This week we have had a fun week with lots of sports activites as well as:

• reading lots of stories and in particular enjoying 'the tiger who came to tea'
• lots of role playing in our doctors area
• developing our phonic sounds with fun sound games
• following the childrens interests to complete giant floor puzzles, learn about hospitals and playing games such as hide and seek
• outside the children have used our sports box to create an obstacle course and also do activities such as egg and spoon races, jumping in sacks, running around cones and playing parachute games
• matched patterns in order to sort a group of pictures
• circle times have included spotting the missing object out of a group, playing musical instruments, singing nursery rhymes, talking about hospitals and people who make us better, sorting pictures into different pronouns, also sorting pictures of things at come into different categories such as 'things we eat/wear/play with etc. These always begin with the 'hello' song and an introduction to the day of the week
• the children have continued to enjoy ring games and singing
• looking at pictures of groups of objects and noting which have more or less
• counting illustrations and looking at number formation with rhymes and mark making
• lots of phonic activities including throwing a ball and naming a picture that they can see on it and then recognising and sounding out the initial letter sound
• continuing to enjoy listening CD games such as listening for animal noises or environmental sounds
• there has been a lot of construction this week with giant wooden blocks
• the art area has continued to be busy with lots of gluing, painting, cutting and crafting, in particular this week drawing and creating glittery space pictures have been popular
  

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. You are welcome to ask your key person for feedback at any time and book a time to have a meeting for feedback on how your child is progressing.
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend. Best wishes, Julia, Grace, Sharon, Lisa, Hannah, Jackie and Amy