Category: News

This week we are celebrating The Lunar New Year! Your help with food, decorations or story telling is welcomed and appreciated.

• In the home corner, we are cooking and eating in a Chinese restaurant
• At the craft table, we are making dragons and lanterns
• In the food technology, we are cooking Chinese rice noodles
• In the Maths, we are using dough mats with numbers
• The letter and sound of the week is “Ll”

This week we are all excited about Winter!

• The home corner will be set for Winter
• In the small world, we are playing with water animals
• In our messy play, we are exploring  ice
• In Maths, we are exploring shapes and patterns
• The letter and sound of the week is “Ff”

This week we are excited to join in with the RSPB bird watch!

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• In Maths, we will be using bird chart.  We will be looking at birds, counting them and trying to classify them following the RSPB bird watch. We will be watching videos of live cameras.
•  At the home corner, we are playing hairdressers
• In the small world, we are playing with the big cars
• In the construction area, we are using the big building blocks
• In our messy play, we will be playing with soil
• The letter and sound of the week is “Mm”

This week, we are excited about Fireworks and Bonfire Night!

• At the Craft Table, we are making our own fireworks displays
• In the Small World area, we are building a train track
• In the Home Corner, we are doctors and carers
• In Maths, we are exploring shapes and patterns
• The letter and sound of the week is “Kk”

This week, we are becoming little astronauts!

• In the Small World area, we are going into space
• At the Craft Table, we are making our own planets and telescopes
• The Home Corner will be a little town (with its very own space centre perhaps!)
• The letter and sound of the week is “Nn” again. The children are reminded that they can bring in items from home beginning with this sound, to share at Show and Tell

This week is half term, and we wish all our families a happy break!

This week, we are learning about healthy eating and where our food comes from!

• The Home Corner is being turned into a supermarket
• We are going on an outing to buy fresh vegetables from the market
• In Cooking, we are making a tomato and cucumber salad
• We are also growing our very own cress!
• At the Craft Table, the theme is healthy eating
• The letter and sound of the week is “Nn”

• In the Home Corner, we are having adventures on the climbing frame
• In the Construction Zone, we are building a marble run
• In Maths, we are counting, classifying and learning to recognise numbers
• In the Small World area, the dinosaurs are out
• The letter and sound of the week is “Pp”