have bone practicing the song 1,2,3,4,5. The children created their own hand pictures and even had a shot at singing on the microphone.
We also went to the gym hall and got some apparatus out. The children enjoyed climbing, jumping and balancing. This helped the children’s gross motor skills. They all had great physical fun😀
We have been working so well in a group this week. The children all worked together to build a big tower. The children were learning to share and communicate with each other.
This has been a busy week in the Oak Room. We have been concentrating on Number ordering, syllable games and learning to play together with our new friends. All the children have participated in various experiences throughout the week and we will be moving forward with Syllables, rhymes and songs and developing counting on and back.
We were lucky to have some time in the gym hall on Thursday afternoon and Used the equipment to develop Gross Motor skills, especially rolling and jumping on the large mats.
This week in the oak room the children have been learning all about bonfire night and fireworks. We have participated in lots of experiences around this event, from language games using associated words like Pop, Bang, Whizz, Sparkle, Rocket. 💥🔥
We also created lots of artwork using paint with spatulas, powder paint and water to Splat on the ground. (Apologies to anyone who had a child come home with painted hair). 😁🔴🟢🔵🟠
We had a focus on safety during this time, discussing Frances the Firefly and Fido the Firedog and how important it is to keep safe around fireworks and bonfires.
If anyone is going to displays this weekend, please keep safe.
The children have participated in lots and lots of fun and engaging experiences this week for our Halloween week. pumpkin carving and decorating,. Potion making, Halloween themed games and lots of dressing up and dancing at our Party. We hope you have all enjoyed this week and if you visit the community pumpkin trail, please enjoy and stay safe. Happy Halloween🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
The oak room children have been extremely busy this week. We have been painting with paints and ice cubes and block paints which was a lot of fun.
There has been lots of exploring of the outdoors in the puddles and walks to find chestnuts and Autumnal objects. We then used these loose parts to sort and compare sizes.
Some of the children have been developing physical development using logs and palettes to balance and jump. 
The boys and girls in the Oak room have been discussing aspects of seasonal change in the environment. Learning the names of the four seasons and at Autumn time the leaves turn various colours and fall off the trees, it’s windy and on our walk we find conkers on the ground. We have been learning a new Autumn 🍂 song “ The leaves on the trees turn orange and red”
The Oak room have been exploring feelings.
Learning that we have a range of emotions and developing awareness of how to express our feelings and relating them to everyday experiences.
This week bookbug visited the oak room. The children enjoyed meeting bookbug and played a variety of different games with him. The children picked songs from our song bag and sang them together. Bookbug also read us the story book ‘we are going on a bear hunt’ which the children enjoyed.
The children have been practicing their numeracy skills by counting the boy and girls in the am and pm sessions. They have also been learning to count and recognise the written number form to encourage them to count to 10. We have been using loose parts to do this which the children like.
The children have begun to use our new self-register. The children are learning to find their name by recognising their group names- the green turtles, pink pigs, blue dolphins, red pandas and the grey rabbits. The children are then being encouraged to find their names by recognising their first initial letter.
Why don’t you ask your child their groups which will encourage this great learning further😊
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