This week the children have started a new mini project called ‘Sparkle and Shine’. This focuses on celebrations and we will revisit it at Christmas Time too! We have thought about Bonfire Night, Diwali and Remembrance Sunday (Poppy Day).
Using paint and glitter the children created some wonderful firework pictures. They further developed their mark making skills using chalks. The children built some fantastic firework models using the Construct-O-Straws.
We watched fireworks, played percussion instruments and did a firework dance using the streamers in PE.
In Maths we did some firework counting and the children showed the numbers on their fingers.
Using the Little Wandle phonics scheme the children learned the sound ‘s’ and played lots of games to develop their phonemic awareness and oral blending skills. We also thought about the sounds that fireworks make such as ‘bang’, ‘whoosh’, ‘pop’ and ‘sparkle’.
In ‘Rhyme Time’, we explored the nursery rhyme ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’. We sang it fast, slow, loud and quiet! We thought about rhyming words and clapped and tapped out the number of syllables.
The children had fun learning a new dance called ‘Get Funky with the Monkey’.
Later on, in the week the children learned about Diwali. They did some fantastic colouring, made some playdough diva lamps and had fun doing a scarf dance.
On Friday the children thought about ‘Poppy Day’ and made some lovely stickers to wear using their fingers to paint the poppies. They coloured in some poppies too!
