Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

We read we are going on a ghost hunt and we represented the five ghosts we found using a five frame! We matched the number on the number track!

We wore our safety googles and used hammers to hammer golf tees into the pumpkins. This has been great for our fine motor skills and building our arm muscles too!

Class One worked with Mrs Ula to bake pumpkin shaped biscuits. They enjoyed combining the ingredients, rolling the dough and cutting out the pumpkin shape. There were lots of star bakers!

Reception have been painting pumpkins in their artbooks. They used the correct colours and shapes to create a painting of the real orange pumpkin on the table. They used the vocabulary stalk, vine, pumpkin and ridges to describe the parts of the pumpkin they were painting. 

Class one have enjoyed running their own hot chocolate shop in class one! We poured warm, velvety hot chocolate and added giant, fluffy marshmallows. There has been some super talking and vocabulary used! 

We have enjoyed exploring creating pumpkin artwork in the style of Yayoi Kusama.

We used bright colours and black spots to add spotty detail to our pumpkins. 

We used dough to create 5 little pumpkins sitting on the wall for our five frame!

We found one less each time one fell off the wall. We smashed the pumpkin with our hand. 

We also represented the amount using numbers and tallies. 

Super maths and fine motor fun! 

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We have been using dough disco to help us improve our finger strength and muscle development. We created flower shapes by pressing the dough, snail shells by curling the dough and we enjoyed moving the dough to our favourite songs and rhymes! Give dough disco a go together at home using our dough…

Reception have started to learn more about 1,2 and 3. We have made the amounts on 5 frames, drawn pictures, showed amounts on fingers, looked at the matching numbers, looked at dice patterns and subitised. We played make a team of 1,2 and 3! The children also explored 1,2 and 3 during learning…

Today we read the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs. We retold the story through small world play and role play. We also drew pigs, build houses sign large and small construction toys, sequenced the story, heard a musical version of the story and then read another version of the story…

We retold the creation story through role play, movement and rhyme. We went in the dark tent and into the light, we felt water, became birds, explored the natural environment, drew the moon, stars and sun, moved like an animals and rested. We lit a candle and said a prayer outside. What a lovely…

We have worked alongside the whole school to create crosses and school value stones for our forest school reflection and prayer garden. We can be calm here, be with nature and be spiritual in nature.