The Gruffalo

Last week was our book week and we looked at 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson. The children made scary Gruffalo masks. This story is a great way to introduce rhyming words, which we tried to spot throughout the week! On Friday it was lovely to see lots of beautiful Snow Whites and princesses along with lots of Superheroes!

"My favourite food is Teema on toast"!

Who's that?!

Snow White and Tinkerbell!

Princesses and Superheroes!

Happy Book Week!!

Halloween Fun!!

Last week we had so much fun making Halloween crafts. We made bats, spiders, ghosts, pumpkins and scary pasta skeletons which we labelled with body part names. Children had fun 'Trick or treating' around the Early years classrooms.

Children tried very hard using their knowledge of sounds so far to read simple words such as hat, bat, cat, rat and bug, well done RM!!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school RM! It was lovely to see the children all excited to be back at school with their friends and nice to hear about their half term holiday. We have been busy this week making Halloween crafts and are very excited to 'Trick or Treat' on Thursday 31st October.

Half Term Holiday

Elmer the Elephant

This week we have been looking at colours and what better way to open this topic than with Elmer the patchwork elephant?! The children listened to lots of stories about Elmer and the jokes he liked to play on his friends. Please find the link below to the original Elmer the Patchwork Elephant story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQKKgMSYQRQ

Our activities this week involved making our very own unique Elmer the elephant. We also made a big class Elmer showing great team work, sharing and negotiation to finish it beautifully. I'm sure you'll agree the end result was great! 

Here are some of our individual creations.

And here is our great team effort. A classroom Elmer!

Team effort!

In maths this week we have been taking away one. We played games with animals determining how many would be left if one ran away, or swam away as Harbin corrected me, she was collecting some sea creatures!

Here the children are following a colour code to colour in an Elmer elephant. The children sounded out the first letter of the colours, well done RM!!!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy half term break RM, you have worked really hard this term!!

See you all on Monday 28th October for spooky Halloween week!!!