Wednesday 23 December 2015

Christmas party time!

PARTY DAY FUN AND GAMES!
There were some very groovy moves as the children danced to the party music!  
Musical statues was quite a challenge as they were finding it difficult to stop moving!
      
                                                                         
 Pass the parcel was a highlight! "Another layer!" was heard each time yet one more wrapper was taken off and the children's shrieks of delight got louder!






Finally this young man unwrapped the prize, as well as a chocolate coin for everyone! Then up to the party table to eat and these children definitely know how to party! 





Then time to open presents from Santa!  There were books, a jigsaw and a set of miniature chairs.
Everyone was intrigued by the large present, and lots of children tried to lift it, getting rather a surprise at how heavy it was! Inside was a wonderful wooden marble run construction set (all the gifts were great finds in local charity shops!)

We were able to treat the children to these gifts thanks to the Friends of the School, who also bought party food for us.


 It was lovely to have all the children together today for the party. They are a super class with a great sense of fun, and I am very proud of them all.


A great end to the term! A very Happy Christmas and New Year to you all!

Friday 11 December 2015

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

WE ARE EXCITEDLY COUNTING THE DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

We have been finding out about the very first Christmas, and the special baby Jesus.

Our tree has been decorated many times and looks beautiful. 

           



We needed to decorate the post box too, ready for all our Christmas cards!



OH, THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS RAINY..

The week began rather wet, but that simply gave different opportunities for play! The children decided they were going to wash all the vehicles, and no one escaped! Lots of giggling and chasing each other with wet brooms!!




I SPY SANTA...
Ho! Ho! Ho! I've got presents in my sack for the boys and girls.
The children were very busy wrapping little presents. This was great for practising fine motor skills such as manipulating tape, scissors, wrapping paper and folding the paper.






SUPER STARS!
This week we performed our Nativity Play with Lower School in front of over 100 parents in the afternoon show! We sang and signed "Twinkle twinkle little star", and we sang our hearts out with all the songs in the story. 


The week finished with Christmas Jumper Day, and we raised money for Save the Children.
Don't we look great in our fabulous jumpers! Some of them even played Christmas tunes!


Friday afternoon was Christmas Craft time, and some of our parents came to join in the fun. It was a great time of making and sharing together.
 


 













Next week... it's our Christmas party!

Saturday 28 November 2015

Playing and learning together

OUR MINI ENTERPRISE PROJECT!
Each class in the school, including Little Conkers, was asked to work on a project to raise money at the Christmas Fair this coming Tuesday 1st December.
Knowing how much the children love baking, I decided decorated gingerbread teddies would be the ideal thing for our class to make!


 










The two ingredients the children could not guess by looking at or smelling them were the brown sugar and the ground ginger but they said they liked the smell of them! 
As always the children talked as they worked and asked lots of questions and made lots of great observations.
We talked about how the mixture looked different to the scrambled egg and pancakes we had made previous weeks. We talked about how the dough needed to be just right for rolling and not too sticky!


The next job was decorating these great teddies. Don't they look wonderful! 
These are just a few of them - we've still got lots more to decorate on Monday and Tuesday - we're going to be very busy!

Make sure you come along to the Fair after school on Tuesday to buy some - 
only 50p each!


MORE LEARNING...

 The children's interest in the Beebots was extended this week by adding a pen and paper to encourage the children to find out the lines they could make.
Lots of great problem solving took place, with children trying to work out how to get Beebot to travel to different points. One super discovery was how to draw a circle!



There was more fun using the magnets with children counting how many items the magnets could lift off the table!








Our finger gym challenge this week was pegging as many socks onto the washing line as quickly as possible!
Opportunities for counting and matching as well as fine motor control.





We have been joining with Lower School to practise our Christmas Nativity and the children have been singing their hearts out.
On Friday it was lovely to see this little group of children gather around the music table and join in signing with the songs on the cd, as well as finding the parts of the story that went with each song in the Nativity story picture book.