Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

We have enjoyed pumpkin painting! 

Today we have hammering gold tees into pumpkins. We did this very safely and it’s great for our fine motor skills! 

We had a super autumn festival this morning! We sang songs, made autumn crowns, explored autumn jelly and drank hot chocolate!

Today nursery worked as part of a team to draw a pumpkin patch! 

We had a super trip to the imagination station. We played beautifully as a whole class team and explored becoming the professions we want to be when we grow up!

We are learning about oral hygiene this week! We have all been practicing brushing the teeth and also trying foods good for our teeth. We have used vocabulary like cavity, saliva, fluoride and calcium. 

Nursery have been learning and practicing counting forwards and backwards using number rhymes. They also used their fingers to represent amounts! Well done nursery! 

Reception have been learning about sorting! We have been sorting into one criteria and more! There has been lots of super discussion, problem solving, matching and talking about similarities and differences. 

We read my five senses and talked about our senses together! We created face biscuits using all of our senses. We used touch and described the ingredients as sticky and smooth. We used smell and lots of things smelt sweet. We listened to instructions and the foil rustling. We looked at our…

Nursery have been working on developing their fine motor skills! We have been pinching the pegs and placing them into the peg boards. We talked about the colours and patterns we created. 

We have been using a variety of materials for example; cotton reels, logs, pine cones and lids to create faces! 

The Reception children have settled into school beautifully. They have been enjoying lots of learning through play, building friendships and settling into school routines. There has been some amazing creativity, teamwork, sharing and learning of new skills already!

Here are a few photos of our week so far.