This week we have focused on the story The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities:

• enjoying investigating a gruffalo sensory tuff tray
• developing fine motor skills by pegging pegs/spikes onto hedgehogs
• learning about the life cycle of an oak tree and sticking pictures of the life cycle of an oak tree in order
• role playing in our coffee shop as we have been talking about warm drinks
• lots of mark making in various forms: water painting, wipe board marking, pencils, pens, tracing patterns and much more
• create leaf rubbing pictures
• creating repeating patterns with natural objects and guessing the next object in repeating pattern pictures
• investigating a woodland tuff tray
• making pictures for our woodland display board
• painting with pine cones
• matching shapes and naming them with our shape owls
• matching numerals to picture dots with a woodland theme
• lots of listening games, songs and rhymes
• making binoculars and going on a bird hunt
• lots of dressing up fun
• role playing going on a gruffalo hunt
• playing guessing games and phonological games
• making up stories with soft toys
• lots of puzzles and lotto games
• investigating magnets in leaves and finding letters and numbers
• sensory activities including textured floor circles that the children can walk on and describe
• finding our names in different places
• making owls on toast
• learning about mindfulness and doing some breathing activities
• going on a walk to the village church

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our topic.
For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.
Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam

Home Learning Activities
Forest and Woodland 01 and Forest and Woodland 02