Week beginning 13th July
Before I begin planning for the week I need to say a big thank you.
Thank you to the children for their enthusiasm, confidence, trust, enjoyment, learning and incredible resilience in the face of so many changes.
Thank you to the parents and families for their trust, friendship, support and engagement.
Thank you to the staff who have all worked incredibly hard throughout the year to give the children the best experience possible and have continued to plan and provide lots of wonderful opportunities in sometimes challenging circumstances.
Some of you may be leaving us this week, however, you will always be a special member of the Chesterton community. Please move forward with confidence and belief in yourself, you are set to achieve incredible things.
Describe and find it
- Set up a model farmyard. Describe one of the animals but do not tell the children its name. Say, for example: This animal has horns, four legs and a tail.
- Ask them to say which animal it is. Ask them to make the noise the animal might make. Children can then have a go giving their own descriptions.
- This activity can be repeated with other sets of objects such as zoo animals, toy sets based on transport (e.g. aeroplane, car, train, bus, boat) and musical instruments. It can be made more challenging by introducing sets of random objects to describe and name.
Enlivening stories
Involve the children in songs and stories, enlivened by role-play, props and repeated sounds, for example acting out:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall (bump, crash, bang!)
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men (gallop, gallop, gallop)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again (boo, hoo, boo, hoo, boo, hoo).
Whatever you choose, wherever you go, always remember how special you are.
We have been exploring sculpture, using language such as roll, squash, mould, flatten, splat, sculpt and shape. We have been thinking about the things we would like to create and the shapes we will need.
