Chestnut

This week has been 'Sports Week' at Astley Park.

We have started our mornings off with some dancing to warm up our bodies, ready for our activities.

On Monday we had lots of fun in an egg and spoon race, we even had to move carefully around obstacles. 

We enjoyed practising our throwing,…

Today, Chestnut Class have celebrated Italy.

We all wore the colours red, green or white, and listened to some traditional Italian music.

For 'What's in the Box', Miss Beck made a big Italian flag out of all different sensory materials.

Chestnut class then all had a go at decorating our…

Chestnut Class have all been happy to be back at school after the half term holidays.

Yesterday we watched Miss Heaton do a super colourful 'What's in the Box'. She put lots of paper towels in a tray and then used pipettes with different coloured water to make marks. It was fun to watch and…

May is 'National Share a Story' month, and this year the theme is 'Myths, Magic & Mayhem'.

To celebrate this in Chestnut class, this week we have been looking at the book 'Room on the Broom', by Julia Donaldson.

We have listened to the story and the song, made our own potions, pretended to…

This week, Chestnut Class have been looking at animal homes.

We have been reading the story 'Oh Dear', all about looking for hen's eggs around the farm in different animal homes.

We also got busy mark making using different animals in paint to make footprints.

On Wednesday we had a…

This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week.

In Chestnut Class we have enjoyed some lovely, calming time in the great outdoors, and doing relax sessions in class.

We have been enjoying our outdoor area, listening to the birds and playing in the fresh air.

We have also been for lots of…

Yesterday, Chestnut Class got busy learning about Eid.

We enjoyed an Attention Austism where Miss sprinkled sand and drew a moon and a star, and then sprinkled blue rice to make the sky.

Afterwards we all got creative, painting a paper plate blue for the sky, and painting a moon and star…

Chesnut Class have enjoyed the theme of 'Bob the Builder' this week. 

We have done lots of building whilst counting and labeling the bricks, made some fantasic house pictures to use as touch and feel boards, and even looked at who lives in our houses!

We enjoyed 'What's in the Box' on…

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…

Chestnut Class have had a very exciting week learning all about ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. We have been exploring different materials and making pig houses out of straw, sticks and duplo, and pretending to blow them down. 

We all decorated a biscuit with pink icing and marsh mellows to make a pigs…

This week in Chestnut class we have been learning all about spring. We have used forks in different coloured paints to make tulip pictures, painted blossom trees using our fingers, dug in the soil filling the plant pots, and looked for worms in the soil. We have explored the school grounds with…

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…