Blog Author: Mrs Russell

Today we all wore our own clothes in Chestnut Class, and wore something red!

We enjoyed a music session this morning where we played along to the song 'It's good to be me'. 

We spoke about how we are all different and that's great!!!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend Chestnut…

In Chestnut Class this week, we made some cute Easter Cards for our familiies.

We squeezed a yellow blob of paint onto the middle of our card and then used a fork to spread the paint out. Once we had done this we stuck on 2 eyes and an orange beak, to make a super cute Easter chick!!! We can't…

Chestnut Class have had a lovely week settling back into our routine.

We have enjoyed playing with our friends, exploring our fancy new outdoor area, and getting very busy with fun activities!

We have also been getting glittery whilst making our special cards for Mother's Day. We hope they…

This Week, Chestnut Class have continued to look at the book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. 

We have enjoyed listening to the story, trying some of the food that the caterpillar ate, exploring different leaves and herbs in our tuff tray, and making some super caterpillar crafts!!

On Thursday…

This week in Chestnut Class, we have been reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

We have enjoyed making our own caterpillars, exploring the fruit that the caterpillar ate in the story, counting the fruit, and having fun in our sensory story tuff tray. We even went on our very own bug…

This week at Astley Park School, we have been looking at we have been celebrating diversity within our families entitled ‘Different Families, Same Love’.

In Chestnut Class we have been looking at our family books and pictures of our families.

We then saw our friends on our video call and…

What another busy week for Chestnut Class!

We have been carrying on with our beach theme in Class. We have all been busy building sandcastles, making huge ice-creams from different materials and decorating them, pretending to be crabs and click-clacking with instruments, and making handprint…

The children in Chestnut have been using a little wishful thinking this week and exploring ‘The Beach’.

In Class we really enjoyed a funny Ice Cream Splat session. We each got a turn to splat Miss Heaton’s ice creams until there were none left!!!

We then had a go at following instructions…

It's been another busy week for the Chestnut Class children. Lets see what our home learners have been up to ...

Austin has been developing his fine motor skills doing lots of fun activities, such as playdoh gym. 

Bobby has been getting busy in the kitchen baking yummy cakes!!

It has been…

Chestnut Class have had a lovely time over the past few weeks getting Christmassy. We have been like busy little elves making lots of crafts to take home at the end of term. We have all done super listening whilst developing our fine motor skills, to make lovely gifts for our families. We can’t…

Chestnut Class have all been very happy to be back in school and we have had a great week!

We have had lots of fun exploring our new classroom and getting to know the new adults in class. 

We have enjoyed a relaxation session every morning where we listen to music, watch bubbles, squeeze…

Chestnut Class are still on the theme of ‘Animals’ and we have all been having lots of fun at home this past couple of weeks, focusing on ‘Mini beasts’.

We have looked at the stories ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Superworm’ and then been getting busy with lots of themed activities.

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