This week we started looking at people who help and look after us including the dentist. We talked about what the dentist does and what happens when we go to see one.

The children learnt all about cleaning their teeth and why it is important and they loved exploring our dentist set up in the roleplay area. We explored healthy food in the play dough and even made our own toothpaste.

This week we read the story ‘I love my Grandma’ which is based around two bears.

We set up a teddy bears picnic in the tuff spot and explored counting out plates, cups and cakes to each of the bears. We made our own bear masks using collage materials and went on a bear hunt in forest school.

We also collected some leaves in forest school and had a go at some leaf rubbing.

This week we read the story ‘I love my Grandad’. We talked about members of our wider family and the things we like to do together.

We drew pictures using our family photos, printed our houses using shapes and collected natural resources to create faces.

We also had a go at making our own sandwiches for snack like in the story.

This week we have continued to look at our families and where we live. We explored the places and things we like to do together just like Spot does in the book .The children have been creating tiny towns with the small world houses, cars and people and have been moving around the roads we created in the garden.

We talked about different emotions and had a go at recreating them in the mirror and identifying them in some of our favourite stories.

This week we have been looking at our families and people who are special to us. The children have been creating houses using the building materials and the paints and talking about who we live with. We also set up a baby care station where we had a go at feeding, bathing and dressing the babies.

This week we have started our first topic all about ourselves and our families. We looked at the book ‘Ten little fingers and ten little toes.’

We started creating our painted self portraits, talking about the different features of our faces and looking at our homes and families using the different building materials and mark making equipment.

We also took part in our first P.E. and forest school sessions

This week we read the Teddy Bears’ picnic. We set up picnics in the garden and inside and focused on sharing out items with the bears. The children did brilliant counting and could collect a certain number of items when asked.

We used the playdough to make our favourite picnic food and used marks to create our own shopping lists. We finished the week off by making our own sandwiches with various fillings for our Teddy Bears’ picnic in the garden!

This week we read the story of the three little pigs. We used the puppets to retell the story and concentrated on counting up to 3 this week.

We made different houses using the materials from the story, made pig masks and explored the pigs in muddy gloop.

We also celebrated careers day with different activities and lots of dressing up.