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Pumpkins

Songs, books & dates in October

Songs

5 Little pumpkins

Dingle dangle scarecrow

Autumn leaves

Old Joe Badger

Incy wincy spider

Head, shoulders, knees & toes

Tommy Thumb

Eyes, nose, cheeky chin

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Books

That's not my bat

That's not my squirrel

Room on the broom

We're going on a bear hunt

We're going on a pumpkin hunt

Gruffalo

Scarecrows wedding

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Dates

5th October - Grandparent's Day

16th October - World Food Day

17th October - World Pasta Day

20th October - Diwali

31st October - Halloween

Brown Bear

What we will be learning

Our younger children will be working on their fine motor skills as well as independent skills learning to self feed with spoons.

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The children in our 1-2 and 2-3 rooms will be learning about animals who hibernate such as bears and making some fabulous artwork from this. They will also be exploring lots of autumnal crafts and sensory trays as well as Halloween themed crafts.

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Our older children will be continuing their topic of the body by looking at different movements such as throwing and catching as well as hop scotch.

Halloween Lights

Some of our activities

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This month, the children will be doing lots of fabulous Halloween crafts in the room. Our youngest children will be painting pumpkins, and creating footprint ghosts. They will also be celebrating Diwali be painting lanterns.

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Our 1-2 children will be doing some autumnal baking as well as watching the changes in the season in our outdoor play and collecting leaves.

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The children in the 2-3 room will be doing lots of fabulous arts and crafts, potato printing, pine cone decorating, and making some scarecrow paintings. They will also explore the nursery grounds on the look out for pine cones and leaves.

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Our older children will be creating lots of fabulous Halloween crafts, going on Forest School trips, and delivering our Food Bank donations.

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