This week we have continued our Christmas craft, with lots of Christmas songs, and enjoying practicing for our nativity, making Christmas baubles with lots of glue and pretty sticky bits and using our Christmas stamps to make beautiful pictures. This encourages lovely conversations about what colours are our favourites and which shapes can go where.
We have really enjoyed the small world activities, we took the trains outside, and had lots of fun on the farm, the children took time to arrange the animals and chat to each other about their game and what to do next.
We have been cutting Christmas shapes in our festive coloured playdough, this is in preparation for making our Christmas biscuits next week. This encourages hand eye coordination and turn taking with the cutters.
We did a variety of wooden puzzles, with letters and numbers, this was good for reciting numbers, letters and identifying them out of sequence, working together to accomplish each task together.
We have been speaking to Alexa, we have asked how many sleeps until Christmas and have been asking for our favourite songs to sing and dance along to. This encourages lovely movement and body coordination, the children were able to recognise the rhythms and clap along to the beat.