Weekly Blog: 24th January 2020
This week the children have been focused and have shown lot of critical thinking during their play.
Activities have included:
As usual the weekly blog represents a snapshot of what most of the children participate in during the week. Please speak to your child's key person if you would like to have further information about your child's interests and progress.
NOTICE: We are aiming to recruit new Trustees so that we can have a handover period with our remaining Trustees to help with continuity. We need Trustees in order to remain open and we greatly appreciate our Trustees for their time and commitment. If you are interested in taking on a role now or in the future then please speak to Julia or one of our existing Trustees: Mallika Sumner, Laura Evans, Lisa Steptoe and Catlina Nickson.
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes, Julia, Grace, Sharon, Lisa, Jackie and Amy
Activities have included:
- listening to our story of the week: Elmer and the lost teddy
- lots of mark making and practicing writing names. We are so pleased to see the confidence the children are gaining in mark making and writing their names.
- counting out numbers in a group and focusing on our number of the week:8
- creative junk modelling at the craft table, the children made rockets, combine harvesters and cameras, as well as many other things *the children enjoyed mixing colours with watered down paint and finding out how to mix and make new colours
- learning about our shape of the week, a hexagon
- practicing recognising our letter sound of the week: h.
- learning about Chinese new year, making paper lanterns and creating firework pictures
- practising loud and quiet sounds with the musical instruments and tapping a rhythm to songs
- talking about similarities and differences during circle time and how we are special
- counting blocks and making towers to represent the number of the week, also measuring blocks next to pictures beanstalks *listening to phonic letter sounds and matching them to objects
- we looked at more and less during circle time sorted things into different groups
- lots of listening games, stories and action songs
As usual the weekly blog represents a snapshot of what most of the children participate in during the week. Please speak to your child's key person if you would like to have further information about your child's interests and progress.
NOTICE: We are aiming to recruit new Trustees so that we can have a handover period with our remaining Trustees to help with continuity. We need Trustees in order to remain open and we greatly appreciate our Trustees for their time and commitment. If you are interested in taking on a role now or in the future then please speak to Julia or one of our existing Trustees: Mallika Sumner, Laura Evans, Lisa Steptoe and Catlina Nickson.
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes, Julia, Grace, Sharon, Lisa, Jackie and Amy