The children will take part in a range of fun activities to help them learn about this special celebration, including making dragon cupcakes, dragon masks, and enjoying the story Peppy Pigs’ Chinese New Year.

Our story of the week will be Jonty Gentoo, which the children will explore through stories, play, and creative activities. We will also have winter-themed tuff trays set up with a variety of winter animals, including a fun matching game for the children to enjoy.

The children also loved rolling in the leaves, down the hill; nearly the Honeypot building.

The children have enjoyed spotting the other scarecrows around the village and looking on the map at the different scarecrows.

In our activity, the children matched the colours of different pompoms and felt pieces with the use of tweezers, to promote their fine motor skills and by using pots with lids that twist for our larger motor movements. We did this whist discussing what emotions they were sorting, and they were able to associate the colours with what emotion they represent.

We have also discovered how to express different emotions in Makaton sign language; such as happy, sad, calm, scared, angry and love. We actively used these signs when talking about feelings, and it's been great to see the children picking up the Makaton signs and starting to remember & use them.

On our Blue room board, the children helped to colour-in our big Colour Monster poster. We also spoke about the different colours they were using, what they could see and what 'Colour Monster' they had made.

We’ve been exploring animals who live in the cold, and talking a little about hibernation of animals, like frogs. We have explored the ice that formed outside (where it was so cold last week), and have been looking at how ice turns to water and how water turns to ice; using the vocabulary of 'freezing' and 'melting'.