On Friday afternoon, Cherries went into the hall to play on the climbing frame. The children were much braver than last time and some climbed very high. Look at the photos of Cherries impressing us all with their braveness…
Cherries celebrated Halloween this week by having a party.
We played “pin the hat on the witch” and we ate lots of delicious food.
We have made lots of Halloween crafts this week including spider hats, ghost biscuits and different hanging decorations.
It’s been a quiet week in Flourish club with only two children. This week we had lots of fun making Halloween crispy cakes. The children were able to follow instructions in the correct order to successfully make their yummy cakes! They used the microwave independently to melt the chocolate and were able to use their fine motor skills to scrape the mixture into the cake cases.
Today in mindfulness club we did some positive quote colouring, played with the lego, and did some cosmic yoga.
Yoga
Playing together
Mindful colouring
We listened carefully to adults and each other, took turns and respected the equipment we used. We enjoyed exploring the resources in the Nurture Room.
This week as part of our topic work we read the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Browne. We shared our ideas and talked about the characters, setting and events.
Next we talked about our favourite fruits, linking what we had read to our own experiences. Everyone brought in some fruit from home to share with the class to make a fruit salad.
We worked carefully to wash, peel and chop the fruit, and then selected what we wanted to put in our fruit salad. It was delicious!
Afterwards we drew some of the fruits, attempted to label them and used descriptive vocabulary to talk about them.
Well done Acorns!
We have been focussing on working together as a team and communicating to share our ideas. We decided to make an obstacle course outside, but first we had to consider a few things:-
Work with a friend to carry heavy equipment. This helps to develop our communication, language, PSED and physical skills.
Make sure equipment is steady and safe before using it.
Take care when adding new parts to the track.
Make sure the route is clear and safe.
We all had lots of fun whilst learning!
This week, Cherries invited parents and carers into school to join us with our learning.
As part of our Stone Age topic, we built models of Stonehenge and we created handprints like people from thousands of years ago.
We also showed our parents / carers around our classroom and explained our learning.
As part of our Golden Time reward, Cherries have been in the soft play room. We had lots of fun!
We have been focusing on teambuilding in Birches class. The children have had time to work on social and communication needs and how to resolve conflict when a problem arises.
The children played a variety of games with one another and focused on working as a team and encouraging each other. 
We have had a great first week in Chestnuts Class! We have completed a variety of ‘all about me’ activities. We identified goals for the term, shared our holiday news, collaged a portrait with all the things they like, created an ‘all about me’ poster on purple mash and thought about what makes the feel proud. Keep up the amazing work Chestnuts!
