Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
As Noah is going to a new school, we have been encouraging him to understand where he is going to be from September. Noah says: “I’m going to the big school and Sofia is going to be in Noddy’s”.
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Encourage activities that help with tasks like holding a pencil, cutting with scissors, and drawing pictures for his new school. Noah could also try writing his name or practicing his basic shapes and letters in preparation for school.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
The turtle room went on a trip to the garden centre and Noah was exploring it, talking about colours, what he could smell and what flowers need to grow. Well done Noah!
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Ask Noah how she feels when he is surrounded by the flowers and smells. Exploring emotional responses, like, "How does the garden make you feel? Happy or calm?"
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was at the mark making area practicing tutting and asked him if he could cut following the dotted lines and so he did. Well done Noah!
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carry on providing opportunities for Noah where he can continue strengthening his fingers.
Sophia by Kyra Philbert-Nurse
Today Sophia made some summer drinks out of paper and paint. While she was using her paint brush she also used her index finger to move the paint around the paper.
Next steps: Help improve Sophia’s pincer grip by adding items to stick onto her artwork while painting.
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Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was playing with the magnetic board when I asked him to find her name. He quickly found it, and then I asked him to locate the letters in him name and write them on the board. As he did, he started saying the phonetic sound for each letter and built his name one by one. Well done Noah!
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Continue reinforcing phonetic awareness through songs or games that involve rhyming and sounds.
Sophia by Kyra Philbert-Nurse
Today Sophia was playing in the ball pit when another child came. Sophia picked up a ball and shared it with them. Well done Sophia !
Next steps; Improve pincer grip by doing more intricate messy trays with rice to help Improve her grip on smaller toys.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was drawing and asked me how to hold the pencil as he was holding it with his whole hand. I showed him how I was holding the pencil and he tried to do the same but he could not draw in the same way he was doing earlier.
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Prepare activities where Noah can strengthen his fingers, eg. playing with play dough, threading, building with small Lego pieces.
Sophia by Kyra Philbert-Nurse
This afternoon Sophia was presented with playdough when she began squeezing the dough with one hand while poking the other bit of dough with her other hand. Sophia was very enthusiastic about the playdough and loved the feeling of it.
next steps: encourage Sophia to use her hands and fingers during sensory play with sand or flour etc in order to develop er fine motor skills.
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Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
We were making marks on flour in the messy tray using brushes and Noah drew a figure and said it was number three. Well done Noah!
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Let Noah explore how to use different tools to create different numbers or letters.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was playing in the Turtle room and he said the word "beefeater" I asked him if he knew what a beefeater was and he said they ate beef and they lived in the tower of London.
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Keep expanding Noah's understanding and knowledge of the city of London, showing him pictures, asking him what he can see and explaining what we are showing.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
We were going through some of the letters of the alphabet, and one of the teachers showed the picture of an elephant. Noah was asked to find the letter "E" for elephant. He stood up and picked up the right one. Well done, Noah!
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Continue with identifying individual letters, especially those in familiar words like names, animals, or favourite objects.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
during circle time, I asked Noah to recognise a pentagon, he counted its sides and said: 5, a pentagon. Well done!
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Begin using more mathematical language like “sides,” “corners,” and “edges” in shape discussions.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
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Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
We were playing a game where Noah had to throw the dices, count the dots and match them with the right number. Noah could count and match them correctly. Well done Noah!
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Encourage Noah to recognise small quantities (1–5) without counting.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During small sports, the children were asked to flip cones with the stick. Noah struggled at first but after a few attempts found the way to flip the cones just using the hickey stick. Well done!
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Provide more opportunities for Noah to practice activities involving balance, coordination, and agility.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During Spanish lesson, Noah showed he could remember most of the colours, numbers and feelings (enfadado, angry; contento, happy; triste, sad).
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i will introduce new vocabulary related to Noah’s interests and will introduce some simple constructions.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
We were listening to scary, sad and happy music. When listening to scary music, Noah said “Bear one - coming with a knife”. When we were listening to sad music and I asked him how he felt he said “it’s about scary”. When we listened to happy music, Noah started dancing and smiling
well done!
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Encourage Noah to describe the music further, Asking questions like, "What made the music sound scary or happy?" or "Can you make a sound that matches the sad music?".
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
I was playing in the home corner with Noah (hairdressers) and he was brushing my hair, I asked him what he was going to do and he said he was going to wash it and that he needed scissors to cut it.
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Discuss hygiene and personal care. Talk about why we wash our hair, why we cut it, and how we take care of our hair. This fosters an understanding of self-care and personal hygiene.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was painting with brushes and he switched the way he was holding it, he used his whole hand at times and then he would try to use thump, index and middle finger.
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Keep preparing activities for Noah where he can work on his fine motor skills using different tools, like brushes, pencils or sticks.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
during the Spanish lessons I showed a picture of a boy showing an angry face and Noah remembered the translation in Spanish “Enfadado”.
Well done Noah!
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Keep working on Spanish words for feelings like happy: contento, sad: triste
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During circle time, we were talking about opposites, I showed a picture of an open box and Noah said they were going up, so I asked him what was the opposite of open and he said closed. Well done Noah!
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Keep showing Noah pictures where he can identify more opposites.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was asked to count and recognise numbers and Noah showed he can count and recognise numbers from 1 to 10.
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Prepare activities where Noah can count and recognise numbers from 1 to 15
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
One of Noah’s friends was trying to put their shoes on, when this child finished putting them on, Noah said “Well done! Im very proud of you”. Well done Noah!
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Keep Encouraging Noah to understand what other people might expect from us and how to manage expectations in a positive way.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During small sports, the children where asked to make a cone stand using a hockey stick. Noah struggled at first and tried to use his other hand but in the end he make the cone stand by just using the stick. Well done Noah!
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Keep working on Noah's physical development, particularly on his fine motor skills, for example encouraging him to zip up his coat.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During circle time, we were practicing prepositional language, and I showed Noah a picture of a teddy standing between two tables. I asked him where the teddy was, and he said that the teddy was between the tables. Well done Noah!
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Keep working on prepositions using different objects we can find in the room or in the garden
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During circle time we were talking and showing pictures of the planets, and Noah remembered Saturn.
Well done Noah!
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Keep working on Noah’s memory, by preparing activities about the topic we are working on where he is giving a description or a picture and he has to guess.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During circle time, I asked the children in the Turtle room who was going to school, and Noah said he would go to school when he was old.
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Keep encouraging Noah to talk about past and future events using the right tenses by asking questions, reading stories that use these tenses.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah was playing at he role play area with one of his friends pretending they were in a restaurant. Noah was bringing toy food to the table and saying that it was Elena's birthday as he put a cake made out of blocks and started singing happy birthday.
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Prepare activities for Noah where he can understand his emotions and other's, showing empathy a matching other people's expectations through role play activities or story time.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
During circle time we were working in numbers and Noah was asked to count and take five big waffles and so he did. Well dine Noah!
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Keep working on mathematics by asking Noah to count and give up to ten items.
Noah by Elena Blanco Corbacho
Noah is settling in the new room very well, this week he has been exploring and playing with his friends and new teachers.
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Keep working on Noah’s confidence in the Turtle room helping him to get used to the new routine.
Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah practiced using his fine motor skills using scissors well whilst cutting out the flower.
NS: Encourage him to continue to cut different shapes from different materials.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah imitates Freddie how to hold a hockey stick and then kicks it well to the other side of the garden using his fine and gross motor skills.
NS: Encourage Noah to participate more in other physical activities to enhance his physical development skills.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
During sharing box session, the teacher hold up a book and asked who’s book is it? Noah replied it’s Noddy’s book as it had a Noddy’s logo on it. Well spotted Noah, great job.
NS: Encourage Noah to continue to recognise logos on items and be able to read it after the teacher.
Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah listens to his teacher’s instructions following the rules during sports activities. He points the red side of the rocket towards his friend and throws it up to her, well done Noah
NS: Encourage Him to participate more in physical activities to improve on his stamina and physical skills.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah wears a chef scarf on his head. He says “I am a chef” and starts to fill in a container with tomato sauce and pour to the plain pasta to make his own tomato pasta. He adds up salt and other ingredients in it to his taste, wow yummy pasta Noah.
NS: Encourage Noah to continue to participate in group activities with new teachers and friends and communicate more.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah can recognise and identify Numbers from 1 to 10, following the number sequence.
NS: Encourage Noah to expand his mathematical skills by asking him simple questions such as what number comes after 7, 8.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah write a letter, folds it and tries posting it but it couldn’t fit it. He then releases that he had to change its position for it to fit in the post box.
NS: To encourage Noah to explore shapes and measure and how things fit together during role plays.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
While looking at the pictures of the people who help us, Noah identifies the dentist and explains that they look after our teeth with actions pointing at his teeth. Well done Noah.
NS: Encourage Noah to learn about all different types of people who help us and what they do.
Noah by Ruqiya Noor
The teacher writes Noah’s name on the whiteboard and asks him to copy her to write the first letter of his name “N”. Noah imitates the teacher by writing a line starting from down going up. Well done Noah keep it up.
NS: Encourage Noah to continue to practice writing to improve on his fine motor skills by writing using different materials.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
Noah enjoyed exploring the paint texture using his hands and the car during the mark making activity while rolling his car from the bottom of the table going upwards the opposite direction from his friends.
NS: Encourage Noah to participate in all activities not just activities of his interest to support his needs through encouragement and praising.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
During the traffic light sign activity. I asked Noah to put glue on the black paper and then stick the red, orange and green circles on it. Noah instead glued first the coloured circles and then he placed them on the paper to create his traffic light signs. Well done Noah
NS: I will encourage Noah to continue to participate in different activities to improve on his fine motor skills and ask him to repeat the new words during activities eg traffic light.
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Noah by Ruqiya Noor
During Circle time while sitting on the carpet with the rest of children looking at the different means of transportation pictures. The teacher picks up a motorbike picture and asks Noah what can he see? He replied “Motorcycle”, clearly. Well done Noah.
NS: I will continue to encourage Noah to expand his knowledge of different means of transportation by asking him simple questions about them to enhance his speech and vocabulary.
Noah by Rashai Campbell
Noah had a great time and followed instructions carefully during small sports. He tried hitting his ball using his cricket bat but was holding the bat with one hand. I showed him how to hold his cricket ball using two hands, he intently observed me and copied the action with ease. Noah smiled and was proud of his achievements.
NS. Hand and eye coordination games/activity such as playing tennis encouraging Noah to hit the ball when thrown at him.
Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
I printed a picture of a baby no different baby stuff and told Noah we were playing a game.
I asked Noah what was it and he said “a baby” I asked him “Where is the baby Noah?” And he said “mummy’s tummy”
I asked Noah what we need to do when the baby does a wee wee and he said “change nappy” so he took the picture of the nappy and put it on the baby.
I asked him what do we give the baby if he is crying and he said “dummy” and put it on the baby.
I asked him what do we give the baby if is hungry and he said “water” and gave him the bottle.
And to finish, I asked him what do we give the baby for sleep time, and he said “teddy bear” and gave the teddy to the baby.
NS: keep doing games with Noah related to new babies to encourage him to help with the new baby when arrives. E.g Play with baby dolls and ask Noah to change the nappy.
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Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
Me and Noah were reading “Three little bunnies” is a book about Peter Rabbit having three little sisters.
While reading the book, Noah said “Mummy baby” and I asked him “Is mummy having a baby?” And Noah said “Yes, Noah baby”
I asked Noah if he is happy and he said “Yes” I asked him what is he going to do with the toys and the new baby and Noah said “sharing”
NS: keep reading this types of books with Noah to make him feel more familiar with babies and also keep working on his speech while asking and answering questions.
Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
Noah was sitting very nicely with his friend Eli looking at a book.
The book was about jungle animals and had lots on animals on the pages.
Noah started talking to Eli about everything he could see on the pages “The butterfly is flying” “The Lion is hungry”
NS: look at books together with Noah and ask him questions about it to encourage him to do longer sentences.
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Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
I showed Noah flashcards with the different “golden rules” from the classroom.
I showed him “tidying up” and asked him “what are the children doing” and he said “tidy up”
Then I showed him a flash card with children sharing toys and asked him the same question and he answered “sharing”
NS: keep using different flashcards to work on Noah’s speech and remembering the classroom rules.
Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
Today I was playing with Noah with the magnets.
He said “Look, a tower!”
I asked him if he could count the magnets he used and counted, “One, two, five”
I said to Noah, let’s count together and we counted from 1 to five together.
NS: do activities with numbers with Noah to practice his counting.
E.g. Count the Children in the room during circle time.
Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
This week we have "jungle animals" as the topic of the week.
We were listening to an audio with the jungle animals sounds. In the audio, the person will say the name of the animal and after we listened to the sound they make.
At the end of the audio, they play the sounds in a different order and without saying the name. The gorilla sound came up and Noah said "GORILLA" then the hippopotamus sound and Noah said "HIPPOPOTAMUS"
NS: use animals sounds with Noah to work on his attention and then ask him questions about them and the animals he listened to.
Noah by Alicia Romero Rielo
Today we wee doing dancing in Octopus room and the teachers made dance moved and asked the children to follow them.
Noah started dancing and coping the teachers moves.
We were giving instructions to the children during the dance and Noah followed them with no distraction.
NS: keep working on Noah’s attention and use dance to encourage him to follow instructions.