Sycamore

Today Sycamore have been learning about gender stereotypes.

First we spoke about what a stereotype is - we learned that a stereotype is an idea or view that someone believes that might not be true.

We then enjoyed a carpet time activity watching Miss Cross make outlines of a boy and a girl.…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed a fun-filled day learning about Diwali.

Sycamore have been learning different facts about Diwali. We found out that:

• Diwali is a very important festival celebrated by many people around the world.
• Diwali is celebrated by Hindu’s but can be celebrated by…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed learning about Children in Need and celebrating through lots of activities. 

We learned that: 

• Children in Need is used to help to raise money for children in need. 
• Children in need are children not as lucky as us. We said it can be children who don’t…

Sycamore have enjoyed a day of activities themed around ‘Remembrance Day’. 

This morning we enjoyed a circle time and we shared our ideas and what we remember about Remembrance Day. We then had our 2 minutes silence to remember all the soldiers who have fought in wars to help keep us…

On Thursday, Sycamore had fun in class celebrating bonfire night with crafts and exploring some popular traditions. 

First we collected sticks on a regulation walk, exploring outside, that we used later in the afternoon to help Miss Cross build our own ‘fire’. 

We explored…

Sycamore’s Spook-tacular Week!

Sycamore class have had great fun within our Halloween theme, this week. 

They have been very busy:

• Working together to count out ingredients to add to the magic potions.
• Using words and gestures to request shapes to create faces on…

Sycamore have had a very busy week continuing their learning in their ‘All About Me’ topic. We have continued to learn about our new classroom and friends, talking about our likes and dislikes and thinking about what we have in common too. 

This week our learning has had a bigger focus on…

This week we have been learning about our bodies and ways that we can keep healthy. We have been exploring lots of exercises and movements that help keep our minds and bodies healthy. We have also talked about how the activities have made our engines feel, using the Alert Programme.

On…

This week Sycamore had a special celebration. It was Williams birthday!

William brought a yummy chocolate cake to share with his friends and we all sang happy birthday to him.

Sycamore were very happy with the birthday cake treat for snack time and gave it a huge thumbs up.

Happy Birthday…

Today we have celebrated Macmillan Coffee Morning.

It was a new and exciting day for us all as it was the first time, we have had our own cake, drinks and activities in class!

We enjoyed a ‘What’s in the Box’ activity and sang the ‘five currant buns’ song. Some of us had a 
turn to decorate…

What a fantastic week Sycamore Class have had now we are all back together – it is great to see lots of friendships forming so soon. 

• This week we have continued to learn our teachers and our friend’s names, but it has been even trickier because now there are 11 children and 3 teachers.…

We have has lots of fun keeping busy in Sycamore this week. 

• We have continued our learning of our friends names in our bubbles and our teachers too - we have got much better remembering and saying our friends names when we want to talk to them.
• We have been out and about exploring around…