They filled and poured powered paint and water together using spoons and lolly sticks to mix and stir creating ârainbowsâ and different colours â red and blue make purple â
Today in home room we turned our pumpkin into a house for our little small world people..
We worked together to design our pumpkin house, discussing the different textures inside the pumpkin.
The children used their imagination to create their own role play stories. Even Santa and his dinosaur came to visit the pumpkin house and leave seeds to eat for his elves.
Santa left pumpkin seeds and the children made them into apples to eat.
Its been a busy day using all our creative thinking and design skill. What will you turn your pumpkin into at home? If you donât have a pumpkin why not draw your idea.
The children have been exploring their imagination by using the blocks as skis. They also demonstrated great problem-solving skills as they came up with different solutions to allow them to move around the room.
The children started using the single blocks to slide their feet but were finding it difficult to move. Some children were able to push off using the furniture.
The children were engaged in their play and started using the bigger blocks as ski poles.
As the children played we watched some ski videos to inspire their thoughts.
Please find below a link to our October Newsletter. Remember that next week is Dressing Up Week and you can come dressed up any or all of the days from Monday 26th October
Recently the children have been enjoying using wooden small world figures to create roleplay scenarios. This helps to fuel their creativity and extend their social skills
Witches, forests and potions
Roleplay is fabulous for promoting literacy skills and helps to develop language and expand thought patterns.
Over time the children have wanted to use the small world figures to tell their own stories. They have been developing their confidence through acting and performing their own thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
This story had Mummy, Daddy, the child and a pet frog
Roleplay and storytelling help children to explore and experiment through different scenarios, it can break down the walls of reality allowing them to explore something or someone different from themselves and it can also help them to make sense of or celebrate situations that happen in real life.
Princesses are a favourite character for the stories we are hearing just now
In the past, some of the children of Cartmill have taken part in Helicopter Stories (in a group setting a child makes up their own story, a teacher scribes it and reads it back to the group and then the child and their peers act it out).
This led to one of the children asking me to write down their story that they had made up with the small world figures – they wanted to share it with their family.
This first story spurred other children on and they have been asking to have their own stories recorded to take home aswell.
We have all enjoyed sharing stories with each other and hope any parents who have had some home have enjoyed them as well.
I can’t wait to see where our children’s imagination takes us next…
They decided to make Robots using “big” and “small” cardboard boxes and selected their own paints and materials such as sponges and paint brushes to paint their boxes.
” We chose orange and blue and green paint”
“We are going to glue heads on our robots”
When the boxes were dry the children glued them together to create their robots and decorated them using “sparkly gems” .
Junk modelling is a great way to provide our children with opportunities to develop their imagination and problem solving skills.
We are looking for more bits n bobs to add to our collection that you may have at home :
The toddlers have been very excited to have water play back in the garden. They have been learning to pour the water into different sized containers and were asking to have bubbles added. Some toddlers decided to water the plants in the garden as they needed a drink.
Our children enjoyed exploring our garden today and noticed that we had lots of spiders webs under our roof area.
We discussed how clever the spiders were in making their own webs and looked at the different shapes and sizes of each web. We pointed out all the lovely patterns the spiders had made.
We had a look through our books to see if we could find any other nature patterns. The children chose to look at our âSwirls in Natureâ book because it had spiders webs in it and lots of other lovely swirly patterns.
We drew some swirls on paper and the children had lots of fun using natural resources such as stones, pine cones and conkers to make a swirl pattern.
We would love to see any patterns in nature you might have found!
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Ghostly glueing. Exploring glue and developing hand eye coordination and using our fine motor skills.
Spooky spiders using play dough great for developing fine motor skills and enhancing hand eye coordination.
 
