In the garden , the children have been discussing Halloween and have been intrigued by pumpkins especially!
After we discussed what we could do with pumpkins we had a great idea of making pumpkin soup!
We collected lots of different ingredients we wanted to add to our yummy soup!
we even added some red food colouring to give it a nice colour!
Once the soup was made we sat down together and ate it all up… yum yum!!
The children in the 3-5 room have been engaged in different rhyming experiences this week, and have shown an interest in a variety of rhyming nursery songs and story books too. We have been talking about words that “sound the same at the end” and what that means. We have had lots of fun games like “find the rhyme”. Maybe you could play something like this at home! Start by finding an object, and try to find a word that sounds the same at the end (or rhymes). Some examples we had in nursery were “sock” and “rock” or “spoon” and “moon”. It can be as simple or as complicated as you want 🙂
We have been enjoying our rhyming and singing nursery rhymes so much that Book Bug even came for a visit to hear it!! We look forward to hearing what rhyming objects you can find over the weekend 🙂
This week the children in the Home Room have been creating their own fabulous pictures with transient art.
‘Transient art is simply moveable art’. The children are getting creative using loose parts such as stones, shells, buttons etc, to create pictures using their imagination.
Transient art allows children to make a picture 100 different ways, rather than having 1 end product when gluing and sticking.
The children added blue playdough to their pictures and pretended they were at the seaside and the playdough was the sea.
“Look at the waves in the sea, they are very big”
They even made 3D pictures. “Look the bird is sticking out of the picture”
This experience can be explored indoors and outdoors and can often lead from collecting sticks, stones, leaves etc. when out a local walk.
The children had lots of fun creating their own pictures, why dont you have a turn at home, when at the park or out a walk?
Welcome to Cart Mill Airways, were our pilots welcome you aboard our new aeroplane!
Our new state of the art aircraft was designed and constructed by the children in the Discovery room.
The design process was well thought out, we used our smart board to explore different aircrafts such as Concorde, Boeing 747 and Jet planes before we built ours.
The children worked together to build the aeroplane. They used different size and shaped blocks along with loose parts.
We also created a flight menu for you to enjoy while you fly with us.
Today’s flight is to Australia 🇦🇺
Today the children worked together while building the air craft. This developed their communication and language skills. We also Role played different roles such as pilot and air hostess.
We can’t wait to welcome you aboard our next flight. Where will our next destination be?
What a beautiful day it is🌞
After discussions last week on how to keep cool in the sun, the children decided they wanted to open their own ice cream parlour.
we used:
The children used different sized spoons and bowls to mix the foam and chocolate power to make chocolate ice cream. They then mixed red food colouring to make strawberry ice cream.
“We need to add more chocolate powder, I cant smell it properly”
“I’m going to have a pink cone”
”I’m scooping the ice cream, it’s very slippy”
” I made a unicorn Ice cream, it’s gooey”
We made our ice cream cones in the shade while we had a break from the sun.
The children used their senses to smell and touch the foam with their hands.
They used their counting skills to count how many scoops of ice cream it took to fill the cone.
Our children have had lots of lovely stories to share with us of decorating their Christmas trees at home with their families. They decided that as we have our very own Cart Mill Christmas tree growing in our garden, we should decorate it!
After much discussion, we decided that we would make our decorations a little different using some of the beautiful pine cones that were kindly dontated to us. Of course at Cart Mill we do love a little bit of sparkle, so out came the glue and glitter (sorry Michelle!)The children chose their own colour of glitter and ribbon and worked very hard to decorate their pine cones. We then had lots of fun hanging them on our tree. Doesn’t it look beautiful!
A few of our children chatted about the decorations they had outside our houses and some had “special things” on their front door. We had a look at some pictures and decided we would make our very own Cart Mill Christmas wreath. We had a look around our garden and decided we really needed to collect some “interesting things” to put on our wreath. The children remembered we had seen some leaves and pine cones at our Forest School site so we decided we would go foraging to see what we could find!
The children excitedly changed into their Forest School waterproofs and wellies and we set off, we were so lucky that Val and Blue decided to come with us! Our children had lots of fun foraging and found some beautiful confier foliage, ivy, rosehip and holly. This sparked lots of interesting discussion on how ivy grows up trees “to touch the sky” and that “holly is very jaggy so you have to be careful” and that “we must not eat berries we find in the forest” and ” we need to wash our hands when we get back” Great work boys and girls!
We were so excited to start making our wreath. We have been learning about patterns in nature and the children carefully examined all of our leaves and pine cones and spotted lots of different patterns such as “spirals”, “jaggy bits round the edges, they look like triangles” and that our leaves “have lots of different lines on them” you are so clever boys and girls!
We decided to “stick” our different leaves to some cardboard to make our wreath. The children correctly identified we should make our wreath in the shape of a circle. We decided this should be an adult job (with the children giving me some advice on how I should hold my scissors and that I should be careful). We decided to try and stick our leaves with some glue. We were able to glue on our smaller leaves but we needed to do a bit of problem solving as our conifer foliage was “too heavy and keeps falling off”. We decided we should try to staple on our leaves. We decided this was an adult job and that the children could help by “squashing down Fiona’s hand to make them stick”. The children chose where to place our leaves and of course they decided we must have some extra special sparkle and a great big bow! We had so much fun and our wreath will look fabulous on our outdoor stage.
Finally, yes it has been a very creative week in our garden, we decided to make one last decoration. Paper chains! The children demonstarted excellent team work, sharing and fine motor skills in threading our strips of paper, glueing them together and making sure everyone had a turn. Our children were so clever to identify their own patterns by using different colours in sequence. We decided to see how long we could make our chain and to see if it would stretch all the way along our garden. Our children proudly held onto their chain and they counted that it was 28 children long! Amazing work boys and girls.
We would love you to share any Christmas decorations you have made at home with us.
The children have all been enjoying watching the ‘McDougalls Christmas Party’. There has been lots of dancing, singing and laughing! The children particularly found the jokes from the Christmas crackers funny!!
‘What did one snowman say to another snowman?’
‘I smell carrots!’
’What did Santa’s little helper learn at school?’
’The elfabet!’
This certainly got us into the Christmas spirit!! We saw a cheeky elf, Santa and a Christmas fairy visiting the McDougalls. We had great fun doing the Hokey Cokey. It’s a big thumbs up for the pantomime from the children at Cart Mill.
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