The creative area this week has slowly been turning into a Jurassic world!

‘Can we make a volcano?’ NF

‘It needs to be red and yellow cause that’s the colour of lava.’ BS

‘It’s all sticky on my hands.’ AK

‘Do you know I’ve seen a real volcano before?’ AP

‘We made a real volcano its over there but it doesn’t have real lava coming out of it.’ AP

‘I want to make a t-rex.’ MMc

‘Can I make a hot air balloon.’ MS

‘Do you know dinosaurs lived 55million years ago.’ EB

‘It needs spikey bits.’ AP

‘See dinosaurs, I think they have massive poops.’ MMc

‘I’m making a unicorn, do you know I actually really want to see a real unicorn.’ MMc

‘I’m going to wrap this  round like a big mountain.’ AP

‘Dino poop, I seen that at the movies.’ AC

‘I’ve got brown at the stalk and the leaves are the green.’ MMc

‘Dinosaurs lived 145 16 100 years ago and then what happened the big freeze. Actual looked like a real freeze. Know how the dinosaurs died, they comed and the comet hit and the lava hit and it freezed the dinosaurs.’ AP

‘Do you know dinosaurs are magic? They can fly like dragons. Pterodactyls are the goodest of them all and they fly.’ MMc

‘The funny one has the neck on it.’ AP

‘The dinosaurs lived before humans.’ GMc

‘I’m making this for the dinosaurs. They roar so loudly and knock down trees.’ JG

‘They stomp so loudly.’ AK

‘They have pickles on their faces.’ JG

‘Dinosaurs lived a long time ago, they were really big and also had big feet and they had a swimming pool. The lake was their swimming pool.’ MMc

‘Well I did  watch something about dinosaurs and there was a big fire, it was like a big fireball a long long time ago and all the dinosaurs had only bones left.’ RF

‘They stomp their feet and they roar.’ AF

‘I found a dinosaur in my garden.’ ML

‘I know about prehistoric things. Did you know there is a dinosaur called a terasaur. They are the biggest and there’s all types of them. The biggest terasaurs are even bigger than a giraffe and some can fly. But the biggest terasaur are dinosaurs but they are flying lizards like reptiles and that’s what they are. Dinosaurs eat anything.’ CE

‘We could make dinosaur bones and dinosaur teeth and paint them yellow.’ CE

‘We could call it dinosaur village.’ MMc

This week in the discovery area the children have continued their curiosity of magnetic forces. The children explored directional movement as they positioned their bodies and magnets  to direct the metal ball through the paint to create their directional marks. The children worked together to create their collaborative art work and used positional language to describe their movements.

HC “It feels like the wind” ( magnetic forces)

RF “There is a big metal bit inside”

“ I need to go quite fast to make it move”

MM “ my magic wand is a magnet”

BH “when it spins it means it turns”

This week in the discovery area the children have also looked at the digital artist David Hockney and have made positive attempts to replicate some of his art using our whiteboard interactive screen. The children were able to discuss the art work and say what they liked and disliked and explored the visual elements within their mark making such as line, colour, and pattern.

RL “ this one is of trees, they have patterns on it-this is a spotty bit”

BS “I need to go on a chair for my long lines”

“I’m already an artist, I draw pictures for my mummy at home and she loves them”

“There is little blue dots and lines”

NF “I don’t like that one- I don’t like the big blobs”

“I like the one with the trees and sun”

“ I’m doing big marks for the trees”

In the sewing area the children have been using lists to plan and make choices in their day. They have shown an interest in creating their own characters and puppets, using paper to design and tracing their ideas onto fabric to decorate and sew. 

Some of the children have been helping Ms Lafferty to create a new wall display for our sewing area. 

This week we have been exploring numeracy and mathematics outside through different games. We have been using our gross motor skills to get the basketballs and footballs in different nets, we split ourselves into teams and kept score of our points by using tally marks. We have also been working on our mark making skills and reading different types of dice. In doing this we created a game where we circled the number or the amount of dots we had, we were able to match the dice to these.