This year we dressed up as our favourite character or in our pj's for World Book Day. 

The children sat with their key person and read a story brought from home. 

This year for Children In Need 2024, we dressed in our pyjama's and had a toy sale to raise money for charity. 

This week we have been celebrating Bonfire Night and teaching children about fire safety. We have been talking about home experiences and had a bonfire in setting to allow children to understand how to enjoy fire safely in a controlled environment. Each child had a sparkler and the importance of wearing gloves and how to put them out correctly was modelled. 

We visit the local park frequently. The children enjoy enhancing their physical development and learning to take risks in a safe environment. It is vital that children have regular opportunities to enhance their physical skills and explore new places. It also encourages the to manage risks and experiment with different ways of moving, which then promotes healthy brain development and health. 

In the past few weeks, we have been teaching the children all about growth. They have been planting different seeds and placing them in the sun and watered them daily. They have had the opportunity to watch as the plants have been sprouting into flowers and vegetables in the hope of being able to try our own home grown produce. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This week the children have been exploring the story, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.' They are showing a significant interest in the story and in retelling the story events.  

The children will be reading the story, exploring with different medias to retell the book in small world form, and trying different fruits which are in the story.

For this activity, children will learn:

- To try new food textures and tastes.

- To share experiences.

- The effects of activity on their bodies.

- Join in with repeated refrains and anticipate key events in rhymes and stories.

- Maintain attention and develop listening skills.

- Develop a love of reading and literacy skills.

- Imagination.

- To suggest how a story might end.

The Animal Boogie

The children in class one have a significant interest in animals and sensory play activities. This week we have focused this with the animal boogie book and song, and used puppets to support understanding of the animals that feature throughout the story.

Children have explored paint and printing, danced and sang to the book, and explored with different ways of moving. This has helped children settle into preschool, experiment with different ways of moving, learn new animals and the sounds they make, improved listening and attention skills, and allowed children to develop their imaginative play skills.