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This afternoon we had several Autumnal activities where we explored pumpkins, made fairy stick wands and tasted yummy hot chocolate!

The children loved exploring inside a pumpkin and discovering lots of seeds and sticky squishy pumpkin mash! This was a great sensory experience and we enjoyed using our fine motor skills to scoop out the pumpkin contents and explore our senses of touch and smell!

In our outdoor forest school we joined some children in Foundation Stage to make and decorate some stick wands! This was lots of fun and got our fingers moving-wrapping and threading ribbon and bits of Autumnal foliage!

We enjoyed chatting to new friends over a hot chocolate and exploring the great outdoors, practicing our balancing skills on the logs and attempting to do this independently!

A lovely afternoon in our forest school garden where the children definitely seem their happiest!

This week in Hub 1 we have done lots of ‘getting messy activities‘ to encourage our fine and gross motor skills! From painting activities, muddy play, shaving foam squeezing and pumpkin discovering… we have been given lots of opportunities to get our hands moving and really get  stuck in with some sensory exploration! Messy play is an extremely important part of our learning and development, enhancing those early sensory exploration skills, alongside fostering creativity and problem solving, promoting emotional regulation and encouraging and supporting language development!

These experiences have led to lots of open ended communication opportunities and encouraging the use of vocabulary and expressing needs and wants! The children have loved joining in with all these activities and had a wonderful afternoon welcoming some parents in to join us in our ‘stay and play‘ session on Monday afternoon!