Blog by Tag: EYFS

This week we have been learning all about the weather. We explored ice, rainbow rice,  shined torches in the dark den, cloud paintings and rain pictures. We had some captivating attention autism sessions, we got wet in the rain and went under the brolly whilst singing and listening to thunder…

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…

We have made some lovely Mother’s Day cards and biscuits for all our super mummy’s this week. We hope you like them! 
 

Mrs Barrand, Mrs Banks, Miss Holden, Ms Goonan

This week Beech class have looked at Jack and the beanstalk. We have explored lots of sensory trays; beans, green spaghetti, oats and dry spaghetti. We explored with paint in our wellies and created a giant bean stalk. We enjoyed exploring the characters from Jack and the beanstalk too. Well done…

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…

Today Beech class celebrated world book day. We chose to look at The very hungry caterpillar book. We had some lovely sensory trays that we enjoyed playing in including flour, fruit tasting, gloop and playdoh. We made our own “that’s not my caterpillar “ pages  using different textures underneath…

Beech class have begun their new topic growth and change and so this week have been looking at the hungry caterpillar story. We have done lots of activities related to the story and had lots of fun exploring them. We have chopped fruit from the story, counted the caterpillar parts, painted…

Beech class celebrated making a huge rainbow during their attention autism session and having lots of colourful interesting items in our box . Each child chose a colour and added to the big rainbow each one differently. Well done Beech class. 
 

Mrs Barrand, Miss Holden, Mrs Banks, Ms…

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…

We have explored pink and red paints making some lovely paintings. We enjoyed our strawberry and cream sensory tray with marsh mallows and sprinkles and some lovely pink foam. Well done. 
 

Mrs Barrand, Mrs Banks, Ms Goonan, Miss Holden. 
 

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…