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BUSY DAYS

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It’s been a busy week at school – we’ve been discussing our families and making plenty of special gifts to take home to everyone… Our school frames are filled with familiar faces busy at play and our family wall filled with our loved ones…

Fun using up our old play dough…

Plenty of time for a quiet picnic, spraying, baking, pouring and mixing…

Our special letters ready to be posted…

Plenty of art…

Painting ice blocks to cool down…

…and painting the school together!

 

BUSY DAYS

DINOSAURS 02

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It’s that time of the year again – all our paleontologists are in full swing! We spent the week exploring plenty of small world play, digging for fossils, baking, volcano experiments and plenty of fun art…

Interest corner with plenty of books…

A dinosaur cave…

Digging for fossils…

Fun dinosaur baking…

A volcano experiment…

And plenty of fun messy art!

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SPACE!

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Our school is filled with budding astronauts! The children’s interest and enthusiasm for space always amazes me! No lack of song and movement for this week and many trips to space! The real hits this week were gloopy sparkly space dough and our rocket building activity.

Amongst other activities around the class were astronaut emergent reading boards and felt board.

And of course plenty of fun art!

SPACE!

FARM PLAY PROVOCATION

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We’ve been having fun on the farm this week! Apart from all the animals the children loved learning about windmills, tractors and where our food comes from!

An interest corner with pictures, books and a pond of little ducklings!

Wooden animals, fences and blocks to create the perfect farm!

And of course lots of fun art…

FARM PLAY PROVOCATION

INSECTS & SPIDERS

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More wintry weather and great fun to create our own insect and spider play provocations indoors! Always a hit with the children and plenty to talk, sing, play and create about!

We’ve been chatting about life cycles and I love these safariology life cycle sets – the children are fascinated by them and love to handle and play with them. Some simple hand painted lady birds to sort and count and loads of books to keep us busy!

Inspecting our little creatures…

And of course some OHP fun playing with light and shadows!

And plenty of creative art!

INSECTS & SPIDERS

FUN FATHERS DAY CRAFTS!

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We had so much fun this father’s day! After a long weekend we had 3 days to get stuck in and make a few things for the special dads in our life! The children were so proud of all their wonderful crafts and were just beaming when Friday came and it was time to take everything home!

What we made: gold nuts and bolts frame, best dad trophy and a special monkey print card. All were super simple achievable crafts that the children really enjoyed making. The only things I really had to complete for them was the gold spray paint to the frames and the detail to the monkeys. (Super cute Monkey card idea was from:  http://www.craftymorning.com/fingerprint-monkey-card-idea-love-hangin/ )

FUN FATHERS DAY CRAFTS!

FUN AUTUMN DAY

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The weather is getting cooler at school and not all days are bright and sunny anymore – the perfect excuse to get the overhead projector out and play with light, shadow and shapes!

We had an Autumn table filled with pine needles, pine cones, acorns, autumn leaves etc. the children had a great time experimenting with the different items…

Then came more fun dancing in the shadows and identifying all the different items…Slowly adding different things they could find from all over the play space!

And then some fun with a treasure hunt in the garden to find Autumn inspired elements which were sorted into different groups and then incorporated into some great Autumn clay art!

FUN AUTUMN DAY