Thank you to those who attended our Grandparent’s Pop in and Play. It was lovely to have our special visitors in to play! Intergenerational work in early years involves creating opportunities for young children and older adults to interact, build relationships, and engage in shared experiences, benefitting both generations by fostering empathy and communication skills in children and leading to improved well-being for all involved. Here are some wonderful pictures.
This week in the sewing area we have been busy making our very own puppets based on characters from ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. The children drew their characters on foam and then cut them out themselves, before sewing things on to them. They used buttons for eyes, wool for hair and used the thread to make a smiley mouth. Some children took these home and others kept them to use in our puppet show which one of the children suggested we have.
The children decorated our homemade theatre using pens, glitter and sequins and then it was time to start our show! The children had great fun acting out the story and were able to recall the events from the book. They took on the roles of different characters and used different tones when talking as the characters. Some children also made up their own stories and acted these out too!
This week in the literacy area the children have been exploring letters of the alphabet.They continued to match their upper case letters and their case lower case letters (big letters to baby letters). The children also went on a letter hunt around the playroom and the garden and made positive attempts within their mark making to replicate the letters that they found developing their letter formation.
This week in the creative area we have been using the emotion mirrors to talk about and draw how we feel. The children have spoken about what makes them feel happy, sad, excited, angry, nervous, worried and sleepy. We have been looking at the details on our faces and how they change when our emotions change.
ML – I’m happy when I get peace and quiet.
FM – I get sad when I miss mummy, daddy and my sister.
NF – I get surprised about going on holidays and when it’s my birthday.
JW – I’m excited that Mrs Howie is in today.
OC – I get happy when my friends come to my birthday party.
This week in our outdoor area we have embraced the very wet weather and made use of the learning opportunities rain brings! Even in the wet weather our children like to explore our outdoor area. The children have also been designing and creating at our woodwork bench in our outdoor classroom and you can see some of their wonderful creations below!
