Exploring bugs this morning! :-D
This week we looked at The Enormous Turnip and have been looking closely at root vegetables. Yesterday we put out paint in trays with root vegetables and left the children to it :-) I loved the variations in the children’s pictures and processes. Some children arranged the veg in patterns, others covered the paper entirely and two children ignored the veg and went straight in with their hands :-D good fun was had by all!!
Traditional Tales…
Wow what a busy few weeks! We are focussing on traditional tales at the moment and as well as the usual tales such as Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks we have also been looking at stories from further afield. We spent two weeks looking at The Leopard’s Drum and thought it was fab and this week have been having great fun acting out and re-telling the enormous turnip. The children have really been loving our Storyphones too- headphones you can download/record content onto to listen to songs, stories or give instructions.
So many great opportunities for developing language skills and vocab and am really really pleased with the writing some of the children are now producing in their play :-D
Will try and post some pics tmw!
Yup, play is important :-) Love this poem!
When I am building in the block room, please don’t say I’m “just playing”. For you see, I’m learning as I play, about balance and shapes. Who knows, I may be an architect someday.
When I’m getting all dressed up, setting the table, caring for the babies, don’t get the idea I’m “just playing”….
Keeping up the three little pigs theme, we added pigs and cardboard tubes to our fab coloured rice. I was pleased that so many different children came and played in this tub today - even the children who normally wouldn’t play with the sand/rice etc. Lots of re-enacting going on and the children added various props from around the room to help them. Great for social interaction opportunities :-)
This week we looked at the story of The Three Little Pigs. We have heard lots of conversations about the wolf huffing and puffing (and seen it in the children’s play) so we set up a station where the children could make their own ‘Huff and Puff’ pictures. It went down a treat and some children several up to 40 minutes dropping watered down ink onto the paper and blowing it like the wolf :-) It is so nice to see children so highly engaged and the conversations about mixing colours that took place were a treat to hear!
Spray painting….great fun (and fab for strengthening hand/finger muscles :-) ) but think we will be finding paint splattered items for a long time to come lol! All but two of my children chose to come and have a go throughout the day and every picture is different. One child deliberately placed her 3 sprays (each one in a different colour) whilst another sprayed until there was not a speck of white left on the paper :-) love it!
Baking Reindeer cookies - I found the idea on Pinterest :-) love the fact that they are all different and the children loved giving to their parents as a Christmas present. Yummy!
