This week we have focused on Christmas! Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities:

• making Christmas cards for family
• creating two festive display boards
• lots of mark making in various forms: water painting, wipe board marking, pencils, pens, tracing patterns
• making festive wreaths
• having fun in our role play santas workshop
• creating stories with our small world tuff tray
• lots of matching games
• learning about different 2d shapes and their properties
• lotto games and puzzles
• threading letter beads and matching letters to letter cards
• name writing practice and practice finding and recognising own name
• lots of listening games, songs and rhymes
• dancing to Christmas music
• lots of dressing up fun
• mark making/emergent writing on Christmas cards
• making up stories with soft toys
• making shapes with play dough
• counting games, songs and rhymesplaying games with balls outside
• playing on bikes and scooters outside
• building models with duplo
• lots of fine motor activities to help develop hand strength
• measuring different heights of children
• listening to lots of stories

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our topic.
For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam

Home Learning Activities
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