We’ve had a wonderful time in the woods today. We looked for signs of Autumn. We found prickly sweet chestnuts and acorns too. The children looked for places to hide the acorns and looked for squirrels in the trees too. Can you go on an Autumn walk with your child and send in photos on parent share? You could find out if all of the leaves are the same shape, can you see if the leaves are all the same colour, are there any autumn seeds or fruit such as apples, berries or conkers. Please let us know what you find.

We’ve had fun in base camp splashing in the puddles. Autumn is definitely here! Can you find some puddles at home? Please share any splashy fun with us on the parent share app.

The children have now been challenged to build houses for animals too. Can you find any duplo, old boxes and toy animals or teddies to build homes for?

As many of you know our theme this term is “Homes” which is inspired by all the building work going on next to nursery. Our children have been set the challenge to build their own homes using a variety of resources. Here’s one example from today. Can you please encourage your child to build at home, perhaps a den made of old sheets or some wooden blocks? Please share your creations on parent share with us.

We are concentrating hard at the moment on developing the listening skills needed to ensure that we will be able to differentiate sounds.  Please can you support this at home by using the website phonics play.  On this site just add the user name: march20 and the password: home.  Then select the phase 1 game “Welcome to the zoo”.  Please begin by meeting the animals, can your child name the animals and predict the sound they might make?  You can then move on to the main game in which they guess which animal is being delivered to the zoo.

Have fun!