What We’ve Been Up To!
We were busy bees in September. Here are some of the activities the children enjoyed.
Pre-schoolers Practise Phonics and Silly Science
September saw a real spurt of creativity from our eager pre-schoolers! They started in style by painting colourful self-portraits (bet you can’t guess who is who!). Next, they made decorated artwork with conkers and pine cones. And we’re certain that Paul Hollywood would be super proud of our little chefs; they’ve cooked up a storm these past few weeks, including chocolate chip cookies, Greek vegetarian kebabs and gorgeous cupcakes – yum, yum!
Our pre-schoolers progress with our Jolly Phonics programme continues to impress us. The children have been practising the sounds ‘Ff’, ‘Aa’ and ‘Tt’. We also encouraged them to bring in objects from home that represent these sounds for a group ‘show and tell’ session, everyone contributed, and we shared some brilliant words. In Silly Science we have been getting fizzy with explosion coke and Mentos! The children have also experimented with mixing oil with water and talked about their observations of some groovy lava lamps. In physical fun we have explored dance and general movement with energy and agility!
Acorn Art!
Colourful Rainbows!
Toddlers Learn About the Word ‘Go!’
Believe it or not, at times we do need to encourage talking with our toddlers! The feature word in September was ‘Go!’. To help with this we encouraged the children to talk about parties, in particular, fun birthday parties they have shared or attended. Next, we practised tricky finger and thumb movements through clothes peg sorting, lego matching and posting objects into a special pot.
Our toddlers also got lively moving about with hoop painting, several rounds of the bean bag game and our old-school favourite, hop scotch! Art cleverly linked to music and the children created their own musical instruments. A very quiet time indeed!
Babies Explore Touch and Slime!
Our babies enjoyed a raft of super sensory activities last month, including a touchy-feely wood basket, a ‘sense of smell’ basket (lots of sweet and strange scents in there!), and a ‘will it float?’ basket. We used peek-a-boo to encourage babbling and to teach the importance of sharing by practising taking turns. Art introduced edible finger painting, texture painting, and best of all, delicious edible slime!
