Autumn Term 2025
Weeks beginning 13 & 20.10.25
The children enjoyed dressing up for Shwmae Day and learning a "Shwmae" song. We also found out about symbols of Wales and learnt a new song from our Ffa la la Program. This week the children have been practising their hand-eye coordination and deveoping their creative skills through decorating pumpkins for our Halloween Disco. They have also engaged their senses whilst choosing which foliage they would like to put in the pumpkin.
Play is our work! What have we been learning this week?
Phonics rhymes of the week-Tongue twisters!
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Homework:
Can you say the rhymes at different speeds? Can you say the rhymes whilst clapping/stamping your feet? Can you count on your fingers how many words begin with p/s/sh sounds in each rhyme? Choose a word and then can you count on your fingers how many sounds are in the word? (Eg. The word shells has 4 sounds: sh-e-ll-s)
Focus Tasks |
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Mud Kitchen |
Learning to put on waterproof clothing and wellies independently. Learning to play cooperatively. Learning to use the utensils purposefully and safely. |
Outdoors |
Builders’ yard, balance bikes, sand |
Dough |
A variety of cutters and moulds-What can you make? |
Role Play |
Learning to play cooperatively. Using loose parts and material to encourage creativity. This week the children have enjoyed the addition of blankets, large leaves, pine cones, conkers, acorns and sticks and have set up their own picnics. They have even made campfires and used the natural materials for marshmallows and hot dogs to cook on the fire. On Friday, the teddy bears appeared to join in with the fun. |
Oracy Corner |
Rhyme cases, selection of books and catalogues |
Construction & Small World |
Modelling the use of larger construction and natural materials to create buildings for a variety of small world figures. |
Fine Motor
Loose Parts table |
A variety of puzzles, elastic band boards, dough
A variety of Autumn artefacts to explore and identify-Encourage use senses. |
Mark Making |
Large painting board, variety of mark making implements on our mark making tables |
Maths |
Numicon Café. |
Creation Station |
Introducing scissors-Can you cut out your own pictures to collage with glue? |
Week beginning 6.10.25
This week the children have enjoyed working in small groups and taking part in "hot seating" to share their family photos with their friends. They have been learning that there are lots of different ways to be a family, as part of our No Outsiders Program. On Friday we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Day by dressing up in something yellow and talking about how we can be healthy.
Week beginning 29.9.25
The children enjoyed the addition of the parachute to our Movement Monday sessions. The parachute is an excellent activity for encouraging children to play collaboratively, as well as developing their bodily and spacial awareness. The children also practised identifying rhyming words through the parachute rhyme, Popcorn Pop.
Week beginning 22.9.25
The children are enjoying Squiggle-Dancing specific movements as a whole class and then working in small groups to replicate these movements on large sheets of paper, using chunky markers. Squiggle is our early years program for developing coordination and the movements and directions associated with handwriting. Our focus so far has been top to bottom and bottom to top.
During Movement Monday the children were introduced to working with a partner. Their challenge was to work with their partner to find the animals that had been hidden in the forest and then to pretend to be that animal by making it's noise. This activity was also part of our phonics program, focusing on identifying sounds in the environment.
Week beginning 15.9.25
This week the children took part in their first Movement Monday session. We didn't let the weather stop us, and we even managed to catch some sunshine! We introduced our new phonics program during this session and the Dewi Dragon challenge was to listen to and identify sounds in our environment. The children enjoyed listening to the wind rustling through the trees, the rain pattering on the roof of the roundhouse, the different vehicles that passed by on the road, and the older children playing in the playground. They learnt a rhyme to help them focus on using their ears to listen:
Listen, listen to the sounds.
Listen to the sounds all around.
You can hear them, let's all try it.
You can hear them if you're quiet.
Week beginning 8.9.25
Our mud kitchen has re-opened this week. The children have enjoyed working together to make some very sloppy treats, as a result of the Autumn showers. A great big thank you to our parents for providing the wellies. If your child's wellies are now too small for them, you can hand them into Mrs Fox, who will offer them to other children if needed, as part of our recycling/re-using mission.
