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This week indoors the children have been continuing to explore People Who Help Us. We adapted our home corner into a cafe, the children created their own menus and taking on the role of a waitress/waiter, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play.

The children have also been creating their own stories in relation to People Who Help Us, developing their imaginative and fine motor skills.

In the creative area we have began to look at Chinese new year, making our own Chinese lanterns, challenging ourselves to create a pattern. We have also been using the internet to research and explore Chinese traditions, looking at dragon dances and the zodiac symbols for animals, learning it was the year of the horse.

Links to the Curriculum; RME, Literacy, Health and Wellbeing.

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Outdoors this week the children have been working alongside Becca to revamp the outdoor area. The children have made clear defined areas outdoors, we have a new cosy shelter for children to explore in and some children have enjoyed a story in our cosy shelter. Some children enjoyed exploring with the small loose part materials in the small world area, using their imagination throughout.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Social Studies.

This week the ECC had a special visitor- Ziggy and his Road Safety Roadshow. The children had the opportunity to enjoy songs and games based all around road safety and how to keep safe whilst travelling in the community. Each child received a Ziggy bag home to enjoy.

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This week the children have continued to explore ‘People Who Help Us’ through constructing their own models and designs, using their problem solving and imaginative skills. Some children created hospital beds using construction materials for their midwifery ward and were seen role playing with their peers.

Some children used the construction materials to retell the story of ‘The Billy Goats Gruff’.

The children had the opportunity to explore the valentines sensory tray ‘spreading the love’ as the children were saying. Creating different valentines potions.

The children have also enjoyed role playing in the home corner, as a cafe, serving one another food, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play. To further extend children’s interests we will create a cafe in the home corner.

All children had the opportunity to create a valentine craft to take home to someone special.

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

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This week the children have been exploring People Who Help Us, exploring the different job roles and how their role might help us. They have enjoyed using their imaginative skills in the role play area, taking on the role of e.g. a doctor, police officer, fire fighter, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play. All children have knowledge of People Who Help Us however, we explored the children’s learning in more depth with a focus on doctors and hospitals. Some children were able to identify body parts and the name for specific body parts, some children were exploring x-ray photographs on the light box.

For our STEM focus this week the children have been exploring direction using the bee-bots with Rebecca our STEM champion.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies, Science, Technology.

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Outdoors this week we have had a focus on feelings, linking with the upcoming Mental Health Week. Whilst we had parents visiting, the children and their parents took part in a colour monster scavenger hunt, focusing on how being outdoors makes our bodies feel strong and our minds feel happy. The children have been exploring forces by creating their own vehicles and building race tracks to explore this. They also created their own data handling tally score in relation to how far something travels.

The children were also being very creative in the mud kitchen, working together as part of a team creating their own menus.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Science, Numeracy, Technology.

W o o d l a n d   W e d n e s d a y-

This week the children were using their senses to explore, catching snow in their tongues,  participating in risky play and challenge.