This week we invited the parents from day care to come and join us for a stay and play session. This session fell on world book day so we had lots of exciting activities based around our favourite stories!

We celebrated world book day this week with a Julia Donaldson themed day.

We set up activities based on our favourite books and the children came dressed up as some of their favourite book characters. We also shared some of our favourite stories together on the carpet.

This week we have been learning all about space with our zoom to the moon story. We made our own rocket in the role play area, made aliens in the play dough and explored making night sky pictures using the chalks and the glitter.

This week we read the story ‘walking through the jungle’.

We have explored different sounds and ways to move our bodies, like the animals in the story. We have painted pictures of the animals and made our own binoculars ready to go for an animal hunt in forest school.

The children have enjoyed sorting the different wild animals into groups and counting how many they have.

We have started back this term learning all about different types of transport. We have focused on cars and boats over the last few weeks.

We have sorted and arranged vehicles, counting them as we go and looking at big and small. We set up a car garage in our home corner and have taken a ride on our bus and boat.

We have made animal masks from our row your boat story and explored the boats in the water tray too this week.

This week we have been enjoying lots of Christmas activities ready for the festive season.

We set up Santa’s workshop in our roleplay area, had a go at wrapping presents and decorated Christmas trees. We held our Christmas party on Thursday and played party games and enjoyed our snack plates from home.

This week the children have been learning all about the nativity story. We have been exploring our nativity scene tuff spot and talking about what happens in the story. We have made stables using the different construction materials and started making lots of Christmas crafts for our families.

We also celebrated Christmas jumper day and had our Christmas dinner all together.