*STARS OF THE WEEK*

From now on 'Stars of the Week' will be included in the private email to parents.

Dear Parents,

Week 3 of Dinosaurs has focussed on our baby dinosaur and it's nest as well as playing our new dinosaur games which encouraged counting and number recognition.  The children also became palaeontologist playing the 'Dinosaur Dig' - finding the right parts of a dinosaur to build a T-Rex skeleton.  This game encouraged the children to read numbers to 5 as well as developing fine motor skills pulling out the parts with a pikaxes, matching and memory of colours and numbers, as well as observational skills and taking turns.

They were also palaeontologies when looking carefully in the sand for hidden dinosaur skulls, using brushes to gentle move the sand until they found them.

Our second new game is 'Dinosaur number eggs' which encourage counting and number recognition to 10, observation and taking turns.

The children made dinosaur face masks for craft with Martha, the children looked cute or scary depending on which mask they choose.

After half-term the children have voted to focus on babies, we tink about what they wear, eat, are kept clean and how they move and show their feelings then we will compare how they are different to us.  We will bring the toy babies and pushchairs into Pebbles.   The craft activity will involve the children cutting out features of babies and children and sicking them in the right place.  For malleable we will put jelly in the builders tray as both babiess and children like that!

Have a lovely half-term, 

The Pebbles team.