Castle Room News

Over the next two weeks, we will be focusing on Understanding the World as we explore early technology with programming language or our unplugged programming cards, a step-by-step process of what to do with sequential language of 'first, next, after and finally'.

This week on the creative table we will be using a mixture of skills to create something special. The children will be using paint with their hands and also brushes whilst using their fine motor skills to cut and stick. We will focus on following a step-by-step guide, using the language of first, next and finally. We may observe a friend first and see if we can then follow the same sequence of events.

Our first book of the week will be Giraffe's Can't Dance, the story of Gerald the Giraffe who doesn't know how to dance. What will happen when he builds up the courage to go to the jungle dance but gets laughed at instead? Here is the film adaptation of the book to share at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5R0srX0GBA  Our keywords for this book are; Giraffe, can't/don't, dance, scared, brave and beautiful.

Our Second Book of the Week is Mr Macgregor's Eggs, the story of a farmer who can't start his day without his morning egg. But after a series of traffic jams, however, will they solve the issue, so everyone can get on with our day. We will talk about the sequence of the traffic jam and copy the sounds of the different characters in the queue. Our keywords from this story are: First, Last, Next, Egg, Easter egg, Traffic, and queue.

Our Song of the Week will be 10 Little Easter Eggs, a song where we count up to ten eggs in groups of three until we get to number 10!