August - October 22
Halloween Is Coming!
The children have been talking about Halloween! Pumpkins were put at the woodwork station to practise hammering nails into. The children commented on how "big" the pumpkins were. Words such as 'gigantic, huge, massive, enormous' were used to increase children's language and vocabulary.
The children decorated the pumpkins. They used different materials and objects to create the pumpkins face!
"The lollipop stick is going to be the mouth and the lids are going to be the eyes - it has green eyes!"
Witch Ring Toss
Number Recognition - "I did hat number 5"
Perseverance
Concentration skills
Throwing Skills
Counting Spiders
"2 spiders"
"I am counting the spiders and putting them on the web!"
"1,2,3,4"
Witches' Wands
Fine motor skills - threading the beads.
The children have been reading the story 'Winnie the Witch' and wanted to create their own magical wands.
They went on a stick hunt and found different lengths and sizes of sticks.
They chose what materials they wanted to use such as; beads,glitter and ribbon.
Fine motor skills - twisting the ribbon around the sticks.
Printing Pumpkins
We chose if we wanted to use either apples or potatoes to make pumpkin printings!
We used our paint brush skills to carefully paint the stem of the pumpkins!
Such great focus and concentration!
We used different materials and shapes to decorate our own pumpkins
All our pumpkins are different!
We are developing our fine motor skills by cutting, gluing and sticking!
Halloween Bingo!
Taking Turns
Working together
Conversations
"There are 2 vampires and they match!"
Matching
Threading
Using a knife to ice our halloween biscuits
Learning about the consistency of the icing. We predicted what the consistency would be like.
Will it be 'runny' or 'thick'?
MUGA: to explore children's moving and thinking skills and to follow verbal and visual instructions
Throwing
Following visual instructions
Green - Run
Yellow - Jump
Red- Stop
Catching
Jump and then land on two feet
Hopping
Can we place our feet on their side?
Can we then try and move with them in that position?
Placing one foot on our heel and the other foot on our tip toes - we really had to think about this one!
Jumping over the line
Autumn Loose Parts
Making patterns with autumn leaves
"Yellow,red,yellow,red..."
Being creative using a variety of autumn loose parts
Natural materials such as; conkers, leaves, sticks and pinecones were used!
Some of the things that were created were people and animals.
Practising our pen control
Going over the outline of the leaf!
Decorating Pinecones
There were a variety of sizes of pinecones for the children to choose from
Choosing what colour of paints we wanted to use
Sprinkling glitter
Autumn Time Is Here!
Our Autumn tree paintings!
We spoke about the different shapes,sizes, colours and patterns of the leaves
Leaf Printing
Look at our beautiful autumn artwork!
We drew our own autumn leaves!
What detailed drawings!
And we tried our best cutting them out!
We used our fine motor skills by gluing and sticking tissue paper - decorating our autumn leaves!
Autumn Time Is Here!
Autumn time is here! Autumn time is here! It's getting very chilly now that Autumn time is here!
The leaves are falling down, the leaves are falling down - red, orange, yellow, brown, the leaves are falling down!
The animals gather food, the animals gather food - nuts, seeds and juicy fruits, the animals gather food!
Our Autumn Walk
Our bags full of pinecones!
"I think we have 100 pinecones"
The children went on an Autumn walk to see what they could find. We spotted a pinecone tree and collected them. We put them into bags and then predicted how many we had collected. We took them back into the nursery and counted them. We will be using them for a variety of learning experiences.
"They fell from the tree and they are on the ground!"
Practising our woodwork tools
Sawing
Hammering
Drilling Holes
Sanding the wood to make it smooth
Taking nails out
"A house for my mummy"
Here are some of the children's wonderful woodwork creations!
The idea of creating our own traffic light stemmed from the children using the bikes and scooters and using words 'Go' and 'Stop'
Drawing a circle for the traffic lights
Practising our cutting skills by cutting around the circles!
Gluing the circles!
Sticking them on in the correct order
Using our writing skills to show which each colour means
Decorating the traffic lights in all the colours!
Using the traffic light in our play. "Red means you need to stop!"
Number roads!
We are using different vehicles on the number roads. This helps us understand the correct direction in which numbers are written.
The children worked together as a team and chose very carefully what sizes and shapes of blocks to use inorder to build their own individual cars. What amazing creativity and teamwork skills!
Symmetrical Structures
L built her very own Zoo using her creativity and problem solving skills. "This zoo has dinosaurs in it, they are making a lot of noise!"
"We both built a helicopter. It's so tall, even taller than you!"
"The long block is a bridge to the castle!"
"It's a cafe!"
Baking Cookies
We add the first ingredient first - butter!
Then the icing sugar. We had to count out 4 tablespoons!
Measuring
Counting
Following instructions
Creativity
Exploring cause and effect
Developing life skills
Language development
Listening skills
Developing fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination
I wonder what it smells like?
"Look at mine! I mixed it and it's fluffy!"
"It's quite hard to stir"
Pouring 1 tablespoon of milk in
Adding a bit of vanilla flavour to the mixture!
Kneading the dough
"It's sticky! I need more flour I think"
We had different shapes of cutters to choose from
"I'm going to do a star"
Learning about time and finding out how long it takes for the cookies to cook!
Ready to put into the oven!
Lets decorate our biscuits!
We used icing and different shapes and colours of sprinkles!
All ready to have a taste!
Banana Smoothies
Cutting the bananas into pieces
Pouring the milk in
Adding the bananas into the milk
Apple Smoothies
Chopping the apples
Adding the apples to the milk
"It tastes fruity!"
Playful Playdough
Stirring
Adding colour to the dough
Playdough helps develop children's fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination.
It encourages creativity.
It is significant for physical developmental milestones such as holding, writing, drawing, cutting etc.
It supports literacy and numeracy (measuring out all the ingredients and using descriptive language).
It helps children relax, focus and relieve stress.
Rolling
Cutting
Squeezing
Kneading
Using different tools to mark make
Pressing
Decorating
Counting
"Look I made a man hand bag!"
"It's so sticky and stretchy!"
"I made a lollipop!"
"It's a puppy!"
Putting different flavours of toppings on the cupcake!
Welcome back!
Our new and returning children have settled well into the new nursery year and have been; building friendships, building relationships with staff, learning the nursery routines, engaging in play and taking part in a variety of learning experiences. Have a look at how busy we have been the last few weeks!
Outdoor Play
The children were interested in making cakes with the sand. Candles were provided and the children discussed the different colours, the patterns and counted the candles. They learned that the shape of the candles is a 'Cylinder'
"It's so stripy"
"We can all count!
"Gold and silver"
"We are on the see saw!"
"We are going up and down"
Picking out our planted potatoes and washing them!
Picking out our grown potatoes and washing them!
Working as a team to build a wooden slide with steps
"We are pretending we are on horses! I go horse riding!"
"I found a stick that looks like number 7!"
Physical Literacy/Muddy Movers
Jumping
Going under the wooden tent
Climbing
Balancing
Risk Assessing
Filling
Pouring
Making a water slide!
Getting messy in the mud kitchen!
Pushing
Shaving foam
"It's so soft, it looks like snow!"
"It's white like snow!"
Caring for our environment by pulling out weeds!
Numeracy - 'Can you jump to number 5?'
"I'm standing on number 5"
Mark making with coloured sand
Planting cress seeds
We are engineers - building a roof with wooden planks!
Under the roof
"Look I'm a mermaid"
Safety first!
We need to put our helmet on before cycling.
Developing our gross motor skills
