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
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.
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.