Another week of great learning

IMAGINATIVE PLAY

The children have played for long periods this week developing their role play and creating little stories.

These children have changed so much and grown in their friendships and ability to share and listen to each other.

  It has been particularly pleasing to see the cooperative play and verbal interaction.

 And yes! Santa was back this week, giving out lots of presents again!

PRACTISING OUR NUMBER SKILLS 

AND PHYSICAL SKILLS

 We're going on a number hunt - look what we found in our room!

Then followed a super time of matching and comparing numbers.

Some of us went on a number hunt around the whole school too!

 We used a range of tools and equipment in different ways this week. 

Putting those fingers to work

IMPORTANT FINGERS
Manipulating a peg is great for developing those fine motor skills that children need for using pencils and gaining good control for writing.

 These children had lots of practice this week!

Number skills were also incorporated into this - Lots and lots of counting! 

We pegged up numerals for children to match, as well as ordering numbers.

Some children were able to name numerals too.

Children demonstrated good concentration as they controlled where they poured water and also balanced conkers on golf tees.

Little fingers peeled and pierced some of the soft peppers in the outdoor kitchen. 

There was some very interesting looking soup!

COME AND SEE THE SHOW!

 There were lots of giggles and some wonderful performances in the puppet theatre! Puppets sang songs, danced and did lots of talking this week.

It was particularly pleasing to hear children asking each other questions and responding as the puppet character.

And next week....

we will be having lots of fun with the story of The Enormous Turnip, in addition to investigating pumpkins, pomegranates and peppers!

Autumn delights

CHANGING SEASONS


The children have taken time to enjoy the treasures that come with Autumn. We are blessed with many trees in our outdoor environment and masses of leaves have been falling!

There has been lots of fun with burying wellies in the leaves as well enjoying the wonderful rustling and crunching sounds as the children have jumped on and trodden in them.

The horse chestnut tree has been supplying us with seemingly endless conkers too! We had to dodge a few that fell while we were under the tree!

 

Going on a conker hunt was very exciting!

"Come and look! It's a tiny conker!"..."My bucket's nearly full"..."I've got more than you"...

Next the children arranged their collections on the ground. With support they counted how many they had and we talked about how long some of the lines were.

Back indoors the arranging and counting continued.

INVESTIGATING

This young lady spent a great deal of time in the fruit and veg shop studying what happened to the balances and dial scales when she added or took away items. 

Following the children's interest in sound making last week, the introduction of a keyboard was very popular. The children worked out how to change the sounds by pressing certain buttons and they also discovered the preset tunes - resulting in "Jingle Bells" being heard throughout the room!

There has been some super story telling this week, and it has been pleasing to see children sharing and enjoying stories together, maintaining their focus for long periods of time.

Another great week of fun and learning!

Play is such a powerful way to learn

GET YOUR FRUIT AND VEG HERE!

Our little shop has helped some of our newer children begin to build relationships as they have played at being shop keeper and customer

 The children have found the balances intriguing and have spent a long time observing what happens and trying things out.

 "All of the food has gone. I'll ring up for a delivery!"

 Naming the different fruit and vegetables as well as feeling their textures has prompted the children to talk about which ones they like to eat at home, as well as other foods.

 Anytime is a good time to practise some counting!

LET'S MAKE SOME SOUNDS!

 Enjoying moving, dancing and singing with friends!

ON THE GO ALL OF THE TIME!

 Exploring colour mixing.

 Printing with and talking about shapes and colour.

 "These apples are very slippery!"

 And, of course, we can't forget a few early visits by Santa this week, 

with a very heavy case of presents!