Today we will explore printing to create a Christmas card design. This design will be sent home for parents, who will then be able to order copies of the design to be made into a variety of Christmas items. We will explain to the children that we are going to explore printing and remind the children of the shape and dinosaur printing they have explored independently. We will talk about the colours that we have available and show them how to add colour to their palette so that they are ready to print. We will show them an example of a completed card so that they know what theirs may look like. The children can then choose their own colours and print a series of baubles on the card. We will remind them how to create a clear print. Once they have finished they will need to add a little detail using a finger painting technique. Throughout we will remind them to be careful of other’s work

Again, we will remind the children about visiting the hall and explain that today we are going to have another PE lesson with Game On. Then we will explain that today we are going to change into PE kits again. Once all the children are changed we will remind them of the skills they practised last week, working with a partner and a team, taking turns and bouncing and catching a ball. We will also remind them about being safe in the hall and listening to the instructions. After Game On and when we are back in the classroom the children will need to change back into their school clothes.

Later in the morning we will have a go at another physical skill and the children will be having a go at writing their names on whiteboards.

Today’s activity is linked to Arthur’s and Connies’ queries about why we need to brush our teeth and Evie’s and Tilly’s questions about why we brush our teeth at the top AND the bottom. We will begin by discussing the information in a clip about teeth and talk about when we brush our teeth.

Then we will explain that today is about brushing teeth and finding out how careful you need to be when you brush your teeth to check that you don’t leave any bits of food behind. We will begin by modelling this with a giant set of teeth. Then we will show the children some small toys that have got really grubby after a day of play. This is the same as teeth - they get grubby after a day or night’s work and need cleaning. We will give each child a toothbrush to explore cleaning the toys, we will use soap as toothpaste (reminding the children that they wouldn’t put soap in their mouths). Whilst they do this we will talk about why you need to brush your teeth carefully, both up the top and the bottom, and why you must use the correct pressure as you brush. We will discuss how it is harder getting dirt out of tricky corners and that this is the same with your teeth.

At story time this week we will also talk about why teeth fall out (Teddy’s question) and what happens if they fall out (Archer’s question). Georgie will also have the opportunity to talk about her brother’s tooth coming out and Megan will be able to remind everyone that her brother’s tooth came out even though he brushed it and that’s OK.

Emmie told us that she thinks that monkeys put toothpaste on their teeth and Arthur wants to know if monkeys have banana flavoured toothpaste. So today we are going to discuss this and then explore and investigate some different smells and tastes to see what we think and what we would like or not like as toothpaste. Following each taste or smell the children will need to move their mini me character into the circle that represents yes or no (reflecting whether they liked it or not). We will ask individual children to count how many in each group (children will be asked to represent [show] this quantity with their fingers) and then adults will model how this could be recorded. We will repeat this with different tastes or smells (reflecting on whether monkeys would really like banana flavour toothpaste) and find out at the end which was the most popular flavour or smell

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