Blog by Tag: PSED

We arranged harvest vegetables to create still life art. We worked together as a team to place the vegetables in position before using an iPad to take our own photographs of our art work. 

In maths this week we have been learning how to subitise amounts up to 3. The children are great at recognising the numerals and we are now recognising regular patterns. We worked with our friends in a group to roll the dice and shout the amount we saw, we then completed an action to match that…

We have been learning all about the signs of Autumn. We then used our senses to go on an Autumn walk and describe what we see, feel and hear. The children loved exploring the school grounds! We collected leaves, sticks and brought them back to explore in the classroom. 

We were very lucky to…

We went on a walk around our school environment to observe signs of autumn. We discussed the weather, the changes we could see to the trees and we also discussed the warm clothes we were wearing. We noticed lots of the trees in our school grounds had started to change colour, and the leaves had…

We have been exploring different ways to make sounds with our bodies! We cam up with tapping, stomping, clapping, patting and much more! 

We have loved making the sounds together and exploring loud, quiet, fast and slow. 

We then used a steady beat to create movement to the music, we used…

We looked at images of Hanley in the past and present and compared the similarities and differences. We then sorted the images into groups based on our knowledge of how Hanley has changed over time.

We have been reading the story 'the Family Book' which has led to great discussions about who is in our family, and how they are different to our friends families. 

We completed a jigsaw on the table as a group and then discussed how each of the families in the picture were different. We looked…

In PE we have been focusing on listening and following instructions. The children have loved going into the hall and taking part in their PE lessons. We have spoke about the importance of listening and following instruction for our own safety and enjoyment. This week we played 'Sticky Kids…

We explored a lot of new resources today and how to use them. We discussed what a picture frame is and what we could use to decorate it. We had pom-poms, glitter, tissue paper, colours and lots more. The children independently chose what they would like to put on their picture frame and enjoyed…

We have been looking at the story Whatever Next! and today we used masks and props to role play different parts of the story. We pretended to be baby bear getting ready for his trip to the moon, baby bear in his rocket ship, baby bear and owl having a picnic on the moon and then mother bear…

This week we continued to recognise the numbers 0 and 1, we have now been learning about number 2. We recognised the numbers and started to represent them with objects. The children did amazing counting the correct amount of objects to match the numeral.