*STARS OF THE WEEK*

***I am so kind….***

Alivia - You have been so lovely this week guiding Finley to the old garden and helping Aniyah to put her shoes on,

plus much,much more!

Casper - You have been so lovely with the little ones this week, doing as the grown-ups ask to help them but also doing lovely thing to show you are aware of their needs without being asked.

Bodhi - You made the most amazing transformer from mobilo, which Alfred really liked so you made him one too,

he was so pleased with it!

Dear Parents,

The children absolutely loved making their faces and were very good at finding the correct eye and hair colour.  The older children were able to compare themsleves with other members of their family and Rebecca was very impressed by their pencil control when colouring in their eyes, drawing their noses, mouths and ears.  They look amazing up on the Pebbles wall.

Tallying was introduced to the older children when we worked out how many children and grown-ups had green, blue or brown eyes.  The children were able to work out that on Tuesday that there were the most brown eyes and and the least green.

On Wednesday we had our first visit to the forest school site, now that all the new children are well and truely settled in.  We found one of the apple trees had a wealth of good sized apples that we picked lots of (so we could eat them for afternoon snack) and then there were two more trees that had a few small apples that we picked for a taste comparison.  Each single child tried all three apples and again we produced a tally to show which one was our favourite.  It was the Braburn.  The children used some excellent taste related words to describe the apples - sour, sweet, juicy, crunchy, 'these ones look like pears' one child sound referring to the colouring of the apple's skin.

Next week our focus will be on 'Diwali', a child led focus as Alfred found a book on it a little while ago and we discovered it was celebrated next week. This topic gives us the oportunity to colour rice and decide which primary colours we need to use to make orange and green.  We will create a Rangoli pattern with the rice and then it will be used in the builders tray for transferring from container to container introducing the use of funnels. We will be employing Mandy's skills as a potter as she will be making diwali pots out of air drying clay which the children to bring home.  We will also bring a musical element to the week, listening to Diwali music, seeing if we can recreate it with our instruments and thinking about musical repetition.

Have a lovely weekend. 

The Pebbles team.