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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.
Tractor and trailer
Posted on September 28, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Outside construction started with building a tractor and trailer then developed into a bus and wherever their imagination took them.
Autumn Storms
Posted on September 27, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Storm Agnes arrived perfectly for our PE lesson today. The children made kites and took them for a good run around the field. Amazing fun!
Matching in Maths
Posted on September 27, 2023 | By soyarzabal
In maths we are able to match by size, colour or objects. We enjoyed matching animal pictures during carpet time.
Amazing Autumn
Posted on September 26, 2023 | By soyarzabal
We have introduced some Autumn resources and colours to different areas of continuous provision which has been inspired by the children’s interest in this season. The photos show our playdough hedgehog making, using different utensils to paint leaves and our Curiosity Cube.
Our trip to the new library
Posted on September 23, 2023 | By soyarzabal | 3 responses
We went to the new library in Bideford. We caught the 319 in. Katie read us some stories. We had a look around then visited the park for lunch. We had a fantastic time!
Thaumatrope toy
Posted on September 21, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Today we made a toy from the past. We span the two pieces of string and when we let go the bird went in the cage.
Healthy eating
Posted on September 21, 2023 | By soyarzabal
As part of our topic ‘all about me’ we had the Asda man into school today to visit Cranford class and Sunflowers. We got to taste different fruits and learnt that we must eat 7 pieces of fruit and veg a day.
Our Autumn walk
Posted on September 18, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Today we went on an Autumn walk around ‘muddy lane’. We saw sheep grazing, cows a very long way away, a tractor cutting a hedge, a tractor going down the road, lots and lots of muddy puddles and lots of signs of Autumn. The best part was that the sun shone for us!
Patterns, patterns, patterns
Posted on September 14, 2023 | By soyarzabal
Yesterday as part of our maths we needed to copy a pattern and then have a go at making our own.