Birthday Parties

As part of our All About Me Autumn topic, we enhanced our Role Play area to celebrate different birthdays. We focused on numbers 2, 3 and 4 and encouraged children to talk about their experiences of birthdays, promoting speaking and developing children's conversational language. We used prompt picture cards to encourage children to about party bags, cakes, presents, balloons, party hats and blowers etc. Children also role played wrapping presents and practised their mark making skills writing party invitations and birthday cards.

Get your spots on for Children In Need

Friday 17th November we are inviting everyone to go spotty for Children In Need. Wear your spots bright, wear your spots big but wear your spots a plenty and pay a £1.00 donation to help us raise funds for Children In Need 2017.

Visting the Cenotaph

The children visited the local Cenotaph in Corporation Park. They each planted a poppy made from their own handprint to show our respect for all the men and women who lost their lives for our Freedom. This supports our St Marys Values - Mutual Respect and Tolerance.

Remembering Our Soldiers

October Attendance

Congratulations to all our children who achieved 100% attendance for the month of October.

Halloween

 

The children dressed in their spooky outfits for our Halloween fun.

 

 

 

The children were encouraged to carry out mathematical problems with spiders. Depending on their confidence with numbers children were challenged to:

 

 Count spiders

Select a small number of objects from a group when asked, please give me one, please give me two

Make comparisons between quantities

Talk about more and less

Know that groups of things change in quantity when something is added or taken away

Recite numbers in order to 10

Identify numerals

Count spiders 1:1

 

 

 

 

We carved pumpkins, learning about natural resources and cutting up real vegetables for children to explore, talking about seeds, pulp and using lots of descriptive words to talk about the pumpkins.

 

 

 

We enhanced the Role Play area into a Witches house and encouraged children to listen to the story of Winnie the Witch and her cat Wilbur. Children could then use resources to explore the story independently and pretend to make their own spells, developing their imaginary play skills.

 

 

 

The children made and decorated their own gingerbread Halloween shapes, focusing on tools that are used for a particular purpose. The children explored different ingredients.

 

 

 The children created their own potions and observed what happens when then mix vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. They had great fun mixing different ingredients together, changing and adapting their potions independently.

 

 

 

 

 

We also carried out some silly games and went trick o' treating around the park. A big thank you to one of our morning mummies who brought in some trick o' treat sweeties for the children to take home.