Welcome to EYFS Autumn Term 24-25
The Colour Monster- What makes us happy and sad?
In our first week, we have been sharing the Colour Monster book. We spoke about how different coloured monsters linked with different emotions and feelings. In groups, we were asked to draw monsters, use colours, and record some of our ideas about things that make us happy and things that make us sad.
School Disco
Early years had a fantastic party! They enjoyed dancing with their friends and enjoyed their hot dogs.
Comparing Size
In Maths we have been learning about comparing size. Today we looked at comparing length and height. We looked at different resources and spoke about which were taller, shorter or longer.
World Mental Health Day
To celebrate World Mental Health Day, we discussed different emotions and how we can help to make ourselves feel good. We reflected back on when we shared the colour monster story and which feelings were good ones, we agreed that calm and happiness were positive feelings. We then spoke about which colours these were: green and yellow and that is why some of us had wore yellow today. Miss. Dodds tasked us with making our own well being wands using natural materials, we went outside and found different yellow and green leaves to create our wands. After spending some time outside, we enjoyed a nice warm hot chocolate.
Firework Science
We have been learning about fireworks. Today the children created their own “fireworks” in a jar. We started by talking about liquids and that liquids can dissolve within other liquids and can be heavier or lighter. We added food colouring into oil and noticed that they did not dissolve and floated. So we mixed them up with a fork to make the droplets smaller. Then we added the oil to a cup of water. The children noticed that the oil floated to the top of the water. Then the food colouring started to come out of the oil and mix with the water below creating fireworks. The children noticed that the colours started to mix together to create different colours and we talked about this.
Scooter Fun!
We had great fun learning how to ride the scooters, we spoke about keeping safe by always wearing a helmet too. Great scooting.
Balance Bike Training
We had our first session with Wheel Education. Jason told how to get on our balance bikes and we played different games. We pretended to be stomping elephants and slow tortoises. We then had to try and cross the river without being chomped by the crocodiles.
Autumn Wreaths
As part of our learning about Autumn, we enjoyed an outdoor activity where we made our own autumn wreaths. We had to weave the wool around the wreath and then add on our autumn decorations.
Black History Month
For Black History month, we learnt about 3 famous people from the past. We talked about Mae Jemison the first black astronaut to go to space. The children made a new rocket for Mae in the construction area and pretended to travel to space. The children were then told the story of Garrett Morgan the inventor of the amber traffic light. To understand why he created the amber light the children enjoyed using cars and running making sure to pay attention to the traffic lights to know when to stop, slow down and go. Finally the children learned about Alfred Cralle, the inventor of the ice cream scoop. The children used Pom poms as ice cream to use both a spoon and an ice cream scoop to investigate why he had created the scoop.
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Sound hunt
Today we were introduced to phonics, we spoke about how sounds help us to talk and there were lots of sound around us. We went outside for a sound hunt where we heard an aeroplane in the sky, crunchy leaves and even some builders nearby. We then went on a sound hunt, finding different letters that made different sounds.
Our Autumn Walk
Early Years had a fantastic morning exploring our school grounds to help us learn more about Autumn. We talked about how the weather is changing and how the leaves are starting to fall from trees. We spoke about how this is because it is not as sunny and it is becoming colder. We had great fun looking for beautiful autumn coloured leaves and some of us were really interested in matching them up on our tree sheet. We loved being out in our wellies and waterproofs and some of us even enjoyed a roll down the hill at the end! We all had great fun.
Scarecrow building
The children have been learning the song "Dingle Dangle Scarecrow" this week. Today we created our own scarecrows. The children worked in groups and helped to dress the scarecrow and to stuff the clothing with hay. The children enjoyed singing the song as we created them to remember the different parts we would need. Once the scarecrows were created the children drew on a face. Finally we all sat as a group to sing the song with the scarecrows.
Marshmallow Maths
In true bonfire spirit, we used marshmallows for our maths today! We spoke about the meaning of one more and one less and then counted out our marshmallows. We then went on to add one more at a time to the skewers, we were able to say how many there were as we went. We then did one less, and counted as we took them off the skewer. We of course enjoyed eating them at the end of our maths job! We then were tasked with recording this in our books, we were very confident at counting and with support recorded the correct number.
