Tag: technologies

Outdoor Projects

Construction is always popular both inside and outdoors and the children like nothing better than to become involved in a little project together that they will then be able to use in their play. This gallery demonstrates examples of this as you can see children making their own roads, investigation panel and music display. Regardless of weather, the children are happy to busy themselves with important tasks to create resources that they then love to use. What great satisfaction it brings when you can play with something you have made yourself!

Mondrian Art

The children in the Rainbow Room spent some time last term looking at the work of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings.

They thought carefully about where to position their lines and which sections of their art work to fill with colour. As well as using pens, coloured paper and solid shapes were used on slate to create work in the style of Mondrian in different ways and the children developed their skills in Technologies by taking photos of their work.

Build A Dinosaur

Just look at the super teamwork happening here with some of the children from the Raindrop Room last term as they decided to create their own dinosaur. They had lots of discussion about what their dinosaur would look like and used a range of resources to create it. It was lovely to see them working so well together and they all had a sense of achievement once they had completed their work. Well done everyone involved.

Super Work Robin

We have been hearing about what Robin has been doing while Nursery has been closed and have some lovely photos to share of him building with his bricks and of a super bird feeder that he made. We are very impressed with your writing too Robin.

Very well done Robin! The birds will love visiting your feeder and that will always be a reminder in your garden of this time as you grow up. Thank you so much for sharing your super photos.

Annan High Street

After last term’s visit to the High Street, which we shared in a recent post, the children used their photos to create their own version of Annan High Street. Initially they made pencil drawings of the buildings they saw then they developed this further by creating models based on their photos and drawings.
We think the end result speaks for itself when you see their super buildings, road and cars travelling along their High Street. Just look at the concentration on those faces! Great work everyone!

Click on photos to make them bigger. I wonder if anyone has used junk to make models at home? We would love to hear about it if you have.

Learning About Our Community

As part of learning about our local community, some of the children from the Rainbow Room took their cameras to the High Street last term to record photos of a range of different buildings.
Discussing their personal experiences and the purpose of each building, they were then able to share their findings with their peers. Of course, while on the High Street they took the opportunity to look after our planter too.
We think that the children’s photos are super and that they showed great skills in using the cameras.
I wonder if any of the children can recognise the buildings from their photos and do they know what these buildings are used for?

Heart Rate

Energetic play has an important role to play in the children’s Health and Wellbeing development and most are more than happy to enjoy this, particularly outdoors. This little group of Rainbow Room children was learning about what happens to their bodies when they take exercise and they loved using technology to find out what was happening to their heart rate after spending time running as fast as they could.

Selfie Booth

After the ‘emotions’ self-portrait paintings by the Raindrop Room, we can share a different type of self-portrait as a result of the Rainbow Room’s ‘selfie booth’. The children developed their Technologies skills by using phones and the iPad to take photos of themselves. They loved experimenting with the technology to produce different types of photos and had great fun sharing the results with their friends. As you can see, this was certainly a very popular learning activity.

Stay And Play

The children love it when an adult from one of our families comes in to play and it was no exception when Skye’s Mummy stayed to help us bake scones. She gave the children lots of tips, as she often makes scones at home, so some delicious scones were produced in our kitchen that day.
We would love it if lots of grown-ups from our families stayed to play. You don’t have to provide an activity, simply join in the play and have fun to experience what a typical session is like for your child in Nursery. Why not just stay for an hour or so when you drop your child off or just pop in for a quick visit when you have a little free time? The children and staff would love you to stay and play any day.

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