This half term pirates have taken over our classroom! The children have taken on roles as different pirates and designed their own ship ‘The Black Bloomer’. There have been lots of opportunities for developing language, speaking and listening. In the sand they have been digging for buried treasure and testing to find magnetic and not magnetic materials.
Outdoor Learning
Most of our children love to be learning outdoors and when given the option they often choose to go out. This gives them the opportunity to get messy with the wellies and waterproofs on and complete activities on a larger scale.
Autumn Term in EYFS
The children have been enjoying lots of Autumn and Halloween activities during the first term in Early Years. They have carved pumpkins and chopped vegetables to make pumpkin soup for our snack. Outside the children have been designing and making broomsticks linked to our story ‘Room on the Broom’.
Snack Shop
This week the children have been ‘paying’ for their fruit at our snack shop. They have been thinking of prices for each of the fruits and then counting out pennies to pay. We have seen some lovely mathematical language related to money and lots of working together.
We were in The Northern Echo
For those of you who were unable to get a copy of The Northern Echo yesterday, our school Early Years Reception Classes were on the front page of the First Class supplement. A fantastic photograph!
A day in EYFS
Dough Disco
Squiggle while you Wiggle
Numbers to 20
This half term we have been focusing on recognition of numbers to 20 and being able to place them in order. All of the children have completed a range of activities to help with this.
Billy Goats Gruff
Our topic this half term is ‘Traditional Tales’ and this week we have been reading the story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. We particularly enjoyed acting out the story in the hall, some of the children told the story, others took on the role of different characters and we had a few musicians making the ‘trip trap trip trap’ sound. Well done Class 2, great story telling. They continued this activity by themselves in the class room following this.
