Froglets have had a lovely last week of term. We have enjoyed lots of festive fun, having parties in both reception and Froglets.

We also found out the results of our Christmas colouring competition from Tesco express Kingsteignton. Esmae P won first place and Ben and Isaac came second and third. All those that took part also got a chocolatey treat! Thank you Tesco Express!

On Wednesday we had our school Christmas dinner. Lots of children tried a school lunch for the first time and everyone has a lovely lunchtime.

Merry Christmas everyone! See you next year!

Christmas fever has well and truly hit Froglets this week. We’ve been doing lots of christmasy things and counting down until when Santa comes.

On Monday, Santa wrote us a letter and delivered us a new friend for Froglets called Robin. She came with her very own story which we have been reading this week. The story is all about sharing and the true spirit of giving at Christmas.

We went on a very exciting trip on Wednesday to Kent’s cavern. One of Santa’s elves called Ginger took us on a tour of the caves where we did lots of fun things.

Then we met Santa. He was asleep when we got there but he soon woke up when we shouting “SANTA!!!!”

Also this week we has grandparents afternoon. There were lots of christmasy activities to do.

Wow, what a busy week in Froglets this week!

On Thursday the children performed their nativity to over 60 adults and 70 children! I hope you agree that the were absolutely amazing! We were all very proud of how well the did. On Friday we watched the performance back and the children loved seeing themselves on the screen.

Also in Froglets this week…

We have been busy making Crowns Like the kings wear

Playing with our snowy winder wonderland with Elsa and Anna

We also had a visit from a mischievous elf Frog called Freddo. Santa sent him to Froglets to leave how to be a superstar like our Froglets but he just keeps being naughty! On Friday we found him hanging from the ceiling!

We have been very busy in Froglets this week getting ready for our Nativity on Thursday 5th December. The Froglets have been practising on the stage every day, singing their songs and can’t wait for you to see them all dressed up.

In Maths we have taken part in a whole school maths investigation this week based on the book- How many jelly beans?

Froglets looked at the colour of the beans and sorted them out. We then had a go at counting how many there were. We even had a go at comparing the groups to see which had more.

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This week we also introduced our Mastery Meerkat Challenge, linked to the story How many Jelly Beans? This gave the children the opportunity to talk about how they know the answer, using talk to deepen their knowledge.

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This week in Froglets we have started our new topic of light, dark and colours. We started by talking all about fireworks. The children shared their experiences of the colours and sounds they make and have done lots of fun firework learning.

In the creative area we have had lots of fun printing fireworks and sprinkling glitter.

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We’ve been making lots of marks in the glitter tray. The children looked and the fireworks and used their fingers to draw them. Our story of the week this week was Wow said the owl. The children learnt all about the colours the owl could see and how to sign each colour using makaton.

This week in Froglets we’ve been very busy doing lots of jobs and activities.

Christmas came early to Froglets when we started making our Christmas card designs. The children enjoyed making snowmen and Christmas trees using a range of different materials, the glitter was a big hit!

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As a school, St Michaels children have all been learning about children’s rights and the UN convention on the child. This is part of a UNICEF awards scheme to ensure all children understand their rights and how they fit into their daily lives. In Froglets we talked about the different between wanting something e.g. a new bike and having the right to something e.g the chance to learn.

Together we made some play dough like we use in dough disco for the enterprise sale taking place after school on Friday 18th October. The children helped to make a poster to explain dough disco, showing the moves we do so they can do them at home.

Here are some of the other activities we have done this week.

Esmae enjoyed learning to cut on the snipping table.

Jacob had lots of fun giving the babies a bath in the water tray.

Rose and Evie worked together to build using the Polydron. Lots of children enjoyed exploring the soap flakes and glitter.

This week in Froglets we have been thinking more about our bodies. Every day we have looked at one of our senses.

We started the week by thinking about what we could see. We read the shark in the dark story and made our own telescopes. Off we went on a hunt around school to see what we could see. We saw lots of photos in the corridor… Noticed a disco ball in the hall…Looked up to see the moon outside…and saw the train on the playground.

We then spent time thinking about what we could hear and had lots of fun banging, strumming and shaking the instruments. Flynn and Jamie pretended to be rock stars on the stage. Tiani enjoyed playing the ukulele.

Jesse tried lots of different ways of making the ukulele make sounds.

We also had lots of fun drawing around our bodies and colouring ourselves in.

We also had a circle time about what we use our hands for and how they are kind to one another. The children came up with some great ideas of what things we could do with our hands such as high fives, playing cars and painting They also knew that we don’t do things like fighting or snatching with our hands.

What a brilliant start Froglets have had to the year! All of the children have settled really well and are beginning to make friends.

This week we have started our All about me topic! The children have been telling us all themselves and their families and drawing portraits.

We also have been thinking about our body parts in Froglets this week. We sang ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ and then labelled where each of these things were on Mrs Aplin-Moore. We even thought of a few more such as hip, wrist and ankle, she was very impressed!

We have had the dressing up box out in Froglets this week. The children have loved making up their own stories and it has really helped develop new friendships.

Over the past few weeks, Froglets have had some visitors in the classroom. We have had some caterpillars to look after. We watched them carefully as they ate the food and grew bigger and bigger. Last week they crawled to the top of the pot and turned themselves into cocoons. 2 caterpillars hatched this week. The children called them Nemo and Sausage.

We let the butterflies go in the secret garden and they flew off to explore.

We have one caterpillar left that is yet to hatch so will have to wait and see what the Froglets will name them next week.

This week Froglets continued their learning about the circus!

We were very lucky to have a visit from Elfic the Juggler. He showed us how to juggle and rode his very tall unicycle around the playground. We had a lot of fun! After we had the chance to have a go at some circus skills for ourselves…

We have also been doing some growing in Froglets. Last week the children planted some cress seeds and this week they got to see what had happened to them. They all knew they had to water the seeds to help them grow.

We have done lots of name writing this week. Look how good we are getting…