Hope you all enjoy our latest story 🙂
We have been learning about Diwali in Foundation Stage.
We’ve had lots of fun learning about the festival of light and made our own special Diwali lamps, called diyas, as part of our celebrations.
Foundation Stage have had an excellent time learning about ‘Remembrance Day’. We’ve decorated poppy biscuits, made observational paintings of poppies, created poppy sun catchers and lots more too!
To further develop language skills in Nursery, Mrs Elliott put the children to the test by giving them buckets with unknown objects in. The children had to put their hand in to describe how the different objects felt.
There was hard pasta, sticky washing up liquid, cold baked beans and many more.
Why not give this a try at home?
In Reception we are completing a daily ‘Funky Fingers’ challenge to continue to strengthen our finger, thumb and hand muscles. Across the week we have completed four challenges: Dough Disco, Firework Finger Grab, Firework cutting and threading. We have loved doing our daily finger exercises and we can’t wait to see what our challenges will be next week!
I set Reception ‘Funky Fingers’ challenges for their homework.
Here are some of their amazing photographs from their ‘Funky Fingers’ activities at home:
To celebrate Bonfire Night, the Foundation Stage Children have been creating their own fabulous firework pictures. The children used tubes to print with and then added a little extra sparkle with some glitter.
They look amazing!
Nursery and Reception have had an amazing day celebrating Halloween. We’ve been trick or treating on a special Halloween hunt, decorated biscuits as ghosts and pumpkins, made spooky lanterns and had a fantastic Halloween party.
We’ve had so much fun but we’re definitely ready for our half term holidays now!
Happy Halloween!
The EYFS team would love to say a big “Thank You” to everyone who donated a pumpkin to support learning in the Foundation Stage.
The children have focused on tool use and co-ordination by hammering nails into their skin. We had a lot of discussion around how to stay safe when using tools and we wore safety goggles to protect our eyes.
They have also loved exploring what we found inside the pumpkin, discussing the different textures and what the purpose of the seeds are.
At this time of year, we would usually invite you into school to find out about how we teach early reading in Reception. However, due to the current circumstances we are unfortunately unable to do this.
In order to support your child with their home reading, I have uploaded a presentation which looks at how we teach children to read at Marsden. I hope it helps!
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
This week, the Foundation Stage Unit has magically transformed into a spooky school!
We have a witches’ kitchen, potions and spells and lots of Halloween tasks to complete.
