Percy the Park Keeper Stories, Rosie's Walk and The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

We had lots of fun this week continuing with activities based around Percy the Park Keeper. We read Badger's Bath and A Very Useful Little Friend. We also enjoyed reading some stories from our new Fordham's Awesome Book Box. One of these - Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins, we used to learn about positional language in maths. We also used Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar to learn the days of the week and sequencing times of the day.







We have also been checking the children's phonic, reading and maths skills to finalize our assessments of the children this half term and this will continue next week along with time for the adults and children to talk during learning conferences and look at their 'learning journey books' together, to celebrate the children's learning this half term.

 The children have been doing some great emergent writing during their role play in the animal rescue center, writing prescriptions and information about their patients. They improved their fine motor skills by cutting and applying bandages to the animals and dolls!

 We also enjoyed icing Percy's animal cakes: a fox, some hedgehogs and an owl. The children's counting and sorting of white and milk chocolate buttons was amazing!!! And we enjoyed an extra snack to taste our cakes - they tasted as good as they looked!

 The children have also been making pictures with 2-D shapes and talking about the shapes used.

Fox's Hiccups

This week we read the story of the Fox's Hiccups.  The children had to help find the fox so they wrote out lost posters asking people to help them look for the fox.  They had to describe him and where he was.
We had an Animal Centre where they could bandage up their own  teddies.

The children had to make food in the mud kitchen for the animal centre cafe.

We made clay hedgehogs,

For maths some of the children did independent adding using numicon

The children made a stage and sang songs to class 1 staff and Mrs Sibley.  This was a lovely surprise as I did not know there were so many different verses to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Needed For Wednesday 5th October

Dear Parents,
On Wednesday could you please ensure that your child brings a stuffed toy to school.  Thank you

Miss Stafford

Week 4 - The Rescue Party!

We've had another week of fun learning in Class 1!

In maths we've been learning to count, match numerals to a set, and begun to subitise numbers to 6 - i.e. recognise how many there are in a set up to six without counting - e.g. dots on a dice. We've used number tracks to recognise numerals up to 20.

Percy the Park Keeper also wrote us some letters, asking children for their help in rescuing some of his animals who had got themselves into trouble in our Early Years Area! Rabbit and cockerel got stuck at the top of the sand pit, frog and mouse got stuck at the top of the tower! The children thought about who they could call on for help: policemen, firemen, ambulance crew and inside we set up  a hospital for the animals and dolls who had hurt themselves. The children then dressed up and used team work and problem solving skills to rescue the animals. Some children recorded their rescue story in drawings and mark making in the afternoon, others wrote to Percy saying that all the animals were now safe!!

The children have also been making hedgehogs from paper plates and developing their scissor skills!!

Have a great weekend and see you next week!

Livia is holding 'Dan Dragon' who is hiding some of the numerals, Olivia is going to guess which
he has taken!

Counting objects in a set, ordering numbers and subitising numbers to 6.

Paper plate hedgehogs!

The policeman tries to rescue rabbit!

How are we going to reach up that high?

Nurses standing by to care for frog when the firemen have got him down from the tower!

Taking a risk!

Nearly did it!

Well done, we rescued rabbit!

Off to hospital to make sure he's ok!

This time it's cockerel who's in trouble and before you ask, he can't fly  because he's damaged his wing!

Fireman Miles is on the phone calling for reinforcements! Nurse Sophie is standing by!

Let's cordon off the area!

Let's see if we can do it together!