Our topic for Autumn 2 was ‘Journeys’ and the children enjoyed learning what a journey is through books and exploratory sessions outside. Our two key texts, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ were very popular and lots of the children now know both books off by heart! The children started to learn and use lots of new vocabulary for geographical features such as hills, rivers, fields, caves, sea and have been introduced to maps. Learning all about and playing with farm animals was very popular too. In phonics we started the new Little Wandle Foundations scheme for Nursery and introduced the sounds s,a,t,p,i and n and focussed on learning to write our names. The children were introduced to one number every week, we have been practising counting, understanding ‘same and different’ and learning the names of basic 2D shapes.
We have also learned about the seasons and the signs of Autumn and Winter. We noticed the colours of the leaves change then fall off the trees on our out and about walks and in our Woodland School sessions. Thank you for bringing in so many bulbs. We planted them all in our garden and we cannot wait to see them grow into beautiful flowers in the Spring. We made lots of different Christmas crafts this half term. Thank you for coming to the Christmas concerts, we were very proud of the children for singing so well and hope you enjoyed them.
