Ladybirds: Welly Walk & Pumpkin Soup

As I’m sure you know now I am “Mr” Peter and I have really enjoyed getting to know your children over the last two weeks. 

We have been very busy since the start of the term.  Lots and lots of stories, particularly our focus text of Pumpkin Soup.  We have also read The Cat in the Hat, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Lost and Found and many others.  I like the children to get very involved and encourage them to join in when they know the text and to try and remember what’s going to happen next when they get more familiar with it. 

We have been looking at grouping in maths and introducing language such as “more than” and “less than” and identifying differences in groups – size and shape.  We regularly look at number and sing songs to encourage counting with one to one correspondence such as Buns in the Bakers Shop. 

In response to the Pumpkin Soup story we made the soup getting the children as involved as possible and we all had some for snack afterwards. 

I am very keen on arts and crafts. The children have been making wreaths using vine tendrils that they have decorated and have used them as a frame for leaf prints they have been making. 

Because there is no single day when all the children are in at the same time it is not always possible for every child to engage with every activity.  Despite this all the children have made wreaths and leaf prints.  Most recently we have been on a welly walk which was great and we collected a lot of natural treasures (leaves, cones, interesting twigs) that we will be using to make clay relief plaster casts.  

We are looking forward to a lot more fun and creativity for the rest of the term.