Spooky Surprises

​We hope you have all had an enjoyable half term week and are ready for returning to school on Tuesday.
Before the holidays we had fun with our theme of ‘spooky surprises!’ We read Meg and Mog stories, using our Fred talk to read phonetically regular words within the stories. We learned some Spooky Halloween songs, Such as Five Little Pumpkins and Halloween’s Coming! We have created spells and used our fine motor skills to collect spiders and letters from the spaghetti worms, created lanterns, spiders and spooky paintings
 
We have continued with our learning about what it means to be independent. The children have been working in small teams with an adult to set up the outdoor play equipment for the Nursery and Reception classes. Throughout the day they have to keep checking their area to make sure that it is being played with responsibly and help to tidy away at the end of the morning and afternoon. We have also talked about the importance of helping each other to learn new skills. If you are someone that can put your coat on then try and help someone else to learn to do this. We listened to a story called Cleversticks and talked about how the children in the story were all good at different things and used their skills to help their friends.
 
In maths we have been learning about ‘more’ and comparing amounts and carefully counting to check which amount is more
 
On Tuesday, before reading together, we had a special visitor who came to school to talk to us about her work at the Children’s Hospital. The children were really interested in looking at the photos about the hospital and the model helicopter and ambulance that were left with the Rainbows for them to play with. Our visitor, who just happens to be Ruby’s Grandma, also gave us a gorgeous soft Children’s hospital bear for our class. This bear is so cuddly that we decided he would help us feel better if we have a bump. 
If any parents, grandparents or family have any travel experiences, jobs, hobbies or cultural experiences, such as weddings, then we would be delighted if you could spare 10 minutes of your time to share with the children. All you would need is a photo or object that you could talk about. It all helps to enrich the children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.  Alternatively, you could share a photo on Seesaw, with just a bit of background information, so that adults in class can discuss with the children.