The Hive

This week we have been looking at lots of different patterns. We have matched patterned mittens, made repeating patterns on scarves and used the polar animals to make patterns in the ‘playdough snow’! Great!

This week we have been looking at comparisons. We weighed penguins, exploring ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’. We ordered penguins in size order looking at ‘bigger and smaller’ Some of us worked on our number bonds to 10 matching the penguins and their eggs to find the correct number bond and some of us counted buttons on snowmen. We had a big challenge to order the snowmen according to the number, array and numicon pattern! Phew we have been very busy!

In the Hive this week, we have been looking at winter weather and the clothes we need to wear to keep warm. We made snow men with the glittery playdough and lots of super snowflakes.

In the Hive we have enjoyed exploring penguin facts and making some super penguin collages. We found out about different kinds of penguins, our favourites were the Macaroni penguins with their big bushy yellow eyebrows!

We started our advent activities this week, which the children have enjoyed. We also have been practising singing and signing our nativity songs and story using our knitted characters and small wooden figures too. It’s certainly starting to feel a little Christmassy here in 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.