Since returning after the Christmas break, we have been celebrating the New Year and focusing on different fairy tales, due to many of the children visiting the Pantomime over Christmas and excitedly retelling us the various stories. We have had the dress up costumes out, which the children have enjoyed using for role-play. For Jack and the Beanstalk, we have been making our own ‘Magic Beanstalks’ with the letters of our names, as well as comparing the sizes of the Giant’s footprints with lego bricks! We have also been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where we have been enjoying some sensory play with oats, scooping and transferring with different utensils. The children have also been retelling and re-enacting the story at group times!
We also made the most of the snow! The children excitedly explored the school field and the garden where they discovered the difference in how the garden objects looked and felt whilst covered in snow and ice.
We are looking forward to the term ahead where we will be getting involved with the Big Garden Birdwatch with RSPB, learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year and of course… pancake day!
