Wow what a fun filled last week we have had in hedgehogs class. 

On Monday we had a fantastic time at our parents/carers craft session making reindeer food, melted snowman biscuits and candy cane Christmas trees. The children all had a brilliant time and a huge thank you to all who were able to come along. 

We had a brilliant time going swimming with all the children trying hard to get themselves undressed and dressed with lots of excitement! We enjoyed pouring water from the giant teapots over the giant ball in the pool, trying to see if we could get it to move. 

On Thursday we had our Christmas party day! We had lots of fun listening to and dancing to Christmas music and even had a game of reindeer dash. We had a special visitors as well as Father Christmas and his elf came to visit us and give us an early Christmas present. Our favourite part of the party day was definitely the party food though! 

What a lovely way to round up a busy but fun filled term. We hope that all the children and their families have a relaxing and fun Christmas holiday and we’ll see you all next year! 

This week in Hedgehogs we have all been getting in the Christmas spirit. We have really enjoyed learning lots of Christmas songs and dancing along to them as well! In music we had a great time banging the drum as a small group to our favourite Christmas songs and loved feeling the vibrations it made. 

In creativity, we have enjoyed making a winter picture thinking about what we may see in winter time such as snow covered trees, children wrapped up in hats, scarves and gloves, snowflakes etc. The pictures were all beautiful with really good choices in pictures and where to place them being made. 

We have been thinking about Christmas food… a lot this week so have had a go at making our very own Christmas pudding out of paper, but it looked good enough to eat! Then on Friday we had our yummy Christmas dinner. We all looked fantastic in the party hats we had designed and made and the dinner was a big hit! 

This week in Hedgehogs we started the week by continuing our work on police officer and the work they do to keep us safe.  We have enjoyed using choose it maker to take it in turns to watch the police officer catch the thief and save the day. We then had a go at creating our very own police car and all recognised where to put the siren. 

As part of our problem solving we have been pretending to be police officers and have been using our fingerprints to practice counting out to different amounts and show 1:1 correspondence. 

On Friday we have started thinking about Christmas and have decorated our own baubles to hang on our tree that we are making. We have thought about the colours that we could use to make our classroom feel festive! For our bucket session on Friday we had a special session about creating a snowman that we all really enjoyed. Finally, we have been learning the makaton signs for Christmas words such as Father Christmas, snow, turkey and brussel sprouts! 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and will see you all on Monday 🦔