This week in Mighty Oaks 🌳the children having been looking at 🐲 Zog the book.
We’ve explored the woods for a Zog rainbow walk, where there the children looked for objects relating to the colours on their chart. 🌈
In cooking we made Gluten and dairy free Zog shaped biscuits yummy ! 🧑🏾‍🍳

In our Read, write, ink lessons 📚we broke down the book into sections, beginning, middle and end. Throughout we focused on the phrases and sentences
‘ Bravo ‘ and …
‘ Now that you’ve been shown, you can do it in your own’
Using these through the day in their daily routine reminded them of the book.

Getting our creative drama skills 🎭ready we put the children’s memory of the book to the test by dressing up as a character from the book and role played the scenes.
Creating our very own dragon school.

Maths lesson 🧮 focus was matching quantities to numerals with objects around the room to Autumn related numbers.

Let’s get physical 🏃🏽‍♂️
Indoor PE we played lots of different parachute games relating to our Theme topic of ‘ what goes up, must come down ‘
Outdoor PE Mr Birch asked the children to practice their underarm throwing by aiming a bean bag to land inside a hola hoop. ⭕️
Children then had a wonderful time in Sensory play by catching bubbles.

Exploring the world 🍂🍁 around them our tuff tray was set up as a scene from the Zog book with natural resources from outside and handmade props. This allowed the children to touch, smell and bring their own ideas to the tray in their child initiated time.

Next weeks book will be
‘ The scarecrows wedding ‘ 🌾

Uno, dos, tres… let’s go !
We started the week off with our European language day, which was of course Espana ! 🇪🇸 and we loved it. The children took part in array of activities from Dancing, speaking, cooking, colouring and the piñata. 🪅

We have to give a massive thank you to Mattias Mom who worked so hard to make our Hot air balloon piñata. It was absolutely amazing ! the talent and skill in such craft 👏🏻⭐️ the children really enjoyed your visit and games with you ❤️ so again thank you.

Also a big thank you to Mr Pablos for making us our yummy Spanish treats, the children tucked right in to trying and tasting new foods. 🇪🇸

Then the rest of the week we looked at our book
‘ Aliens love underpants ‘ 👽🩲
Digesting the book into parts we extended their learning, they made a rocket in their team groups ready for the launch competition on Friday, role played Aliens stealing nursery’s underpants from our washing lines. Guessing which character has gone missing, pairing and matching underpants, and washing underpants, (all clean ones though) and seeing how long it took them to dry in the breeze. Thankfully the weather was on our side.

PE outdoors Mr Birch got them to take part in a team game of minion’s and bananas 🍌 where the minions had to tag a child with a bib, once that child was tagged they had to stand still arms up and wait until a friend could free them by peeling their arms down.
Indoor PE we used a lot of balance beams in different ways to get the children moving around using their bodies in different ways.

Feelings Friday we talked about toilet training and using the toilets in the correct way with a sequence game.

Competition winners were…… 🥁Green group and Blue group 🚀🎉👏🏻 bravo ! Such a cool rocket.

Hope you all enjoy the weekend, we look forward to seeing you Monday with next weeks book ready to jump right into ‘ Zog ‘ 🐲

It’s been a very busy two weeks here in Mighty Oaks! 🌳
The children have been very curious and interested to explore the new and familiar experiences around them. From the role play area ‘ space rocket’ theme book ‘ what ever next ‘ to the physical and large construction outside.
In our creative areas we allowed them to experiment with a range of media tools and materials to finish the Zog display.🐲

This weeks focus learning was listening.👂
Where we have listened to our friends stories of their holidays and showing their special toys. ⭐️
The circle time was a great time in our small groups to explore sounds, in a listening activity and walk around the school.
They all enjoyed taking part in action songs by moving, singing and dancing while making sounds with the musical instruments.🎶

In adult lead learning time we’ve been looking at where the children are towards learning and achieving Autumn milestone🍁
Maths focus 🧮was the value of number 1 and touch counting up to 10. Literacy focus 📚was looking at books and talking about them.

Indoor and outdoor PE sessions got off to a great start !
Children really enjoyed this time to move around and negotiate space, by running, jumping, climbing, throwing, and so much more. We have some pretty impressive movers especially in ball control. 🤸🏽

Next week we are Looking at the story ‘ whatever next ‘ in depth to learn new vocabulary and recall a four part sequence of the book, and it’s characters, it’s important they learn a structure of beginning, middle and end to widen their own vocabulary and skills in story telling. 🧸🚀

Cooking/ forest sessions will begin on Tuesday please bring wellies. Cooking we are taking part of the theme book where the bear makes his own sandwiches for his trip to the moon and learning where our ingredients come from.
In the forest area children will be given this opportunity to explore the great outdoors. Sounds like fun ! 🧑🏾‍🍳🌲