Autumn 2 Term 2024:

Children In Need Day:

Today we have taken part in different activities to explore Children in Need. Ants, Caterpillars and Bumblebees have talked about what Children in Need means and why we raise money for those disadvantaged to us.

  

Welcome back to Autumn term 2. Our new topic is ‘Animals’. Over the next few weeks we will be learning about where animals live, what they eat, what they look like and the different sounds they make.

This week we have been investigating what some animals look like by making footprints in the paint and using magnifying glasses to look at the patterns on their skin/fur. The children have sorted the animals into big and small groups and have had a go at drawing their own animals.

We have had a fabulous first week back and we look forward to celebrating nursery rhyme week next week.

 

Forest Schools Commences: 

The children in Bumblebees and Caterpillars had a fantastic first session at forest schools.

They all went on a nature hunt and explored the outside area. The children had the chance to climb trees, use the tree swing and access the rope ladder with support from our Forest School Lead.

We can not wait to see what activities they get up to over the upcoming weeks!

 

W/C: Monday 11th November:

This week we are celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week; where we look a new nursery rhyme every day.

Today we have explored different activities about 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.'

Ants children have decorated their own twinkly stars, used their fine motor skills to find the stars in the sand and matched their star numbers.

Bumblebees and Caterpillars have made starry night pictures using marbles and rolling them in a tray, cut out big and small stars and sorted them; and enjoyed singing the song in group time.

 

Todays nursery rhyme is Old McDonald had a Farm for World Nursery Rhyme Week.

Today the children in Ants class have explored the sensory tray with animals and materials that you might find on the farm. They have solved puzzles by adding the missing shapes to their farm animals and created their own animal masks.

In Caterpillars and Bumblebees the children have painted their own farm animals and created a shelter for their animals using blocks. They have also made masks to become a farm animal and played farm yard bingo!

The children have enjoyed being different farm animals today, we can not wait to see tomorrow's Nursery Rhyme!

 

Autumn 1 Term 2024:

October:

Our topic last week in Ants class was “People Who Help Us.” We have taken part in a variety of activities to support our learning through this topic.

We have helped the postman deliver his mail by matching the numerals on his mail to the matching post-box. Children have made their own police car using collaging and helped the dentist to clean our teeth by using our fine motor skills with a toothbrush. Ants have also been looking after poorly babies in the hospital.

The children have enjoyed the activities and have been fully engaged. We look forward to seeing what the children get up to for our topic this week “Halloween.”

Pre-School People Who Help

In Bumblebees this week we have looked at matching numbers in maths.

We have looked at a range of maps and shared a picture atlas as a group. We have looked at how to look after and wash the babies using sponges to make them clean.

The children have used a range of construction to make objects they might find on their nature walks and use their senses to imagine what it smells, looks and feels like.

Pre-School Maths Skills

This week in Ants class w have been developing our fine motor skills. The children have been involved in a variety of activities to help to strengthen their hand and finger muscles to help with their pencil control at a later stage.

These activities include making marks in the sand with sticks, exploring through Autumn accessories using touch and using pipettes and empty water bottles to squirt water into the tray.

Pre-School Fine Motor Skills

September:

This week we have been outside exploring our Autumn environment. Children have explored our natural puzzles and used their understanding of shapes from last week to recognise others in the outdoor environment.

We have shared stories as a group and children have sang the “story time” song to each other before looking through different texts. Caterpillars and Bumblebees children have used their mark making skills to create different objects on the blackboard and explored our mud kitchen. The children have used their senses to investigate the different smells and made ‘potions’ and ‘soups’ in the mud kitchen.

Pre-School Environment

A big welcome back to all new and existing children and their families to our Pre-School. This term we are exploring the topic "Me and My Community."

The children have explored their new classrooms and started to form positive relationships with staff and other children within their groups.

We have explored the creative station and made Autumn pictures using autumnal colours with our dabbers and our fingers for printing. Our children have used their pincer grip to thread string through our leaves and sat exploring the reading den; sharing stories with our peers. The children have also been experimenting with their mark making, copying shapes and marks using sand, chalk boards and painting wallets.

We are looking forward to seeing what they achieve over the upcoming weeks.

Pre-School Settle In