Five Senses continued.

Taste and Smell

This term's topic of Five Senses has come to an end. The children have had a fantastic time exploring using all of their five senses and learning lot's of new language!

Each of the children are now repeating words in English and are able to follow simple commands throughout the day. We have been encouraging appropriate behaviour in class and following class routines, how quickly they adapt. We must remember just how young they are and what and amazing achievement it is for them to already be understanding so much in English. I am constantly amazed by them!

We finished off the topic with the sense of Taste, we tried lots of new food and could each say, ¨I like it¨ or ¨I don't like it¨ and  I'm sure a few of them will be repeating this at home.

I like it

 I like it

 I like it

 I don't like it!

 Then we did our activities on the sense of Smell, We had lots of different containers with 'smelly' things inside. We tried this as a group and named the ingredients then repeated on an individual basis.

                                                                   Mmm, smells nice

 I like it

 Let's have a look

Each week we also have activities on Maths and Literacy which continue throughout the year.

This week we have been doing math's activities on the computer and the children are doing really well.
You can help your child by allowing them to use your computer at home, encouraging the use of the mouse and also in counting and recognising their numbers. One of our favourite sites is: topmarks.co.uk  they have several maths games for 3-5 years. Our favourite at the moment is counting the buttons on the gingerbread man. The children are now learning to recognise and count numbers up to 5. With some of them going to 10 and beyond.In literacy we have been doing lots of listening to and identifying sounds, including the initial sounds of their names.

 We made some yucky, slimy gloop...and the children loved it!

Important Reminders:

Next week we will be doing lots of activities based around Halloween. We will finish this off with our Halloween parade on Friday morning. Please being your child to school with their costume on and a change of clothes in case they should want to change afterwards. This does not have to be school uniform on this day. We will be having an Early Years round of activities where the children will be mixing with the other classes (up to Year 2) it promises to be lot's of fun!

On Monday 23rd of October, we will be changing class rooms with Reception Class. This will happen at the end of the day once the children have gone home. We will be following our usual routines and the children will still be dropped off and collected in the usual place. (Nursery Patio) We will the have our morning routines and siesta in the new class, opposite our current class but all other activities and patio will remain in our second creative class as normal.

If you have any questions about this please feel free to discuss them with me and I hope I can answer them sufficiently or failing that Miss Eccleston or Mr Bailey will be able to help.

When sending in water bottles for the children please ensure you have their name clearly marked to avoid confusion, Thank you.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you again on Monday,

Miss Jackie