A week full of fun activities based on nursery rhymes encouraged the children to develop three key areas. These are: Vocabulary, language, and literacy skills, Numeracy skills, and Social, physical, and emotional skills. They searched for numbers hidden in the sand, played a fishing game, acted out 5 little speckled frogs, held letters up for the […]
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To help convey the notion of Remembrance in a way that would resonate with the children we watched the CBeebies short animation film and made poppies using paper plates, cupcake wrappers, lolly sticks, playdough and more. After scooping out the flesh of a pumpkin the children placed pieces into water to see if they would
From witches brew to fairy potions, the children made wands to mix their fizzing, foaming, bubbling and bewitching magic potions. More spooky fun and Halloween crafts included sorting Halloween shaped pasta, creating ghost pictures, cutting up peppers, a Halloween hunt and releasing trapped spiders. Using paint and tissue paper the children also designed their own
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In preparation for All Hallow’s Eve this week the children participated in lots of Autumn themed crafts. Cutting, sticking and stamping shapes onto paper plates, painting pumpkins & marrows, and hammering golf tees into satsumas, are just some of the activities they engaged in. Fascinated to see all the cones and traffic lights set up
Using shreddies breakfast cereal to represent gravel/bricks/mud/stones/timber for the small world play scenes the children used dumper trucks, diggers and bull dozers to move, spread and pile around the table. Recycled coffee grounds added to playdough mixture inspired the children to create their own dinosaur fossils, dinosaur eggs and wrap dough around dinosaurs to excavate
A collection of amazing autumn leaves all colours and sizes inspired the children to match and sort, make playdough creatures and try leaf rubbing. Delighted to find the green empty one morning, the children climbed over fallen trees, went on a ball hunt, and foraged pears. We received a visit from HSBC who deliver Financial
We certainly got out and about this week. The children had no trouble climbing to the Chapel on Wednesday, and up the footpath to the Hill Fort on Thursday. Making mud pies, apple printing, threading beads and painting were just a few of the other activities the children enjoyed doing this week. Don’t forget ‘The
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All the children have finished their wonderful, life size paintings which are now displayed for everyone to see. At the allotments each child carefully opened a conker shell and were delighted with their find. Painting leaves of different shape and size also proved popular. Spotting a deer in the Old Schoolhouse Tea Rooms garden kept
Recent conditions have been ideal for the start of the mushrooming season. We went on a mushroom hunt around the allotments after last weeks rain encouraged growth of the fungi in the still warm earth. Children enjoyed briskly rubbing the seeds from the head of the sunflowers to put in a pot to dry ready
After a fantastic summer the children were still very much into making ice creams with playdough. The good weather has also given us an abundance of blackberries at the allotments for us to use in various ways over the next couple of weeks. It was all about food this week as we explored ‘The Hungry
