Autumn Term 

Literacy - mark making

This week in literacy and physical development, the children have been exploring mark making using pencils, felt tips and paint. Some children were drawing the graphemes linked to our phonics focus.

Creative development

The children have been exploring self-portraits by looking closely in a mirror and drawing their faces using pencils and black pen. They carefully noticed where to place their features and worked hard to represent themselves. The results are warm, expressive, and very personal — a wonderful achievement for our 4-year-olds! 

Literacy

Wonderful to see the children confidently picking up pens and pencils, taking their writing into continuous provision.

Creative Development

Our children have been learning all about Autumn including hedgehogs and were so excited to create their own hedgehog artwork using pastels . They looked carefully at leaves to include in their nests and explored lots of different colours to make the spines. Everyone worked so hard and felt very proud of their wonderful creations!

Understanding The World

We had a wonderful time celebrating our Harvest Festival with the Explorers and the Climbers! it was lovely to welcome parents to join us for this special occasion. The children sang some harvest songs and the Climbers proudly showed their autumn wands, which they had carefully created. The Explorers had made bread rolls and enjoyed talking about where our food comes from and how it grows. It was a joyful celebration of autumn, community and thankfulness!