I n d o o r s –

This week in the ECC the children have been interested in building and creating their own houses. They have been looking at the architecture of a house, the different materials used to build a house and different house types. The children have had the opportunity to use a variety of materials to construct their own designs, using descriptive language throughout.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Health and Well-being.

O u t d o o r s –

This week the children have been exploring in the mud kitchen using loose parts, making their own recipes and focusing on how items may change consistencies and some children even used herbs from the outdoor garden.
The children have also been exploring forces in the water and using the large pipes and measuring equipment.
Some children have shown an interest in numbers outdoors, participating in number hunts with their peers and completing number challenges.

We also visited the community garden to see the progress of our pumpkins.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Well-being, Science, Numeracy.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

I n d o o r s –

This week the children have been further exploring the characteristics of a castle, exploring the structure of a castle and the materials used to build a castle. The children have also been exploring block play further, introducing large blocks which provided depth to their learning in terms of constructing their own designs and utilising their imagination and problem solving skills. The children also used ICT to research castles for inspiration. Some children explored the fantasy aspects of castles, exploring potion making in the water tray and adding their own materials and herbs from the outdoor garden.

The children made their own stained glass windows where they looked at shape, colour and design. These are how displayed in the ECC. Some children also made their own shields, marking making with control to design their shields.

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

O u t d o o r s –

The children have continued to explore pirates outdoors, building their own pirate ships and ‘walking the plank’. We have started to introduce the concept of treasure and what this might mean to others. Next week we will explore this further to provide depth in children’s learning.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Social Studies, Health and Well-being.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

I n d o o r s –

This week in the ECC the children have been further exploring dragons, investigating dragon sounds, what dragons look like and we have began creating our own 3D dragon. The children have also been using loose part materials to problem solve whilst creating their own designs.

A focus has been made on routines, sharing, turn taking and boundaries in the ECC.

Health and Wellbeing, Technology, Social Studies, Literacy.

O u t d o o r s-

This week the children have been role playing outdoors, using their imagination whilst exploring with the small world pirate ship and small figures. The children have also continued to construct their own pirate ships using large building materials and transporting materials in the outdoor area in order to utilise to support with constructing their designs.

This week the children also created their own pirate flags outdoors and used the ipad to research the meaning of the skull and cross bone on a flag which means they are ready to fight. The children have been very keen to fact find about pirates to extend their knowledge.

Technology, Social Studies, Expressive Arts.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.