Foundation Stage 2

Week 1:

This week we started our ‘Once Upon a Time’ topic, learning about one of the children’s favourite stories, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We learnt key vocabulary linked to the story including, ‘aid’, ‘avoid’, ‘waded’ and ‘suggestion’ and created actions linked to these words. We watched a video of the Gingerbread Man sneaking into our classroom and created wanted posters and maps of the local environment to help locate him! We also created secret traps! 

Week 3:

We continued our ‘Once Upon a Time’ topic by learning about The Three Little Pigs. We worked collaboratively to create houses using a range of different materials. We predicted which house we thought was the strongest and reasons why. I encouraged the children to use vocabulary we have learnt, including ‘construct’, ‘flimsy’ and ‘sturdy’.
We then put our predictions to the test by attempting to blow the houses down, just like the big bad wolf! 

This activity required the children to listen to each other’s ideas and take them on board. There were some disagreements along the way but with encouragement and support, the children were able to come to an agreement.

Week 5:

This week we celebrated National Storytelling week by inviting family members into the classroom as Mystery Readers! The children listened to stories about penguins and Tiddler the fish! A great week, we are now very excited for our visits to Compton Library in the coming days!

Week 6:

This week we held a Wonderful Writers meeting for parents. We talked about the progression of skills linked to writing and physical development and the parents had a fantastic opportunity to put into practice what they had learnt when working alongside their child.