The Hive

We had to move our campsite inside this week as it has been so wet and windy! We have enjoyed using the binoculars to look out to sea to see what we can see! Lots of songs and rhymes this week with some great actions and movements!  We have been designing sandcastles, looking at patterns and shapes and counting fish and shells. We have enjoyed lots of sensory play with our pirate island and enjoyed mark making in sand and rice.

Under the sea- we have enjoyed exploring our under the sea book den, listening to stories, looking at books and of course wearing the goggles!

We enjoyed Goldilocks and the three bears this week. Lots of story spoon retelling with the characters. We had fun looking at different sized chairs, bowls and cutlery and had a good try at ordering objects by size. In our crafty times we made different sized bears and Goldilocks and talked about where our legs and arms are on our bodies!  Lots of bear maths,  counting groups of bears and completing bear dot to dots. We also had a teddy bear’s picnic and practiced sharing the food and taking turns- it was quite tricky!

The Gingerbread man was our story focus this week. We enjoyed making gingerbread man puzzles, trying to take turns in a gingerbread man board game and decorating our own gingerbread men! In our outdoor space we enjoyed exploring chasing games – although we didn’t like being ‘caught’! Lots of number games with dice and ordering gingerbread men to 20 in our maths lessons too and some of us explored fractions, starting with sharing gingerbread men halves before moving onto other shapes!

What a lot of fun we have had with the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Some of us have enjoyed packing the basket full of goodies and putting on the red cloak to head off to Grandma’s house!  We have loved listening to the story on our Tonie box too. We have enjoyed challenges to make the pathway to Grandma’s house through the trees, watching out for the Big Bad Wolf on the way!

Off Jack went, climbing up the beanstalk, off Jack went, climbing high. Up, up, up, up, up, into the sky, sky, sky, into the sky! Lots of singing to the Jack and the beanstalk story this week. We made a giant castle for the sky! We did lots of beanstalk maths, counting magic beans, making number bond beanstalks and ordering beans to 20! We even planted some beans and dug them back up again and planted them again!  – I wonder if they will grow!

We have loved exploring the story of the Three little Pigs this week. Lots of role playing especially by the grown-ups! Puppets and story spoons have helped some of us to join in.

We have been super bug hunters this week and enjoyed finding worms in the garden. We have used our magnifying glasses and bug catchers to explore in the den. Some of us have written some super bug facts as we have found them out.