This week the children have continued to be tenacious and jovial in their play. Activities have included:

• listening to our story of the week, the tiger who came to tea, and using the linked items on the literacy shelf which included stick puppets, a toy tiger, story sequencing cards, a matching game, invitations the children could write for a tea party and a word mat.
• learning about the advent of Christmas, and using our around the world advent calendar at circle time to learn about people in different countries.
• lots of listening games, dancing to Christmas music and singing
• the children have been listening to lots of Christmas stories
• learning about our shape of the week, a triangle. We have drawn it, named it and found it in the environment as well as played a few other shape games
• learning about recycling and sorting objects to the correct bin using an interactive game
• practicing recognising our letter of the week: t. Copying it, finding pictures with the initial letter sound. Singing the jolly phonics song and spotting it in the environment are a few ways we have been learning the weekly letter
• continuing to make tea in our role play tea shop area
• learning our number of the week: 3
• making Christmas gifts for our families
• being very creative at the art table

As usual the weekly blog represents a snapshot of what most of the children participate in during the week. Please speak to your childs key person if you would like to have further information about your childs interests and progress.

NOTICE: A reminder it is our film night on Monday the 16th of December at the primary school and also our end of term Christmas party from 1pm on Thursday the 19th of December.

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes, Julia, Grace, Sharon, Lisa, Jackie and Amy