After experiencing a post office in the role play area, the children extended their learning by visiting our local post office to buy stamps and post letters and parcels. It was great for them to get this first hand experience and to begin to use services in their local community.
Outdoor play is always very popular with our children, regardless of weather, and most are enthusiastic to experience any outdoor activities on offer. Here you can get a taste of a typical winter’s day when the children in the Raindrop Room enjoyed marshmallows by the fire and created sculptures from stones. We think that they produced some super artwork and everyone looks to be enjoying the campfire as always.
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Some of the children worked together towards the end of term to create a Christmas wreath. They did a great job of choosing their materials and discussing where to position them, producing an end product that they all designed and felt proud of.
Alfie L.’s family has been looking at the photos of the children playing in the “snow”:
“Loving Alfie’s pink coat !!!!”
Glad you like the high fashion for outdoor play. The children are usually just happy to get any coat or suit on to get outside.
Not content with just a Christmas tree indoors, the children in the Raindrop Room found a metal frame in the garden and created their own outdoor tree too. We think that they made a great job of it.
Children are often intrigued by the minibeasts they see outdoors as part of their play and finding a worm can arouse great curiosity. Some of the children in the Rainbow Room talked about where worms live and how we could find them. They wondered how many might live in their garden so decided to do a little survey. As you can see, they were enthusiastic to do lots of digging to find worms and developed their Maths skills by measuring them to find the shortest and longest and then counted them each day to record on a graph. What great little investigative scientists they were and it was great to see how gentle all the children were with the worms that they found.
The outdoors provides the opportunity for a bigger canvas than indoors for those who want to experiment with paint. Some like to create artwork on paper while others enjoy decorating the environment. This was certainly a busy little team showing their creativity in the garden recently.
What better way to learn about shapes than to go out and find some in our own environment? A group from the Rainbow Room went on a shape hunt in the school’s nature area and were excited to find lots of examples of shapes in the real world. They even took the photos themselves and we think that they did a good job as “detective photographers”. Great work finding all these shapes and more. We think that your photos are super and have made them into a display in the Maths area of the Rainbow Room.
Hammers, nails and wood provide great opportunities for the children to develop their skills in Technologies and they show themselves to be great learners whether indoors or out. You can see from these photos that their focus and attention is impressive as they work safely and confidently with the tools. The children are rightly proud that they are carrying out what they consider an adult task and are developing confidence to consider this as a possible area of work in the future.
Mrs Irving has been looking at the video of the children making their firework art outdoors:
“Watching this has made me smile! What a fabulous, fun filled fireworks day with our busy, brilliant children!”
We certainly had a very busy day with lots of fun activities. We hope that our little video gives our families a taste of it.
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