This week we have enjoyed learning about healthy eating and people who help us.

This week we focused on music and dance.

• We had a day focusing on country dancing, which involved dressing up, learning dance moves and listening to lots of country music
• The children made paper plate cymbals
• We also had a day focused on classical music and ballet. We learnt dance moves, listened to music and played some music and we also made shakers
• We learnt about pop and dance music and made drums
• We learnt about dances around the world and had a lot of fun dancing and playing listening games to music

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

We also throughout the week:

• Built train tracks
• Played with Barbies
• 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.

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
Being Imaginative and Expressive
Creating with Materials
Arts, crafts and music