Autumn Term 2024

We begin our Academic Year looking at "All About Me!" and the season of Autumn. 

Our family wall has grown as we share photos of our families. This has helped our children settle in and share lots about the people that are special to them. 

All about me, explore who we are by getting to know each other, create new friends and learn about ourselves, our communities and some seasonal celebrations. 

We will share stories such as "Things I like" by Anthony Browne, "You choose" by Nick Sharratt, "Peace at Last" by Jill Murphy, "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell and "Leaf Man"  by Lois Ehlert. An exciting and changing time of year where we have festival of Diwali, Fire Works, Remembrance, Samhain/Halloween and the festive season of Christmas.

We look forward to the term ahead and sharing our journey with you.

Owl Babies - Martin Waddell

The children took our book of the week and had an amazing time exploring it in so many different ways.

They created a collaborative owl collage using different materials and developing skills such as cutting, tearing, rolling, folding and dapping. Painting once again was popular as we explored making autumn colours and discovering how different colours are made. 

With owl baby puppets children retold the story and discussions of where Mummy owl had gone, about where they lived and the story continued through the week. We practised subitising with 3 baby owls. 

Things I like

As we are settling into our new school year we have welcomed new children into preschool. We are now onto our full sessions. Our focus has been on our Personal, Social and Emotional Skills, developing friendships, turn taking, expressing and identifying emotions and understanding the rules and boundaries within Koala class. We have been sharing the story "Things I like" by Anthony Browne and talking about our families. 

It has been a lovely positive start as we learn about each other and create our community.