Story Time
In our literacy adult Led this week, we have looked closely at one of our treasure books - We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We loved sitting down and listening to the story, we could even join in with familiar words/phrases in the book.
We have been focusing on 2 features of a book - The title and…
Remembrance Day
Today we took part in a minutes silence to show our respect to remembrance day. We discussed using the Cbeebies video what remembrance day is and why we dedicate a day to remember.
The children showed great respect and understanding of the story we shared. We discussed the emotions through…
Phonics - Body Percussion
We have been exploring different ways to make sounds with our bodies! We cam up with tapping, stomping, clapping, patting and much more!
We have loved making the sounds together and exploring loud, quiet, fast and slow.
We then used a steady beat to create movement to the music, we used…
Role play - Whatever Next!
We have been looking at the story Whatever Next! and today we used masks and props to role play different parts of the story. We pretended to be baby bear getting ready for his trip to the moon, baby bear in his rocket ship, baby bear and owl having a picnic on the moon and then mother bear…
Fine Motor - Tracing
We have been working very hard on our pencil grips and finding out how to get the best control of the pencil. We all have a dominate hand and Miss Mayer modelled how to hold the pencil correctly. We then practised tracing over different lines with increasing control.
We used the felt tips and…
Story Time
The children have listened to 'The Colour Monster' this week as we have been learning all about our emotions. We sat in small groups for a short period of time listening to the story. At the end of the story we took part in discussions around the books, answering a range of questions. The children…
All About Zero
This week we have started to learn about numbers, we started with the number 0. The children have been brilliant at recognising the numeral and understanding the value.
We began with reading a story by Kathryn Otoshi called 'Zero'. We then looked at zero represented in the environment and went…
Freeze-frame fun
Today we had lots of fun role playing and freeze framing our new story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children all got into role and thought about the actions and behaviours of each of they characters.