A Super Busy Week-Sports Day and Transition Morning
Wow! What a busy and exciting week we’ve had!
It all started on Tuesday morning with our Early Years Sports Day. Every single child was absolutely amazing! It was so lovely to see their enthusiasm, determination, and fantastic participation throughout the morning. They tackled every race and activity with big smiles and lots of energy – they really did us proud!
A huge thank you to all the families who came along to cheer the children on. Your support made the morning even more special, and it was wonderful to see everyone enjoying the event together.
On Wednesday, while the rest of the school enjoyed their Move Up Morning, our Nursery children had the exciting opportunity to become Reception children for the morning! We went on a little adventure to collect some of the friends who will be joining our class next year, before bringing them back to explore our classroom and outdoor learning environment. It was wonderful to see the children proudly showing their new friends around and helping them feel welcome. Everyone had a fantastic time, and it was a lovely way to begin looking forward to the new school year.
Commotion in the Ocean
“There’s a curious commotion
At the bottom of the ocean
I think we ought to go and take a look…….”
So we did!
We thoroughly enjoyed continuing to read this rhyming story this week. We retold the story using props, helping to develop our language and storytelling skills.
We also created our own sea creatures using a large sheet of paper we had to use our observational skills to draw a range of different sea creatures.
In our maths work, we have been exploring the language of capacity in the sand and water areas. We have been learning to describe containers as full, empty, or half full.
‘My water bottle is full. It’s at the top!’
‘My bucket is empty, it’s all gone on the flowers!’
Help at home: Why not encourage your child to practise this at home by filling different containers with water during bath time or helping in the kitchen?
Starting school: Tips to try at home
Commotion In the Ocean
This week our story was Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae and illustrated by David Wojtowycz.
It is about lots of different sea creatures- from jiggling jellyfish to snapping sharks. We had a great fun reading about the different animals and finding out where some of them live.
‘Penguins live in the cold, in the snow.’
‘I like the octopus because my mummy tickles me too!’
We will continue our learning with this book next week looking at capacity and things being full or empty.
Starting school: Tips to try at home
Mind Mate
This week we had a visit from Mind Mate, they talked about the 6 basic emotions.
We had great vocabulary to talk about them, due to our Feelings First sessions. We could name each of the different feelings felt by Riley in the movie ‘Inside Out’ and we even had some strategies to help her overcome them.
We call the first one starfish breathing and it is something we use a lot in Early Years to help us.
Great job everyone!
What is beautiful about the natural world?
Our new RE topic is all about how we understand and care for the world around us.
This week, we thought about what is beautiful about our natural world.
We went into our playground and used our senses to think about what we can see, hear, touch and smell.
We will be moving on to think about the creation story next week.
The bark is rough – Josh
The flowers are beautiful- Lailah
I can smell the grass -Wyatt
I can hear some birds – Blossom
Help at home: can your child use their senses to think about the nature where you live?
Starting school: Tips to try at home
The Train Ride
We have really enjoyed reading our story this week. When we read it we noticed that the rhythm sounds like a train moving down the tracks.
In the paint we looked at the tracks on the wheels of our toy cars. Some of them had very different patterns on them some stripey, some zig zagged. We used them to create printings. This helped to develop our arm strength for writing.
We will be continuing with this book next week and will be looking at what happens when we send our trains down different types of ramps.
Have a happy and healthy weekend.
Let’s make a splash
