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Welcome to this week’s blog post. This week in Class 1 the children have shown an interest in the emergency services, they set up their own role play and discussed seeing the fire engines coming out of the fire station. We have introduced the children to helicopter stories this week, we have started by giving the children a few examples and encouraging them to act out the parts on the stage.  Next week we will be asking the children to make up their own stories.   In the role play kitchen the children have been talking about making cakes so we provided them with ingredients and scales for them to explore the concept of making cakes.   Next week we will be going to Forest School on Monday. This week in Class 2 we went to the school hall for music and movement on Monday, the children participated in listening and action games. On Tuesday we were delighted to have one of the children's Grandparent on us for the afternoon and read stories to the childre...

Welcome to this week’s blog post. This week in Class 1 we have had water trays indoors, this has been very popular with the children and we have provided a variety of different sized tubes, jugs and bowls to support the children with tipping and pouring.  We have explored the concepts of full and empty. We went to Forest School on Tuesday and dug for treasure.  The children also used binoculars to help them look more closely at the worms. In the class room the children have used big blocks to create enclosures for the small world animals and people. This half term we have introduced cause and effect items including wind up fans, we have had fun exploring how to make them work.  This also helps to build up the muscles in the children's hands.   This week in Class 2 we went to the school hall for music and movement on Monday, all the children were amazing at trying to get their own shoes and socks off and on again.   This week the childre...