It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the blocks and small world area. The children have been building and decorating Christmas trees, using their problem solving skills to hang baubles on the bricks and add tinsel without the tree falling over. The children made wooden Christmas trees and hung little baubles on them which encouraged practice of counting, creating patterns and discussion of 2D/3D shape. In the small world, we have loved listening to the Christmas story and reenacting this using our nativity characters. Lastly, the children have been keen to wrap toys we have in the nursery and give them to their friends to open. What a magical time of year!
To develop fine motor control and creativity, the children have been working on decorating some paper trees, stockings and baubles using gems, buttons and pom poms to create our own designs. Some children created their own 2 and 3 colour/ shape patterns, whilst others were able to continue some simple patterns.
In the garden we have been investigating light using the torches and everyday objects. We tried to predict whether the light would pass through or stop and used a table to record our findings. We then experimented with other items!
“I’m going to test it” – BH
“It change, it big” – SR
“It shines through a wee bit” – MJ
“It’s because that’s clear and that’s not” – RA
“It go!” – NH
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all next week for our final week of fun before we break for the holidays.
Love Mrs Denholm x
