Christmas

We made some lovely Christmas things today.

Making snowmen



William's snowman!



Making tissue paper characters

Collections

We've been playing with a variety of collections over the last few days - buttons, pine cones, shells and lids. 

Chris' festive creations!



Collections provide children with opportunities for classifying, counting, shape recognition, learning colours, transferring from one containter to another, sharing and role-play. 

Change to the menu

We have altered the menu - on a Monday of week 2 we will be having fish pie instead of corned beef hash.  We tried it today and all the children enjoyed it.  If you would like us to add anything to our menu, then please let us know and we will try and incorporate it. 

Sorting, classifying and learning about colours

We played with the gingerbread men.  The children sorted them, balanced them, joined them, put them in and out of containers and we talked about the colour names of them. 

Christmas!

All being well and if the children want to, we will be starting to make our Christmas decorations etc this week.  We are taking our 'Dear Zoo' items down towards the end of the week.  We'll really miss them as they look fantastic, but I'm sure the Christmas things will look fantastic too! 

It's week 2 this week

Thank you so much!

We made up the shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child today.  We had enough items to make up 4 boxes, two for boys and two for girls.  We were also able to separate them into different age groups. 

I have donated online and printed off a barcode which will let us know where the shoe boxes get delivered. 

I actually got quite emotional when we were making up the shoe boxes thinking about how lucky our children are with all the presents they get at Christmas time.  Hopefully these will make some children, a lot less fortunate than ours, very happy.  Thank you so much for your donations. xx

More items for shoe boxes

Thank you to Tyler's mummy and Eszme's mummy for the items they brought this morning. 

Week beginning 7th November is week 3

Operation Christmas Child

Thank you to Joel's mummy who has sent in some items, a donation and a shoe box.  If you wish to contribute to this, then please send items by Friday 11th November.  We will make up the boxes with the children as we get enough items. 

Thanks.