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 ‘ 🐲