This month the babies have enjoyed musical instruments, responding to music. We’ve been getting lots of practice crawling and running outside in the garden. We have also been very creative by making leaf printing pictures, learning the colours red, yellow and orange. We've been colouring fruits and repeating single words after our teachers. We’ve enjoyed looking at books, listening to teachers’ different tones during story time outside in the castle. We have enjoyed role-play with happy land people, animals and small world, sharing toys and using our imagination. We continued looking at autumn using red, orange and brown colours, creating and collecting leaves.

As they will be doing a lot of junk modelling around the autumn theme. They will be looking at autumn animals like squirrel, hedgehog and fox. They will be exploring with different musical instruments as they sing their favourite nursery rhymes.

The bumblebee children have been learning about the five senses and they focused mainly on the sense of touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. They have enjoyed a fruit tasting session to extend their knowledge on the sense of taste. They have learned their numbers as they counted how many fingers they have and have enjoyed painting for finger co-ordination to develop fine motor skills. We have listened and danced to our favourite nursery rhymes this week to enhance their communication and social development skills. They have enjoyed making binoculars using tissue and paper rolls. They have explored a range of outdoor activities like climbing, balancing, throwing and catching to support our physical development. 

The children will be exploring the sense of smell as they continue to learn about their five senses.They will also be exploring different sea animals learning the animal names as well as counting how many animals they can see to support their mathematics skills.

This month the preschoolers have been creative as they have made bee with tissue roll cardboard and have been mimicking the sound that bees make. We have been painting nails and talking about the phonic sounds focusing on letter “s”. They have explored the 5 different senses and learned more about what we use to see, touch, hear, taste and smell. They have enjoyed counting and writing numbers 1-5 and sticking on shapes to improve their maths skills. They have used paper to make an image of themselves and have been identifying the hair, eyes, nose and mouth. They have explored different materials and objects with various textures; hard, soft, fluffy, rough and smooth and also spent a lot of time exploring in the big garden with loads of physical activities.

Be getting creative making their own shakers as thy continue to explore the sense of sound. They will be playing with various instruments like drums, tambourines and maracas. They will also be spending a lot time on jolly phonics to learn their phase 1 letter name and sound as well as other activities to develop their literacy skills. 

As the weather is getting really hot now, we implore parents to please endeavour to apply suncream on your child /children or make it available and also put a hat in their bags to protect them from the hot sun when they go outside in the big garden

Please see the link below from the Government with advice on how to explain Coronavirus if children are worried.

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