Author: Liz Allen

….to use fine and gross motor movements with confidence, purpose and joy
According to The Chief Medical Officer, children under 5 need 180 minutes of physical activity each day. See www.bit.ly/startactive
This term we are getting active. We will be building and attempting our own obstacle course, and imitating and creating movements through joining in with action songs and rhymes.
We will be dancing to different types of music. This week we have been dancing to music from all around the world. We will be learning and using new words to describe our movements.

This term in
Oak room we are
learning...

….to use mark making to represent a journey or route and beginning to use some positional language to communicate our ideas.
Linked to our core story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, we will be acting out and re-telling the story in the garden and starting to map our journey. We will be using positional language to talk about our route and the ways we move over different obstacles. Where will the bear be hiding? Under the bridge? Over the hill? Behind the pond? Watch Michael Rosen performing We're Going on a Bear Hunt on YouTube
We will also be reading Martha Maps it out by Leigh Hodgkinson, looking at Google Earth, exploring maps and globes and thinking about where we live and what is in our local area.

….to explore different mouth movements to create sounds.
This term we are exploring voice sounds. We are going on listening walks in the garden. What sounds can we hear? Can we reproduce those sounds? What language can we use to describe the sounds – tweeting, twittering, rumbling, roaring, stamping etc.
We will be singing, playing sound games (such as sound bingo), creating different voices when telling stories, and describing sounds and actions—BOING, BOING goes the ball. Wheeee! Down the slide. Shhhh, let’s hide.
Find out what noises keep Mr Bear awake in Peace at Last!
Explore time / Circle time - Make up our own sounds and record them to play back.
Use microphone to amplify sounds and encourage reticent speakers.
Circle time activities linked to alliteration, rhymes and noticing and clapping syllables in names/words (ichity tichity bumble bee, can you CLAP your name for me?)
Story time – linked story Whatever Next! Noticing and reproducing different environmental sounds

Coronation Celebrations
We will be celebrating the coronation of King Charles 3rd on Tuesday 9th and Thursday 11th May.
The children can dress up and wear something RED, WHITE and BLUE.
Parents and carers are invited to come and join us in the garden from 1.30pm on one of the days (weather permitting). Feel free to bring along a picnic (and blanket).
Come and join the fun!