We have been so busy in our sewing corner this week as we continue to focus on developing our fine motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination.
As we grow in confidence, we can use scissors safely to self select and prepare our own materials and we demonstrated fabulous concentration and perseverance when threading our own needles as “it can be a wee bit tricky!”.
“It’s a wee bit hard to cut the wool”
”I’ll hold it and you cut it”
“I’m choosing blue. My mummy likes blue”
To develop our threading skills further, we decided to see how many tubes of pasta we could thread onto our wool.
How did we do this?
”we putted the thread on the needle”.
”we had to tie a knot so it didn’t fall off”
”I putted the needle through the pasta and pulled it down. Then I did another one”
”you need to tie the bottom so the pasta doesn’t fall off”
It was a “a wee bit tricky” to push the needle through the pasta but we used our problem solving skills and discovered it was easier “if we hold it up cos it slides down”.
When we had finished our terrific threading we decided to work as a team and measure our creations to see which one was the longest, and practised our brilliant counting skills to see how many pasta tubes were on each “snake, wiggly worm and necklace”.
“Look I makes a wiggly worm”
”mine is a snake”
”mines a snake too!”
”my snake is bigger than yours. I’ve got 15 pastas”
”yours is the smallest and mines is the biggest”
Using our knowledge and experience, we have been able to demonstrate a good understanding of our safety rules and share this with our new friends, listen to and follow instructions and work both as a team and independently.
We have decided to have a meeting tomorrow to discuss what we would like to create next week!
Article 31~ I have the right to relax and play.
