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Welcome to this week’s blog post. This week in Class 1 the children have shown an interest in the sand, we made a sandpit in the classroom and the children used animals, cars and pots in there.  They also created short stories.  The children wanted to make the colour pink, we experimented to find out how to make the colour.  The children showed interest in camping and we created a tent to support their play. This week in Class 2 we have been exploring Diwali.  The children watched short clips introducing them to the festival and we asked them what they would like to do.  Following on from this they have made Diva lamps from salt dough and vegetable curry for snack.  We also had some scarves for them to dress up in. We have used golf tees to hammer into pumpkins and lots of the children have told us about fireworks and Halloween! The children have shown interest in role play involving tickets, we had a cinema and a bus station.  This invo...

Welcome to this week’s blog post. This week in Class 1 the children have shown an interest in the musical instruments and explored how different instruments sound.  They then went on to create a drum using empty tubes and tubs.  To support the children's current interest in the bear hunt story, we created a small world tray of the story.  The children used this to recreate the story and added their own props to extend their play.  in the garden the children showed an interest in creating a car wash, we provided them with warm soapy water and they washed the cars. This week in Class 2 the children continued with their interest in Doctors and made 'medicines' with water, soap, shaving foam and custard powder.  We moved this activity into the garden on Wednesday and the children contonued to experiment outside.  This week we have started phase 1 of the letters and sounds programme and took the children on a listening walk.  For more information pl...

Welcome to this week’s blog post. This week in Class 1 the children have continued their interest in the ‘Bear hunt’ story, the children have started to retell the story using the pictures as a prompt.   We provided the children with materials to work together to create a den and in the garden the children made a river using the water from a puddle, they then had lots of fun jumping in it!   In the role play area, the children discovered that when they squeezed an orange juice came out and they pretended to drink this.   We extended this interest with juicers and oranges for the children to make their own orange juice to drink.   This week in Class 2 the children have shown an interest in the supertato stories, we noticed that the conkers were a similar shape to the evil peas so we painted some green.   When the peas had dried the children added eyes, capes and masks!   We continued making characters from the Supertato stories using tomatoes, corn ...

Welcome to this weeks blog post.  This week in Class 1 the children have explored cornflour and water. when mixed together it creates gloop.  The children wanted to add shaving foam, cinnamon and conditioner, this creates a thicker texture.  The children continued to show interest in blowing bubbles.  We have been outside looking under the logs, we found worms and found out about where they live and what they eat.  The fire engines continue to be popular, the children are beginning to incorporate this into their role play. This week in Class 2 the children have explored the shark in the park story, we provided small world items for them to extend this.   On Tuesday t he pirates had visited Forest School again and left the children autumn treasure hunts to complete.   The children used egg boxes to collect their items and decorated the boxes with pictures from the treasure hunt.   We have enjoyed looking at the items the children have collec...

Welcome to this weeks blog post.  This week in Class 1 the children have explored the lavender rice and the concepts if full and empty.  In the mud kitchen the children have created 'hot chocolate, pasta and cakes'.  We found a worm in the garden and worked together to make it a home.  The children have shown an interest in the baby dolls, we have created a bed for the babies and added some more accessories for the children to explore this further.   This week in Class 2 the children have been chopping vegetables to make vegetable soup, they then tried some for snack.  On Tuesday the pirates had left us another letter and some items for the children to make bird feeders.  On Wednesday we went on an Autumn walk on the school field and the children found lots of leaves, conkers and pine cones.  Please find a bag in your child's tray for you to take on an Autumn walk with them, we look forward to seeing what you find!  We have continued lear...

Welcome to this weeks blog post.  This week in Class 1 the children have been taking their own pictures with a real camera.  They have made marks with paint using a squirty bottle and created a fire engine from the blocks.  The children have made their own playdough and explored shaving foam with ice. This week in Class 2 we made dinosaurs out of junk modelling.  We went to a very wet forest school and Tuesday and we were so excited to find a letter and treasure from the pirates, we left them one in return!  The children also helped to make the bug hotel, thank you for all the items you brought in for this.  We made gingerbread men and some of the children were able to decorate them.  The children have shown a keen interest in the bear hunt story and wrote to the bear, today the bear sent them a parcel and asked the children to make a cave so they did!  Next week we will be making soup.  We are looking for lots of real items for our role pl...

Welcome to this weeks blog post.  This week in Class 1 the children made cakes with playdough and mud, they then made some real cakes!  The children explored a variety of sensory materials such as shaving foam, gloop and cloud dough.  We had a big box delivered, the children have been exploring ways to get into the box and used scissors to make holes in it.  This week the children made lots of marks with paint and pencils. This week in Class 2 the children have been making 'chocolate soup' by melting chocolate.  They then dipped some fruit in it to try, we had lots of conversations around how we could melt the chocolate!  On Tuesday we went to Forest School, we found treasure and thought that the pirates had left it!  We wrote the pirates a letter and made them a treasure map, we left it at Forest School for them to find.  Some of the children showed interest in the Gingerbread man story, we will be making some next week.  The class made up...