A number of children have shown a real interest in playing games. They have been learning to use the interactive whiteboard to play games. Through this they have been learning to share and take turns.
In the 3 bears game they were sorting food by size feeding it to each of the bears.
They have also been developing their memory skills through playing pairs.
Some children were keen to play picture bingo identifying what picture was on their card and giving it to a friend if it was on their bingo board.
In ABC and beyond, the children have started reading the non-fiction book Tree by Britta Teckentrup. They are starting to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. Through this book they are learning about the four seasons. This week we have been learning about autumn when the trees lose their leaves.
Some of the children have been matching autumn leaves playing a pairs game.
As the children are learning about time through seasons of the year, they have also started to look at a calendar. They are beginning to learn songs about days of the week and months of the year. They have also been counting in sequence to identify the date. Part of the calendar also includes identifying the season and the weather that day. This supports the children to identify changes in weather and the impact of this on their environment.
A few children have been exploring the cranes finding different objects in the nursery and problem solving to try and get the crane to lift the object.
In the garden, some children have been exploring water from different levels identifying how to get water to flow from one place to another.
Some children were keen to wash the nursery windows using different containers to splash the windows and watching how far the water travelled.
In Big noise, the children have been singing rhymes.
Some of the children were keen to join in a memory game with Michele. They had to look at all the animals and memorise them. When Michele covered them over and took one away they had to guess which one was left listening to all of the words in the clues.
Jacob and Layla showed interest in playing a picture word match game. They are beginning to hear the sounds at the start of certain words and used the colours of the puzzle pieces to help them match words to pictures.
Taylor was exploring magnets through the trains. She worked out that if she put the trains a certain way round she could make the train move along the floor without being connected to one another through counteracting the magnets. She continued to add more trains to her set moving a few trains along the floor.
Some of the children have shown interest in building bridges in the garden to go over on the bikes and scooters. They have been participating in bridge construction challenges in the garden using different construction materials to create bridges. They have also been looking at photographs of different types of bridges.
Kacper wanted to look bridges on the computer. Lewis was keen to see them too. They watched a video of the Tay rail bridge with a train leaving Dundee then the Tay road bridge with cars and other vehicles going into Dundee. They learned that there is separate bridge for trains and that not all vehicles go across the Tay road bridge. They were also keen to see underneath the Tay road Bridge and were excited to see a large pink rubber duck outside the Apex Hotel.
