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Friday 22nd September 2017

September 22, 2017 Mrs Gregg-Masterton 1 Comment

An outside, inside, outside day!

The sand was still wet and sticky.

We found a wiggly worm and put it in the bug hotel.

Talking about what the vehicle is and where it is going.

Using something new to make pictures.

Discussing who lives in the castle.

Making a friend for Elmer.

An Elmer story at snack time.

Playing out instruments outside, even a little bit of marching too.

Sharing the lego and taking turns.

Measuring and filling.

Lots of running in the wind.

Playing number games with the parachute. How many times can we go around? Using a die to count how many balls to put on the chute and try to keep up.

Matching the pieces to make a man from the picture.

More building.

A pirate and a spiderman pirate shared the wheel.

Lots of hand eye coordination being used.

Pirate burgers!

“It’s pink juice.”

Weaving the strings.

Monday 18th September 2017

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Today has been a day of proil and clatch! And lots of other thing too.

Teamwork building the tower.

“I want pink and bubbles in da water tray.”

Shaving foam.

We added some food colouring and mixed it all up.

“Look at my names.”

It’s bigger as me!” Everyone helped to build the tower. It fell over when it got too high but we built it up again.

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“Whar’s da step? I need the be higher.”

Counting the dots on the fish.

We wanted all of the emergency vehicles out at the same time.

“I want tae work we proilly stuff.”

Everyone wanted to decorate a box so we had to move to a bigger table.

Joey wanted his library book about dinosaurs read at snack time. Everyone enjoyed the story.

We ran around the school in the rain to use up some of our energy.

Friday 15th September

September 15, 2017 Mrs Gregg-Masterton 1 Comment

A noisy, busy day today.

“It’s a new Holland.”

We went to Edinburgh and Shetland.

“Yucky goo.”

We found 3 slugs and lots of slaters.

Discussing where the eye should go on Elmer. Up, up, up!

That’s it!

A pet picnic.

We planted up our avocado.

Mixing, filling, pouring and banging.

Dressing up.

Stories and rhymes and puzzles.

Drawing and colouring.

Playing in the fire station.

Cleaning the tray after the aqua beads were emptied.

Very noisy learning. We noticed if we banged the table the rice moved. We moved it right into the middle of the table. Someone was watching closely, “it’s jumping.”

Lots of taking turns and sharing to finish off our morning.

Thursday 7th September

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Baking day.

Today we fixed the house up.

Made a bonfire in the boat to keep us warm.

“Look at the bumpy wall” in our accidental picture.

We took pictures of each other.

Counting, measuring, chopping and mixing.

Taking turns.

To make a fruit crumble.

We chose a bike or tractor and got out the filling station.

The farmers need Macdonalds for snack.

We found a turtle in the gym hall. “If you wobble it moves”.

Filling up the trailer with muck to spread on the fields.

Playing with our new dough and singing songs.

Next the trailer got filled with flowers and grass for the cows and horses.

Playing with the turtle and singing Tiny Tim.

Building a wall to fit the space. Lots of measuring talk.

“I’m taking the flowers to the field.”

Collecting leaves from the garden. See what we do with them soon.

Who is in the ark?

There was even time for a puzzle.

Wednesday 6th September 2017

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We made more music.

We did salt painting. It was great fun and we learned more about colour mixing. We used food colouring in droppers to mix the colours. “Look, I’ve made orange.”

The workmen are going to make a new playground.

We listened to “5 little ducks” on the iPad then sang the song with our own set of ducks.

“I am the forklift!”

“We need a rope to stop the rock from getting away.”

We have changed our baking day for this week, so we “baked” some bubble dough.

The recipe:

We did calendar today. We learned about the day, the date, month, season and weather.

“I’ll set out the cones. You count them.” We learned that 6 and 1 more makes 7.

We worked together to make the tractor jigsaw.

We took the bikes out at the end of the session because the sun came out.

Thursday 31st August 2017

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A busy morning.

We put some water beads in the water tray. They got bigger and bigger and bigger!

We used craft sticks and cellophane to make shapes.

Making colour choices.

Snap, snap, snapping!

Making courses with cones.

The beads got bigger!

“They feel slimey.”

Deciding which way to go on the bikes.

Our craft on the light box.

We had snack with the older children and played outside with them.

Catching fish.

Following instructions to brush our teeth.

Singing some rhymes and learning the actions.

Wednesday 30th August

August 30, 2017 Mrs Gregg-Masterton 1 Comment

Lots of imaginative play today.

The boat went into the boat shed to be fixed. We used the rope to tow it. Later we made swimming pools, a paddling pool, burgers and a combine harvester.

We played music to help the builders.

We measured with spoons and scoops.

The door stickers move so we changed some of the diggers.

We picked some beans to put into our stir fry snack.

Working out how to get the beans out was tricky. Next we counted how many beans we had. Then we talked about what the pod feels like.

The snack helpers washed and peeled.

Then we chopped our vegetables.

Time to cook.

The noodles were so long and wiggly. We looked at the noodles and talked about the change from hard to soft.

There was lots of outdoor play today. Bubble blowing, catching and stamping too.

Tuesday 29th August 2017

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We were very busy today!

Lotti had asked for the garage and cars and we all played with it today.

It was really windy and we played outside. We ran and played on the pirate ship, we drew on the blackboards and climbed on the climbing frame. We even tried flying our kite.

We emptied the washing machine and hung up the washing.

We printed pictueres using tatties.

We mixed paints in a bag to make new colours.

The vehicles were sorted by type today instead of by colour.

We played with Silly Soap.

We loved the Octons and Oliver asked if they could go on the interest table. We also swapped the number jigsaw for the Ten in a Bed Teddies. We used the teddies to count with and recognise numbers.