What can we see? What can we hear? We've had lots of fun finding out. A visit from our mobile library gave us an opportunity to choose new stories to share with our friends. We always enjoy visiting the library, checking books out and back in again, fascinated by the floor to ceiling shelves of books all around, creating a little world we are always excited to explore. Stories and more stories have been eagerly listened to, pictures studied again and again, with favourites chosen by the children to be enjoyed by all.
Sound of the week is 'p' and we've all been enjoying Steph's singing session with Peter and Pig. After a warm up of turn taking, blowing both feathers and a pinwheel, we practiced the sound. With the help of mirrors, we felt the air hit our hands as we made the sound. Fun songs of Peek-a-boo and Peepo helped us practice further.
Our sound of the week follows the Phase 1 Letters and Sounds Phonics programme. Practicing phoneme sounds helps our children build a solid foundation for understanding the English language to enable reading and writing. Phonemes are the smallest unit of sounds in the English language. They come together to form words, and breaking words down into phonemes helps children understand how they’re sounded out. Here at Stepping Stones we focus on Phase one of the Phonics programme, enabling our children to gain an understanding of environmental sounds and voice sounds. They’ll also start to learn about oral blending and segmenting words into phonemes. All designed to provide our pre-schoolers with the skills they'll need for a successful start at school.
Play with puppets prompted play with the theatre, we all enjoyed 'squeak' from the mole, 'twit-twoo' from the owl and a much edited version of the Gruffalo story, created by the children, featuring an additional character, Mr Potato Head. With all of the conversations about our senses and features, Potato Head families have been created in abundance this week, with laughter and glee as 'mr grumpy' was made, alongside some very unusual looking potatoes.
We've also been exploring outside in the village with a wonderful walk to Claverdon Church, in readiness for joining in the Harvest Festival during October. Decorated stones, pine cones and colourful leaves were seen as we slowly made our way along the tree lined paths and across to a warm welcome from local flower arrangers creating wonderful autumnal arrangements within the church. The children were fascinated looking at all of the leaves, stems and berries. The beautiful stained glass windows wow'ed and we were all in awe of the height and scale of the nave. The children were very enthusiastic to practice their Harvest song, so treated everyone to a rendition. It has proven a very popular song with the children and has been sung throughout the week, inside and out, to everyone's delight.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Chug, chug, chugging along.
Cutting the corn.
Combine harvester.
Cutting the corn.
Combine harvester.
Cutting the corn.
Combine Harvester.
Chug, chug, chugging along.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Big, red, combine harvester.
Chug, chug, chugging along.
WOW!
We also had fun using our ears with sound games. Where is the sound coming from? what is it? with the aid of a blind fold we tried to find out. Pointing to the sound, 'it's a shaker!' 'there- it's there!' 'bells!' 'noisy'. We all tried to stay quiet as our friend's took it in turns to play.
There's also been lots of big muscle movement, tyre lifting and rolling, jumping and crawling, running and galloping, inside and out. Cool Sportz and free play, answering 'I wonder...' questions with 'let's find out...'. Moving our bodies to see if we can fit through a hoop, tip toe to not wake the sleeping Gruffalo and dodge the ball as it rolls towards us. It's been another week of action and we are all looking forward to next week as we celebrate Harvest and then take a trip into space.
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