The Hive

We tried some quiet reflection times this week to mark Remembrance Day. We had some quiet calm music and we held poppies together. The children enjoyed some poppy arts and crafts and some poppy repeating patterns. We used poppies of varying sizes to compare and order sizes and had a go at some poppy fine motor control activities too.

This week we have loved finding out about owls and sharing the owl babies story. Again story spoons have been a favourite to join in with telling the story. Some of us have written super speech bubbles and some of us have labelled an owl with support. We have enjoyed some owl crafts and paintings including a wonderful traced painting that one young lady completed beautifully.

We have enjoyed our woodland stories in the den this week, sharing stories about hedgehogs, bears and of course the Gruffalo. We love using the story spoons to retell The Gruffalo and matching the characters to the pictures.

We have enjoyed some Autumn craft to accompany our Autumn songs. We have looked at pictures of scarecrows and made our own sticky scarecrows. We have loved playing the instruments to our songs in our music and movement sessions too. Some of us have enjoyed counting the Autumn treasures and matching the amounts to the correct numerals.

We have enjoyed exploring our spirituality windows, mirrors and doors this week and looking at our spirituality bubbles.

Lots of maths learning this week. We have been exploring number order, counting and correlating accurately and finding one more and one less. We have looked at the symbols for greater than and less than and compared numbers.

Some of us have been investigating different groups of objects and sorting by different criteria.

We have enjoyed exploring place value and using the different manipulatives to show our workings. What a busy week!

It’s been another great week this week in The Hive! We have been looking at how we grow and change. We love looking at ourselves in the mirrors! We have looked at adults and their young, both in humans and animals, and matched the animal babies on the farm. We have enjoyed looking at farm and animal books and stories together too

Lots of physical development activities this week to strengthen our core as well as being great at helping us to regulate and practise sharing and turn taking too!

We have also begun to look for early signs of Autumn, making Autumn tree pictures, patterns with the felt leaves and exploring our Autumn treasures collected on our travels. Another super week!

It has been wonderful to welcome back the children and see them recognising some familiar faces and exploring the environment.

We have been exploring our faces using mirrors, looking at our features and naming them. We have enjoyed making faces using the magnets and singing songs and rhymes about ourselves.

We have had fun in the home corner making breakfast for each other and taking turns to look after the baby!