HAPPY Holidays and  stay healthy.   Here are some fun photos of us:  

 sharing snack

playing outside together

 enjoying physical activities 

cheering on the older kids in their sponsored cycle.  

a high visible jacket that looks amazing for the winter nights.  

making and using weights in continuous provision in play.  

And so much more....

We had lots of fun for Maths Scotland Week.  We learnt all about shapes, explored activities of piling ( the most won - with the biggest number) and stacking ( the tallest tower one won for that.. We went outside to categories and sort objects into different groups.  This allowed us to look at shape too.  We talked about items in depth and how we could. put them into different groups. 

We had pegging a cube and a swan to remind us of mrs Two who like to chat and is just like a swan. 

We continue to explore numbers by ordering, estimating them and subitising them in our games of dominoes.  i

We moved our bodies to the triangle dance in PE. It was fun to move and learn together.  

Literacy earning in Play:  

• Block Play - communication, negotiation, imagination, curiosity, role play. and more. 

• Role Play and Imagination increasing vocabulary and conversational skills. 

• Sound searches, songs, sound activities that increase fine motor skills.  

• Drawing, writing and exploring language.  

We have learnt our first four sounds and already started putting these together to make words.  We are continuing to learn our tricky words for our Reading and common words.   Can you spot the words I.  THE.  AND?  

We have been looking at caring for others and showing responsibility.  

We learnt that all children have rights and we should be treated all the same.  We found out that adults have to do what is best for us when they care and look after us. 

We played. and cared for the babies. We talked about pregnancy and how a mum has to take care for their body to help their baby.  We had some real life surgeries to help the babies to be born. Some children looked at all the things they needed to do to care for baby including changing a nappy, washing, feeding them and even burping them with our special sick bib. 

We had great fun on our teddies day while raising money for charity.    

We played hairdressers after reading about Kipper's first visit to the hairdressers.  We made the same sign that is in the that is in the reading book.  

Every day we are working hard  on our literacy skills. 

Play and Talk is huge part of our day. We learn to listen, take turns in talking, express our ideas, thoughts, feelings and become better friends. 

A huge target for us all is to develop our fine motor skills.  We do this with pegging, threading, playing with dough and feeding bob the ball with tweezers and gems.  "Bob is fun to feed. I like when he is full and I get to squeeze all the gems out of him."  

Mark making through paint, chalk and other methods allows us to communicate messages through pictur. s and words. 

We liked the opposite game this week as we had match the pictures and it was good to read the words with Miss Penman to help. "

We like to act out games, talk about stories and this week we have worked hard on retelling the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."  

Lastly we like to talk and share our play  learning with our teachers and friends before tidy up time.  

MESSY and CREATIVE play!  

THE CHILDREN HAVE ENJOYED PLAYING WITH SHAVING FOAM, PAINTING THEIR OWN PICTURES, MAKING ITEMS OUT OF BOTH PAPER AND MATERIAL AND PLAYING WITH THE SMELLY CINNAMON PLAY DOUGH.  

During this time they have been able to practise making marks, their fine motor skills, communication, expressing themselves and their feelings and their maths knowledge.   Look out for our artwork next week if we did some.  

The last two weeks we have been working very hard on our numbers.  We have. been: 

• Reading numbers 

• Counting forwards and backwards

• Started learning about our number stories.  

1.   Mr One likes to run. He stands. tall and use to be in the army. 

2.   Mrs Two is a beautiful swan who loves to chat. 

3. Miss Three is cheeky butterfly who loves to chat and sticks her tongue out.  

4. Mr Four had an accident as he broke his leg so he sits down with his walking stick.  

• We used our loose parts to count and talk about them.

• We made models with our blocks to show pattern and symmetry.  

• We made lots of shapes with play dough - counting, comparing and adding.  

• We are beginning to subitise with dice and games in our classroom.  

• We continue to work on our problem solving by completing puzzles together. 

• Lastly we use number and count daily with our class jobs as we count lunches, feelings and take turns to do the register.