Enjoying our learning environment!

It has been another busy and exciting week in Early Years! We have been making the most of our outdoor provision this week. The children have particularly enjoyed building with bricks and working collaboratively to create their own vehicles using loose parts, carefully selecting resources for a clear purpose. We have even seen some children taking on the role of foreman, using the laptops to plan and organise their builds! It has been wonderful to see the children bringing their ideas to life.
In Literacy, we have continued our work with our focus text, So Much! by Trish Cooke. This week, we have been developing our ability to recall information from the story and make inferences about the characters’ feelings and emotions. The children have been looking closely at the illustrations, as well as listening carefully to the words in the text, to help them work out how the characters might be feeling. We particularly enjoyed making comparisons between the celebrations in the story and our own family celebrations!
In Maths, Saplings have been enjoying working with puzzles to explore shape and position. They have been developing their spatial awareness and using mathematical language as they worked out where pieces belong. Ash Class have been putting their reasoning and deduction skills to the test! They have been exploring how two different groups have been sorted and thinking carefully about the rules used. The children have investigated sorting in a variety of ways, including by shape, colour, material and whether objects have straight sides.
 
We have hosted a few visitors this week, coming to see how brilliantly we are doing in our learning environment. The children did a wonderful job of making them feel welcome, with thorough and enthusiastic guided tours and keen sharing of their projects at hand! It was lovely to see their confidence blossoming at this early stage in the term.

In PSED, we have been thinking about our emotions and how we can recognise and express how we are feeling. We enjoyed listening to the song Scribble Spot on the board, and talked about times when we have experienced different emotions, including sadness, anger and happiness. We also explored what it can feel like when our emotions are all muddled up. During choosing time, the children enjoyed representing their emotions in different ways, creating their own colourful scribble spots and using playdough to make faces showing different emotions.

The children in Ash Class have been working so hard with their phonics and are recognising and learning their letters and sounds. It has been wonderful to see how enthusiastically they join in and how well they are beginning to recall the sounds we have been learning. Today, we enjoyed a fun sorting game where we explored the difference between letters, numbers and words. The children worked together to identify each one and sort them into the correct groups. This was a great opportunity to develop their understanding of print through a playful team game.


What a wonderful time we have had at Forest School in the sunshine! ☀️ The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the outdoors and making the most of the beautiful weather.
We spent time collecting conkers, noticing the different colours, shapes and sizes as we explored.
The children also had lots of fun climbing trees, developing their balance, coordination and confidence as they challenged themselves and supported one another.
It was lovely to see the children enjoying the freedom of the outdoors, taking risks, exploring nature and building their independence through play. We love to see their enthusiasm and adventurous spirits coming out in the great outdoors!

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