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Christmas Party
Posted on December 19, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers and Cranford Class enjoyed a fun, Christmas party with games, dancing, balloons and party food. Happy Christmas everyone!🎈 ,
Christmas Countdown
Posted on December 14, 2023 | By soyarzabal
The Elf loved admiring the artwork Sunflowers had completed on our classroom display board. This is the art they undertook when they studied circles in the style of Kandinsky.
PE With Apparatus
Posted on November 30, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers had an enjoyable PE session using the apparatus. After listening carefully to instructions, they took it in turns to develop their movement by balancing, jumping, crawling and climbing. Sunflowers had the challenge of thinking of different ways to move over and under the benches. All these activities help develop their gross motor skills.
Magnificent Mud Kitchen
Posted on November 29, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers and Cranford Class are loving the new mud kitchen. This kitchen provides a messy, sensory experience allowing the children to explore different textures and materials whilst having fun. The mud kitchen supports communication and language development as the children talk to each other and discuss what they are doing. It also encourages imaginative role […]
Kipper’s Birthday
Posted on November 22, 2023 | By soyarzabal
We have enjoyed listening to this story book and answering questions about the storyline and characters. We then discussed what we needed for a birthday party and had fun helping to plan our own party for Kipper.
Children In Need
Posted on November 17, 2023 | By soyarzabal
For Children in Need we have enjoyed some SPOTacular activities in continuous provision which all help us develop our fine and gross motor skills.
Size, Mass and Capacity
Posted on November 15, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers have been learning that objects can be compared and ordered according to size. We have encouraged the use of the language of size such as big and little, small and large to describe a range of objects. We have also used more specific language such as tall, long and short.
Remembrance
Posted on November 9, 2023 | By soyarzabal
We have talked about and watched a short, animated film to help us apppreciate the significance of wearing a poppy. This has helped us to understand the world and make links to our history. We have practised being silent for two minutes ready for 11 o’clock on the 11th November to show respect for those […]
Colourful Continuous Provision
Posted on November 9, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Bonfire night and Diwali has produced colourful and sparkly expressive art activities to enjoy. These activities have also meant we can use our imagination and develop our fine motor skills.
Play to Learn
Posted on November 7, 2023 | By soyarzabal
A lot of imagination has been used at our loose parts table enabling the children to arrange and rearrange small parts to create their own designs. Fine motor skills are developed and strengthened when children grasp and pick up small objects. In our construction area we have been very creative. We have used our imagination […]
Room on the Broom
Posted on November 6, 2023 | By soyarzabal
We enjoy listening to Room on the Broom, making comments and answering questions about the story and characters. We can repeat words and phrases and thereby learn new vocabulary.
More mud
Posted on October 30, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Forest School at Burford woods
Posted on October 30, 2023 | By soyarzabal
A muddy day in the woods. We all had fun!
Mud glorious mud!
Posted on October 30, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Happy Halloween
Posted on October 18, 2023 | By soyarzabal
We have enjoyed lots of Halloween themed activities in continuous provision this week. Whilst having fun, the activities help us develop our fine motor skills, imagination and communication.
Great Gravel Pit
Posted on October 12, 2023 | By soyarzabal
The EYFS team are always looking for ways to enhance our continuous provision areas. This week we added natural loose parts to our small world construction site. Sunflowers and Cranford had great fun using wooden planks, pebbles and logs to extend their play by building roads, bridges and buildings. The gravel pit inspired creativity, storytelling […]
Fruit patterns
Posted on October 11, 2023 | By soyarzabal
As part of our maths this week we have been making patterns. We used our school fruit to make a simple repeating 2 pattern.
Autumnal Activities
Posted on October 9, 2023 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision we have been busy playing to learn with fun autumnal activities. When using a rolling pin, we like to see the leaf prints left in the play dough. This activity is good for our gross motor skills.
Making Music
Posted on October 5, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Every week Sunflowers have a music lesson and we follow the Charanga Music Programme. We sing along to the songs and beat, shake or tap our instrument in time with the music. We get the opportunity to experiment with a range of instruments and have lots of fun.
SCARF- All about me.
Posted on September 28, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Helen came into school to talk to Cranford all about me, the children learned about body parts, looking after ourselves and having help from our adults.