Indoor Learning

The children explored the music room in the school this week.  They were introduced to a variety of musical instruments, drums, maracas, bells and tambourine. The children focused on “beat” and learned to tap out their name  on the instruments.

Curriculum Links: Expressive Arts.

We have been beginning to introduce Christmas as it’s all the children are talking about.  Yes it’s only November but the children are busy preparing!  The elves  in Santa’s workshop have been busy making items for the Christmas Fayre.

Indoors-

This week in the ECC we have been celebrating Nursery Rhyme week 🎶

We have been focusing on reciting our rhymes, identifying rhyming words and the odd one out. Parents also attended the ECC to participate in song and rhyme time with their child, thank you to all who attended 🤩 🎶

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Numeracy, Expressive Arts.

This week group 4 attended the woods and began exploring and risk assessing the woodland area. The children also enjoyed discussing the weather and the changes in the weather ☔️ 🌧 The children were also using their senses to explore 👀 👃 🖐

This week we are continuing to learn about our bodies but not just our bones but what we can do with our bodies and what they look like.

In the outdoor water tray we’ve been exploring and discussing how blood travels around our body.  We’ve learned new vocabulary such as “arteries, veins and organs”.  The children gained an understanding of how the heart pumps blood through the veins and arteries around our body and to the main organs.  The children proved to be extremely knowledgeable and created their own veins and arteries using pipes to transport blood to different areas of the body.🫀

Indoors we used the mirror to look at the colour of our eyes and length of our hair as some children were curious about different colours of eyes.

 

Gym Tuesday 🤸‍♀️

Some children enjoyed participating in exercises involving balance and co-ordination. We briefly discussed the purpose of our muscles and used the iPad to research information and fact’s relating. Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles?👀 🦵💪

Woodland Wednesday🌳

We began exploring the local woodland area and took part in risk assessing and decision making. As a group they showed great listening skills and practiced Safe Sam, Healthy Hamble and Responsible Racoon from our SHANARRI indicators.

We made skeleton hands using pasta, our own hand prints and glue.🦴

As part of world science day, the children participated in paint splatting and observed what gravity does to the paint 🎨

We discussed our five senses before closing our eyes and smelling/touching what was inside the jars. 🍊 🍃🌾😖These included orange peels, lavender, mint leaves and vinegar 🤭

Hope to see you there 😜

Lynnette x

𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕤

This week we celebrated Halloween by dressing up and enjoying our ECC party 🎉 Well done to all the children as their costumes were amazing 😊 We enjoyed some party games and dancing before having a special treat that was very kindly donated by the parent council 👻🎃🍭

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Expressive arts, RME

As we are beginning to learn about ‘The human body’ 💀 Some children used the promethean board to investigate various aspects of the body and explore the skeletal body and it’s structure. 🦴 We have been exploring the different names of our bones and creating our own skeleton images using various materials. We also have investigated some real X-ray images of bones and will continue to explore this in the coming weeks.

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Health and well-being, technologies, literacy

𝕆𝕦𝕥𝕕𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕤

Outdoors this week the children have been exploring the importance of keeping our bodies healthy and discussing different ways in which we can support this, including exercise. We have been exploring the changes that take place in our body pre and post workout including the rhythm of our hearts. We have also been using chalk to draw around each other and some children enjoyed discussing our organs, identifying various body part’s and their purpose 🧠🫁🫀👁👂👄

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Health and well-being, literacy, numeracy

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and see you Monday 🤗