This half term we have explored the autumn leaves and trees through sensory, painting and learning. Lots of different colours and textures. The children have colour matched, picked their own leaves and made beautiful art work.
Learning about Autumn
Category : Crew Tymon 24/25
Cutting Food
This week we tried something new in class, the life skill, cutting food with a knife and fork. The children did so well and knew to use different pressure for hard and soft food. They even tried some new foods, like Kiwi, which tasted ‘sour’ and noticed the different taste with red and green pepper, the red one was ‘sweeter’.
Roald Dahl Day
Today we made our very own Dream Jar from the book The BFG. We loved getting creative using different mediums like glitter and sequins. We talked about what glitter could represent in a dream, glitter can mean happy and exciting , dark colours can mean sad or angry dreams, we call them nightmares.
Fire Fighters
In Expedition we are learning about The Great Fire Of London and understanding people that help us in our community. The children have used their cutting skills to cut out fires, paint fires and paint their hands to make our firefighters to put the fires out!
Life Skills
The children learned how important cleaning their teeth properly is and getting all the dirt off with the tooth brush and tooth paste. They did a brilliant job and were very focused on getting the teeth sparkling clean! Even trying on their own teeth! Great work guys 🙂
Patterns
The children have been doing lots of learning using our bear counters. We’ve been following patterns and created our own in our maths learning.
School library visit.
Last week our crew walked to the school library to enjoy reading and exploring different types of books. There was so many to choose from!
Fine motor & sensory learning.
This week the children practiced different fine motor skills in our sensory activities. The children cleaned all the mucky animals using sponges and scrubbing brushes. We also enjoyed scooping and digging our shapes out of the ’Gelli Baff’ and using different tools such as a masher and whisk.
Phonics in action.
This week in phonics we focused on letter formation and blending. The children were very engaged in our phonics learning while using cars and paint to form the letters. The children also used cars to consolidate their understanding around blending, whilst avoiding a parking ticket…
5 Green Bottles.
This week during maths we did the 5 green bottles activity. The children waited for their turn to pour the bottle away, whilst we focused on number recognition and counting backwards from 5-1. The children enjoyed making a big splash!
Life skills/hygiene.
This week we focused on hygiene and oral health. The children learnt about the importance of brushing our teeth and keeping healthy. The children also worked on cooking skills and learning to crack an egg. Alongside this, we kept our focus around understanding why we should clean our hands before and after handling food.
