Hello and welcome to all of our new and returning Oak room families. This is where we update experiences each week that the children have been participating in.
This week we have been getting to know each other, learning to play and work together and make new friends.

We have been encouraging independence in play choices, engaging in role-play, where we have been chopping and preparing vegetables and cooperating with our friends. We used our listening skills to identify the animal sounds from the cd game.
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Here are our last photos from the summer, when we were lucky enough to have the paddling pools out. ☀️☀️
The children had lots of fun in the sun splashing in/out of the pools and keeping cool by using the water guns on each other! And on the ladies. 😂😂
It has been a busy and eventful summer.
Best wishes to everyone moving onto different playrooms/primary school and we look forward to seeing our returners on Thursday. 

As we approach the last full week of the summer, the children have been engaged in lots of experiences alongside their friends. We have  made the most of the nicer weather when it appeared. ☀️
Exploring the sand and water, looking at how it flows and moves through different media.

The children have developed climbing and balancing by working together to design obstacle courses.

There has been a variety of Role Play, recreating real life situations and utilising the various loose parts. We have also experienced some talented singers this week. 🥳😉
What a time we have had!

The children who attend during the summer have been getting to know each other and all the staff during this time.
They have been making independent play choices and developing their own interests during our first few weeks.

There have been lots of opportunities to develop interests and add loose parts to enhance play.
The children asked to paint our Loose part vehicles and worked together to use the right tools, using mathematical language of bigger, smaller, more space, more paint, that’s a little bit there.
There was lots of collaboration, communication and independent decisions being made.
Some of the PM group decided to build tyre stacks and climb inside. They were encouraged to collect and roll these by themselves with adult assistance to climb in, and stop them tipping over! 😉

We have also seen some Army Assault course type tyre fun with the children trying to run across them!
some time in the Gym Hall, has encouraged the children to develop skills in climbing and balancing. It’s been a busy few weeks so far, and we are only half way through!

What a busy week we have had in the Oak room.

On Tuesday the PM group went on a nice big walk to the park. During this visit to the park we were developing our road safety awareness.

Children had a fabulous time at the Summer party

This week was a tale of two halves with the weather!
At the beginning of the week we had lovely sunshine which allowed us to get outside and play in the water. We used the tray to pour and various resources to catch the water, filling and measuring.

We have also been working hard as a team to create group works of art. Both the AM and PM children have been working together, expressing their creativity in group art projects using paint in squeeze bottles, and chalk paint on paper on our walls.

This week has seen the release of our beautiful butterflies. We have really enjoyed learning all about how they grow and develop and it has been great to see the children engaging with each stage.  they were very excited to watch them fly away.

This week we have also been engaging in some conversations about foods we like/dislike and this has developed lots of descriptive language. There has been lots of fruit based painting and some food tasting sessions where I’m sure you can see by the children’s facial expressions what they didn’t like the taste of! 😂😂

The children have had a busy week this week with periods of independent play indoors and out, and even a bit of movement with Tumble tots. 🕺💃

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Well done to all the children who have joined in our jubilee celebrations this week. We have been very excited to receive a reply to our letter from Buckingham Palace. The children were very pleased to have all their questions answered. 👍🏽🤔

We have been very busy making biscuits and muffins for our party, creating pictures of the queen and exploring materials to work together to build our castle.

And finally we had lots of fun at our Garden Party, celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee. We hope you all have a lovely few days off, whatever you are doing.

We are learning about the Queen in the lead up to the Jubilee. The children recognised that she wears a crown so wanted to make their own crowns. They added some “jewels” as “that’s what the Queen would have too”.

We have been exploring our performing arts skills by using our outdoor stage. The children have been very creative with this and been putting on shows for the staff and children to come and watch involving some singing and dancing and even some acting.

We have been using many loose parts around the room and incorporating them into our play. We have been working on our team building skills working together to help build bridges and buildings. We managed to get it so high👍🏽

The children had great fun visiting P1 this week, they took part in some fun activities and met some of the primary 1 teachers😊

We have recently refreshed our eating area to accommodate our growing numbers and would love to add a slice of home to our snack/lunch/high tea area. We would be looking to add pictures of the children eating with their families, enjoying their favourite foods at home or maybe on holiday! Whatever you prefer.

If you’d like to add to this could you please bring in your picture some time next week.