Castle Room News

In the Castle Class over the next two weeks, we will be focusing on Understanding the World, looking closely at:
-The signs that the seasons are changing
-How the weather is changing too

We noticed our children loved our walk to the Bailgate and were talking about it all week as the walks were going on. To support this, we have recreated the walk in the classroom. We added buggies and Louis had his own high visibility jacket. We added the book from the walk and created check-in stations all around the room to visit the key locations. We will focus on sequential language of where first, next and last as we consolidated the language of the Lincolnshire locations.

We have noticed our children enjoy building their fine motor (smaller muscles) indoors, but outdoors they have less opportunity. To support this, we have added pumpkins. We will use hammers to carefully tap nails and tacks into the pumpkins, reminding ourselves how we KEEP SAFE with our helper hand glove and safety goggles. We will: tap, hammer, and hit the nails and tack, using gentle taps to position the nails, and hitting the nail with more force to sink the nails flush into the pumpkins, building on their bigger muscles. We will later add conkers and clamps to hammer and attach to wood.