Dalesplay

16/10/2026

This week in the Ducklings room we have been exploring different materials; making sensory bottles to take home, playing with the autumn dough, making a giant leaf hedgehog and making toadstool pictures.🦔🍄🌾🎨
We have been developing our fine motor skills using different tools and building with the duplo. We enjoyed singing Di**le dangle scarecrow and our Autumn song, everyone joined in the actions and had a go at singing along.🎶👨‍🌾🪾

16/10/2026

This week the Sunshine’s Autumn learning has continued. We have made wreaths and crowns using our leaves from the treasure tray, looking at the different colours and shapes that we could find. Our baking activity was making owl rice cakes using different toppings to make the texture of the owls body.
We finished off our combined harvester that we created together using junk box materials and then sang the big red combine harvester song.

Our learning took a different journey during our week following the children’s interest of SuperPotato. What fun we had creating SuperPotato using potatoes and material to decorate. Cutting and sticking bits on.
We made our very own head bands with big eyes and pretended to be superheroes together, laughing, playing and catching each other.
We role played in the dolls house trying to catch the veggies of doom from the story. 🍁 🍂 🥔🫛 🥬 🦸

12/10/2026

09/10/2026

09/10/2026

This week the Sunshine’s role play area has been transformed into an Autumn Woodland. We have been exploring our treasure tray full of Autumn finds from our nature walks that we have completed with our families. The children loved sharing their collections with each other, showing what they had found.
We went on our own nature walk to see what we could find to add to it.

We made some hedgehogs using our motor skills to mould the play-dough and used different materials to make the spikes.
Our apple and cinnamon rolls that we baked were a delicious treat and the smell coming from the kitchen as they cooked was amazing.

09/10/2026

In the Ducklings room we have been exploring Autumn 🍁🍂
We have enjoyed playing alongside our peers in the Autumn role play area developing our imagination and social skills.

We made a large Autumn tree picture, painted with apples and pine cones developing our motor skills and exploring materials and textures. We talked about the different colours and used descriptive words to help expand the children’s word bank. 🪾🍎🎨🍁

We have shared Autumn stories and learnt a new action rhyme about leaves and the children made apple and cinnamon scones following instructions and taking turns. They smelt delicious 🧈🍎