Category: HWB

In the literacy area we have been supporting the children interest in music and dance. Creating visual supports to allow all of the children to participate. This week we have been learning 3 current buns turn taking and dancing with our friends. Our jingle bells and twinkle star puppets are helping us to practice for our Christmas songs. Ask us all about our Christmas stars. 

We have been exploring different ways to develop our Fine Motor Skills and concentration.  In our messy tray we investigated a dinosaur maze and frozen dinosaur eggs to include children’s interests from home as we find fun ways to learn new skills. We problem solved as we found different ways to help the dinosaurs escape. Our senses helped us to describe temperatures, textures and force.

Continuing the interest of dinosaurs we developed our numeracy skills counting from 1-5. Exploring what numerals look like and adding our pegs to the dinosaur spikes and counting out each amount to learn how many each numeral represents. 

Over the past few weeks in the home corner the children have enjoyed cutting different resources such as pumpkins, potatoes, and fruit. This week we introduced scissors and spaghetti. Some children commented on the soft spaghetti and how it was easier to cut. This continues to support our fine motor skills and concentration. 

In our loose parts area we have used our materials to print and talk about the different shapes they can create. Some children have been learning using their senses, we added shaving foam to our paint and recycled our cardboard to use as props in our construction area. 

In the creativity Room we have been exploring the signs of Autumn through transient art and loose parts . Children have been bringing items from home and walks and been using their imagination to create in their play, talking about the falling leaves changing colours and one child talked about the leaves dancing as they fall to the ground wearing gold red and brown.

We have been celebrating festivals around the season like Halloween and Diwali . We have been looking at some Rangoli designs making patterns with coloured rice which the children made with paint using their fine motor skills to lift and design with the rice.

Can I draw I was asked I would like to draw my very own pumpkin please because my hedgehog likes pumpkins and needs to eat before he goes to his long sleep . So I created a space for the children to draw,make,cut and stick reminding them to be safe with the scissors and they were . We used the book to find information about Autumn and also enjoyed a story about a bear that a long sleep which he called hibernation which the children asked lots of questions about .

It has been a very busy week in the Creativity Room lead by the children’s interests .