This week we have enjoyed the topic of Autumn.
Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities, have been:

• We went for an Autumn walk around the village
• Handprint Autumn animal paintings
• Autumn leaf people pictures
• Listening and attention games
• Making Autumn wreaths
• Looking at our name cards and logos
• Autumn peg matching game for phonics
• Lots on drawing, mark making and emergent writing on wipe boards
• Autumn counting with our natural objects
• Making nature pictures
• Enjoying an Autumn yoga session
  
  

We have been spending time with our key children noting their knowledge and also their speech and language skills in order to help plan and progress their development.

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

We also throughout the week:

• Built train tracks
• Matched numbers to our sensory number blocks
• Enjoyed using the bikes and scooters outside
• Completed lots of puzzles
• 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
• Played lotto games
• Had lots of free craft including painting and creating some lovely artwork
• Enjoyed lots of running games and ball games in the garden, along with counting games and action songs.
• We listened to lots of stories and looked at books
• Enjoyed lots of fun phonological activities
  

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to speech and language as well as sensory activity ideas.
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

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