What We’ve Been Up To!
What We’ve Been Up To!
Here are some of the activities our children have enjoyed in the past few weeks.
Pre-schoolers practise balancing and explore new letters and sounds
A wonderful time has been had by our creative pre-schoolers painting with rainbow sponges and crafting self-portraits. Our budding little chefs have really excelled themselves too producing garlic bread and carrot cake, practically a three-course meal! In Jolly Phonics the children have been practising sounds, including ‘Nn’, ‘Pp’ and ‘Hh’. The children also brought in objects from home that represent these sounds for our interactive ‘show and tell’ session. In Silly science we’ve been blowing up balloons, exploring how a rain gauge works and looking at lung capacity. Finally, for Physical Fun lots of energy has been put into playing the parachute game, running races, and a special Halloween themed Spider Web balance game.
Toddlers enjoy noisy play and making Remembrance Day poppies
This month we have been encouraging talking by playing with the nursery Jack in the Box and indulging in noisy play to really let rip with sound! We’ve also focused on finger and thumb movements, practising picking up smaller objects with tweezers to help develop hand eye coordination.The toddlers controlled and moved their bodies with pass the ball, the ‘freeze’ on the spot game and intricate ribbon dancing to music. Art has been especially fascinating including nature painting, texture rubbing and making pretty red poppies and candles to mark Remembrance Day.
Babies explore colours and sharing stories
Our babies have loved our Super Sensory activities by rummaging through colour baskets and treasure baskets, which included lots of eye-catching glittery objects. Encouraging babbling has been key with the ‘make a story’ activity, singing and rhymes. As always, the children have loved sharing books and stories as a group.
Finally, we engaged our ‘messy fingers’ by making coloured ice cubes, sticking collages, and enjoying rainbow bubble play!
Theo learning about lung capacity
One of our Remembrance Day poppies
Remembrance Day candle
Some glittering autumn leaves
A dazzling firework painting
