This week our focus has been on Dinosaurs.
Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities, have been:

• Making dinosaur models with play dough
• Matching shadows to their corresponding dinosaur picture
• Walking on our dinosaur numbered footprints and putting the numbers in the correct order
• Enjoying dinosaur movement games
• Playing with our dinosaurs on our small world mat
• Making a stegosaurus with a paper plate
• Making dinosaur head bands
• Making dinosaur footprints with paint
• Making handprint dinosaurs
• Learning about how long ago dinosaurs lived and what the world was like then
• Learning about different dinosaurs
• Learning about the difference between a carnivore, herbivore and omnivore
• Lots of dinosaur stories, songs and rhymes

Most activities are available throughout the weeks for all of the children to enjoy.

We also throughout the week:

• Built dinosaurs with duplo
• Enjoyed water play
• Did a lot of mark making in various forms: water painting, wipe board marking, pencils, pens, tracing patterns
• Enjoyed movement, music and dancing
• Focused on fine motor skill activities such as threading and using tweezers
• Played lots of matching games
• Learnt about different 2d shapes and their properties and created different shapes with them
• Played lotto games and puzzles
• Had lots of free craft including painting and creating some lovely artwork
• There was name writing practice and practice finding and recognising own name
• Also a lot of listening games, songs and rhymes
• Along with counting games and action songs.
• We listened to lots of stories and looked at books
• We counted objects and also matched numerals to quantity
• Enjoyed lots of fun phonological activities
  

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our curriculum.
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
Dancing 01
Dancing 02
Performing 01
Performing 02
Dinosaurs 01
Dinosaurs 02
Word Mat and Rhyme Sheet 01
Word Mat and Rhyme Sheet 02