Sun Group:

This month the Sun room have continued to explore Christmas crafts and activities, they have been practicing gross motor skills by filling and pouring jugs of hot chocolate gloop! They created their own Polar Express train, using flour as snow and working together to create and build a track. They also looked at different themes of small world activities including arctic animals, on the farm and a dinosaur swamp! This helped develop their communication and language skills as they pretended to be different animals by making their sounds. Out in the garden they have investigated different natural materials such as mud and water, alongside leaves, sticks, pinecones and conkers. They have also looked into various role play themes, creating towers as builders and serving mince pies at Mrs Claus Cafe. They have focused on developing gross motor skills by completing obstacle courses and kicking and throwing footballs, trying their best to aim it into the goal!

Moon Group:

During December the moons have enjoyed all things Christmas! From singing Christmas carols to designing their own Christmas trees and baubles using various craft resources and also made their own decorations to take home using salt dough and paint. It has been a magical month getting ready for Christmas and all the children are very excited! The moonies have used construction materials to make Santa’s sleigh in the garden, working together as a team and using their imaginations to source various materials to complete their creation! The children have engaged well in stories this month and have used the different story sacks and props to extend their play. They had a go at creating their own story using the puppets and puppet theatre which was great fun!

Pre-School Star Group:

Preschool Stars have had a busy moth getting ready for Christmas! They have spent time creating their Christmas crafts to take home, exploring the role play post office to act out their own stories and practising their letter formation whilst writing letters to Father Christmas. Preschool have also been learning about different forces this month through lots of activities and experiments. They looked at floating and sinking using objects in the water tray, exploring the push and pull force of buoyancy and gravity by pushing balls under the water and taking part in a game of skittles. Before finally finding coins in a pirate treasure tray using magnets. The group learnt how to make predictions and test their theories. Positional language and directions have been a focus this month too, the children have taken part in lots of different obstacle courses, using a range of different positional language and directional instructions to follow. This was further explored through drawing maps and taking a walk through the village to visit well known locations and discussing the routes taken to reach these destinations. Finally the children have learnt about 2D and 3D shapes, searching for these in the environment and using them to build new structures as well combining them to make new shapes.