Developing our fine motor skills

We made dried orange slices decorated with cloves and cinnamon; the children used their pincer grip to pick up tiny cloves and place them delicately into their orange slice before drying them in the oven. The smell was incredible.

Concentrating faces

Den building 

Frosty fun making marks

Whittling with potato peelers.

Vegetable peelers are perfect for removing the bark from branches to reveal the bright clean natural colour of each branch. Each whittled branch is tied together to form a big abstract tree which will be on display for our mince pie and mingle.

Magnetic transient art

Mince pie and Mingle

 

How do you like your eggs in the morning 🍳

Following the mud kitchen eggs the children had the opportunity to make scrambled eggs and toast for snack.

Thumbs up all round

Crisp walks for festive crafts

 

Jack Frost has been

“Looking for ice”

Smashing frozen sand “snowballs ”

 

Winter sun is fun

Festive play dough

Busy at work exploring festive text.

“Same”

Finding the matching pairs proved to be popular. 

Chopping and preparing a salad for snack.

The children loved the responsibility of helping to peel and chop a variety of veggies for their salad. Although the taste test proved unpopular.

A black play dough kinda day

Building friendships

Helping hands

 

 

Pride in our achievements 

Moving our bodies with confidence 

Emotional check ins

 

Paper pizzas

The children used paint, glue and collage materials to design and make pizzas with various toppings. There was lots of descriptive language as they chose their toppings.

“triangle cheese” “grated cheese” “pepperoni “ “cabbage”

The paper pizzas were so popular we followed the children’s interest and made real pizzas. We used tortilla wraps, Passata, cheese, onion and ham. The children had the freedom to chop, grate and choose their individual toppings.

Thumbs up all round for our pizza snack

 

“Horsey”

Apple break

 

Dobbies Garden Center day out.

3 Lions, 3 ladybirds and a cheeky frog went on the first trip of the year to Dobbies garden center. We all went on the mini bus thanks to Amanda our community practitioner.

We explored the toy section, dinosaurs and the cute plush toys proving most popular.

We took a quick peek at all the different sizes of fish and “so cool” aquarium ornaments.

We snuck into Santa’s grotto before he came to visit from the North Pole.

It was magical. The children loved the realist woodland animals and had the chance to sit in Santa’s big fluffy chair.

Toast snack break and a cookie

Buying decorations for our tree

Colour matching 

People who help us: Roles in the community 

 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 the remix

Real tools

The children are learning to keep themselves safe using real tools: hammers and screwdrivers with screws and nails. They are developing fine motor skills and hand to eye coordination.

Monster models

Play dough proved popular along with googly eyes, pumpkin seeds, dry pasta and spaghetti.

Turn taking matching game

Poppy painting with vegetables 

Shape matching 

 

The children have shown a strong interest in dinosaurs. We have a giant book full of dinosaurs describing where they lived, what size they were and what they loved to eat.

“Maybe it’s going to be a mummy dinosaur and a baby dinosaur”

Palaeontologists in the making.

The children had the opportunity to take on the role of a Palaeontologist and dig for dinosaur bones/skeletons in frozen wet sand. It took patience and skill but all the fossils were found safely.

Discovering where dinosaurs lived before they died 

“Same”

“Before the dinosaurs died, did they ride horses cause there wasn’t any cars yet”

“We live here in Kilmarnock ” “beside Glasgow”

We scratched off all the places that dinosaur fossils had been found. The map scratching became very popular.