Class 5 were amazed to discover that technology isn’t just about computers and electrical items! They learnt that technology is anything that is ‘man made’ and is something that can ‘help us.’ Here are just some of the pictures of what they found in our classroom that are in fact Read more…
Children in class 5 have been looking at all the different ways we can sort objects into different groups. We looked at colour, size, shapes, animals transport and more! children worked individually and as a team to place them into the correct groups.
Children have used whiteboards and pens, pencils, felts, pom-poms and paint to create those early writing marks and movements, following lines and patterns to help concentration and develop the control of mark making tools.
Chopping fruit and and veg is a fun way for children to develop their frine motor skills and their hand eye coordination. This helps their concentration also and develops the muscles children use in early writing.
We have been looking at shapes and colours in nursery. We have drawn around shapes to create our houses, hammered nails and shapes to create pictures, made shape and colour trees and explored colours in the colour/counting bears.
Children have made underpants toast! From reading our story one of our activities was making toast decorticated with food colouring and toasting it before enjoying the toast! The children loved this activity.
Children have been exploring Autumnal objects this week, creating pictures from leaves they collected and enjoyed leaf printing. We looked at colours and patterns and spoke about the weather in autumn. We have also explored the story ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ looking at colours and size, children are really enjoying the Read more…
Children have had a fun week back, making friends and exploring their environment. We have been learning lots about sharing and looking after our room and toys. What a lovely week meeting new children and welcoming some children for their second year with us. All children are ready for Read more…
This week children are starting our read write inc phonics programme. The last two weeks we have learnt the pictures that go with the letter sound only. Today we have started to learn the letter sound too and some children chose to practise writing the sound on the white boards. Read more…
We have been learning about weight in maths and estimating which item we thought would be the heaviest and the lightest. The children were very good at this and guessed most of them correctly.