Chestnut

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…

This week in Chestnut Class our theme has been 'The Countryside'.

In class, Alex has been counting of all our farm animals and sorting big, medium, and small.

We have all been getting musical and enjoyed singing ‘Old Macdonald Had A Farm’ during what's in the box. LeBron did really well…

Wow, what a busy week Chestnut Class have had!! 

Alex did great work on Education City, did lots of reading, and loved playing on the scooter board. Benedict did lovely vocalising during Intensive Interaction with Miss Beck and has made fantastic progress during his changing routine. George…

Happy New Year Everyone!

What a busy first week back in Chestnut Class!! We have been getting creative and exploring Winter trays.

Alex really enjoyed making a egg carton snowman and playing book shop with Miss Howarth. 

Benedict loved playing out in the snow with Mrs…

We have brilliant news for Chestnut class- this week we have welcomed a new member of staff to our team- Miss Howarth. We are all very excited and the children in school have enjoyed getting to know her. Miss Howarth can’t wait to meet everyone who is learning at home and would like to tell you a…

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…

What a busy week we’ve had in Chestnut Class. We’ve been exploring lots of fun Christmas activities. During continuous provision we’ve been getting messy with our igloo snow scene made with flour and glitter, and have been using our fine motor skills to colour some beautiful Christmas pictures. We…

Chestnut Class continued to explore more toys this week. We have been counting people onto a toy bus and labelling how many people are at the bus stop. Some of us got creative and even made our very own bus from a plastic milk bottle, red paint, glue and black card, they looked fabulous!

We…