Sun Group:

This month the Sun room have started getting into the Christmas spirit and started their crafts early, there has been lots of opportunities to paint with their hands and feet creating mistletoes and wreaths. In the garden the children have been working on keeping warm and developing their gross motor skills doing mini obstacle courses, the children have been learning to jump, crawl, balance and run in different ways. The children have also been learning to care for others through dolls role play, feeding them with cutlery and bottles. The children have developed their understanding of hygiene cleaning the dolls clothes and giving them a warm bath. Animal small world trays have also provided opportunities for role play, learning different animal sounds and names of animals too.

Moon Group:

November has been full of events such as Diwali, firework night, remembrance day and children in need! The moonies have had lots of winter small worlds such as icy scenes, animal rescues and of course beginning their Christmas crafts! The children have had lots of opportunities to explore different textured play, natural items both indoors and outdoors. Story sacks have also been a focus around role play, the children have retold familiar stories using the puppets and added in their own ideas as part of their imaginative play too.

Pre-School Star Group:

This month preschool have been identifying 2D shapes and their properties such as corners and sides. The children have then used the shapes combining them together to make models through various activities such as making rockets, creating Santa sleighs and using wooden blocks with shaving foam. Shapes were also looked at around the environment such as watching clouds and observing how the sky changes throughout the day. The children have also been working on drawing movement and sound as well as drawing real life objects both indoors and outdoors. The children have also been exploring how things work providing opportunities to think of their own ideas and practice these while using the woodwork bench.