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Christmas in EYFS 🎄

It’s beginning to look like Christmas in continuous provision:- We have enjoyed using different utensils to create a Christmas tree We used our imagination at the small world Christmas table.🎅

Story dough one snowy night

In story dough this week our story is One Snowy Night. The children used the play dough to roll snowballs using their fine motor skills. We then made animal footprints in the dough using the animals from the story, learning about patterns and imaginative play. We also retold the story during our story dough.

Story dough The Jolly Christmas Postman

This week in story dough we have been looking at the Jolly Christmas Postman. We used our Postman Pat character and a post van for imaginative play. We then rolled out the dough using our gross motor skills and made little parcels and letters using our fine motor skills. We made a road out of […]

Love of Reading : All Through the Night (1)

We have discussed and acted out some of the action words from this book:- We pretended we were in bed. We then talked about the people who were going to work as night came; nurses, doctors, cleaners, delivery drivers and police officers.

The Jolly Christmas Postman

In continuous provision, we have had great fun in our role play area at the Jolly Post Office writing letters, addressing envelopes, stamping, weighing and posting. We enjoyed using our gross motor skills to scoop Christmas puddings out of the water tray.

Story dough Stick Man

In story dough last week our story was Stick Man. We had to roll and pinch the dough using our fine motor skills to make a stick man and his family. We then named the parts of the stick man such as arms, legs, eyes etc. We also helped retell the story as we were […]

Love of Reading Zibbo’s party

We finished our current book AMAZiNG with a party as this was one of Zibbo’s favourite things …….. we hope he liked it .

Stickman : Continuous Provision

We enjoyed listening to the story of Stickman and then exploring the activities set up in continuous provision. In the messy, maths tray we had the challenge of using sticks to form numbers. We also had fun in outside continuous provision

Continuous provision ~ Diwali

This week in continuous provision we learned about Diwali. We made Diva lamps out of clay, painted Rangoli patterns and decorated them with sequins and glitter for the festival of light. We have enjoyed Diwali celebrations around the dinner table in our role play area whilst putting our best dressing up on! We have also […]

Story dough ~ Diwali

This week in story dough we have been making diva lamps, we rolled out blue and yellow dough, and created lamp shapes. We then added small rolled up,balls of dough and sequins to decorate. We learned how to be creative, how to use our gross and fine motor skills and even learned some new vocabulary […]

The Love of Reading AMAZING

This week we decided Zibbo needed a friend to play with other than the little boy who owns him.

Children in Need

Today our children joined the rest of the school with all the fun activities they organised Thank you Ashmansworthy for all your help.

Love of Reading

Amazing This week we looked at the book and its characters mainly if dragons were real.? We were all very surprised !

Story dough ~ Remembrance

This week in story dough we talked about remembrance. We made poppies out of red and black play doh. We talked about the soldiers, we say thank you for their kindness and peace. For being so brave and giving us our freedom.

Remembrance

This week we have been learning about poppies and remembrance and what our armed forces have done and continue to do for us all.

Fireworks in Continuous Provision

We have enjoyed the firework themed activities set up in continuous provision for us to create our own fireworks using different media. It was fun thinking of firework noises as we created; whizz, crackle and pop.

DT Structures

We have had great fun building structures over the last two weeks as part of our design technology and understanding the world, here they are ….

Story dough ~ fireworks

In story dough this week we have been making fireworks out of black play dough (for night sky) and adding glitter, sequins, straws, pipe cleaners and stars. We have been learning new vocabulary such as zoom, pop, sparkle, whiz, bang, whoosh and talking about the loud noises that fireworks make. We are also building our […]

Playing to Learn

We have enjoyed our time in continuous provision with our friends. It was fun playing together with the balls and guttering. This activity helped our hand/eye coordination and communication skills.

Love of Reading : Where’s Lenny? (2)

Sunflowers decided they would like to create their own fish tank for Gordon the goldfish and his friends. In order to connect to this book, we blew our own bubbles and printed bubbles. We are good at making a ‘bubbling’ noise like Gordon the Goldfish

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