It never ceases to amaze us how inventive our children can be in their play. This little group decided to use the planks from the balancing activity to turn them into a slide. They carefully positioned and repositioned the planks until they found the right position and angle to make it work and here is the end result – a great little slide. Good teamwork boys and girls!
Inspired by the interest of a group of children in the Rainbow Room in pirates, those playing in the outdoor area recently created a pirate ship using the materials they could find in the garden. This produced endless hours of imaginative fun and great teamwork to create their ship. As you can see, discussions around pirates also led some to creating their own parrot which look great.
Tuesday was Big Pedal Fun Day for everyone at Hecklegirth as the children brought bikes and scooters to participate in great fun activities in the school playground under the guidance of some super volunteers. The children showed great confidence and enthusiasm to try out the challenges set for them and we would like to thank everyone who helped to organise this event and gave up their own time. The children had super fun and what a great way to keep fit and healthy. Let’s hope that they can have lots of fun in the holidays on their bikes and scooters.
Whenever we have taken opportunities to learn about freezing and melting outdoors, the children have always been fascinated and excited by the changing state of the water. This term, as part of our Sciences activities, we have explored this interest further by making ice marbles using balloons. As you can see, there was always an enthusiastic group of children keen to participate and investigate what would happen to our marbles. We melted them indoors and outdoors as a comparison and the children loved it when we put objects inside our ice marbles such as paper confetti, dinosaurs and animals. They loved watching to see which hidden object would appear from the melted ice first and what exactly each ice marble held. They are certainly becoming great little scientists.
We would like to share this little gallery of outdoor play in the Rainbow Room one recent morning. Painting with mud was very popular with some, as the children created artwork using the resources available to them.
Another group decided to make their own hotel using cones, pipes, cable reels and other bits and pieces they found outdoors. In case you are wondering, the watering can on the top of their hotel is the sprinkler to put out fires in the hotel. What a great idea! As always, our children prove themselves to be so creative in their use of resources.
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As well as the children learning about the weather and how to record it, they also have great fun enjoying all weathers in outdoor play. It is difficult to resist a great big puddle so this little group decided to investigate it when they spotted it in the school playground. Who needs sunshine to enjoy outdoor play? This puddle paddling was much more fun.
Weather watching is very popular in both rooms in our Nursery. Wind socks, thermometers and rain gauges are checked on a daily basis and the children’s findings are recorded. The children have used the camera to record evidence on their equipment and have begun to record temperatures on charts, developing independence, taking on responsibilities and developing their numeracy skills.
Children’s imagination and creativity never cease to amaze us. These photos captured the play of a little group who decided to make their own fire engine immediately after our recent fire practice. They used materials in the garden to create their own engine complete with wheels and hoses then spent ages playing imaginatively in it. Great work children!
We have had a few pirates in Nursery recently as the children used their imagination outdoors with the materials that they could find. These crates certainly seem to have caught their interest and the children always seem to be able to create an exciting adventure from basic materials. We even had a plank for them to walk. Happy travels young pirates.
Jacob’s family liked the photo of him playing outdoors:
“He could play with sand, water or mud all day if he got the chance, he loves messy play like this.”
It’s certainly great fun playing outdoors and so many children do enjoy messy play, whether indoors or out.
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