F.S. Blog

We have had a fantastic week with so many fun activities linked to Dear Zoo!
We wrote letters to the zoo asking for a pet, we designed our own zoo, created enclosures for the animals and retold the story.

We used the balance scales to weigh and compare the weight of the Dear Zoo animals. The children used fantastic mathematical language ‘heavier, lighter, tallest and smallest’.

We retold the story of Dear Zoo….

We had a great start to our Foundation Stage family library mornings. The children loved being able to show their parent/grandparent around our classroom. We look forward to continuing with these on a Wednesday morning.

We have had a great week this week making and tasting porridge, writing instructions and messy play porridge…

We have had lots of fun outside too…

We have been so busy doing lots of activities linked to Goldilocks and the 3 bears.

We have also been looking at repeating patterns this week…

We would like to say a big thank you for all your support this half term. We hope you all have a lovely break and we look forward to seeing you all after half term.

We have had great fun exploring a new traditional tale this week.

We walked into a crime scene in the classroom on Monday and had to help solve what had happened….

After hearing the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears the children were on the hunt for Goldilocks. They searched the classroom, outdoors and all around school. Goldilocks had been up to no good and we found more traces of her naughty tricks. We had to show Miss Northen what she had been up to…

We have enjoyed mark making in different ways. Making wanted posters to help catch Goldilocks, making patterns and name writing in porridge oats, colouring and painting and lots more…

On Tuesday we took part in Internet Safety Day.

We have done some amazing writing this week….

More amazing writing….

We had fun exploring our new outdoor area!

We have been scientists this week, investigating materials and we carried out an experiment to see which materials were waterproof and would be best for the roof of the house.

There was some fantastic predictions…

We have had lots of fun completing lots of different activities…

And another exciting visitor today!

We loved meeting the piglet today and asked lots of great questions to find out more about her and what she eats, how big she will grow and where she lives!

We then made some piggy clay faces that we baked in the oven.

We have had a great week learning the 3 little pigs story and completing lots of activities linked to the story.

Cutting and sticking clothes on the pigs, threading, building stick, straw and brick houses, measuring with cubes, making play dough pigs and acting out the story!

It has been lots of fun!

Phonics fun!!

We had great fun in our PE lesson being builders!

We had great fun making pig biscuits!!

It’s been another busy week in Foundation Stage, we have introduced ‘Rainbow Challenges’ for the children to have a go at. There are lots of different focus challenges each week and the children are challenged to complete them all and make a rainbow with their lollipop sticks they get for completing each challenge. Why not ask your child what challenges they have been doing.
Below are just some of the activities they have been completing. We also started some ice investigations this week. There was some fantastic vocabulary being used to describe and explain what is happening.

We have done some word hunts this week where we had to write or read the word we found. It was good fun trying to make sure we found them all!

The FS1s have been enjoying their group time!

More fun in the classroom….

This term we will be looking at lots of different stories. We have started with the story ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers. We have talked about the characters, the setting and what happens in the story. The children have been amazing at retelling the story in different ways.

The children made their own penguins to be able to use in the ‘Lost and Found’ role play area. We had to be extra careful when drawing and colouring them as they were quite small – the concentration and fine motor skills were amazing! It was even a bit chilly so we pretended we were at The South Pole too. 🥶

The FS1’s have thoroughly enjoyed some group activities and games this week.

They had fun retelling the story of Peace at last…

More fun in the classroom….

We have had a great first week back, settling back into routine and exploring the new areas in our classroom.

We had lots of fun doing Dough Disco and strengthening our fingers for writing!

We have started a new reward jar, working together to earn cubes to fill the jar then choose a class treat!

Thank you again for all the support this term and for the very kind cards and gifts. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a good rest.
From The Foundation Stage Team x

We had a lovely Christmas party day on Tuesday. It was exciting making party hats and decorations. The children enjoyed dancing, singing and playing some party games. We also enjoyed our crisps and chocolate biscuit from The PTFA. Fun was had by all!