Monday

Think Equal – This week we are continuing to explore the first book of the Think Equal programme  entitled Me, My self and I. This story encourages a positive sense of attitude, developing self worth and self esteem and recognises/values similarities/differences between themselves and others.  We have been exploring the ‘WOW’ words relating to this story which are Self, Same and Different. We have engaged in activities relating to the story including drawing a picture of ourselves on a jigsaw shaped piece of paper then collating all the jigsaw pieces to create one big picture. This symbolises that we all fit together to create a whole! If any person is missing from the puzzle it wouldn’t be complete showing we are all special parts of our groups.

Today some our children enjoyed exploring in the mud pit using descriptive language to describe the mud e.g.  “It’s sticky” “It’s squelchy” “It’s soft and runny”.  The sand was also explored by some children by experimenting with different resources develop our mark making skills.

Tuesday

Today we gathered together with SIMOA to discuss keeping safe during our community walk to the harbour.  We discussed how to keep ourselves safe – “By holding hands” “By stopping, looking and listening when crossing the road”. All children then listened to the Ziggy and the lollipop road safety story.                                                                   Some children enjoyed exploring a variety of autumnal themed natural resources at the art area before creating a variety of paintings and models.

Wednesday

Water play was popular with several children today. They experimented by pouring and filling  a variety of different shaped/sized vessels whilst also developing their measuring skills, sense of volume and exploring the force of  water when being poured etc.  The element of force was also being explored in our brick area by a few children during which they built a variety of different angled ramps to experiment how fast/slow the cars rolled down. Lots of mark making was explored by almost all children today on the new smart board creating lots of discussion/use of language to share their work/ideas with their peers.

 

 

 

Thursday

Today as part of our garden renovation/tidy some children helped dig up the rotten ‘balance’ logs which weren’t safe. Some of the other children helped sweep, and tidy other areas of the garden.  Almost all children demonstrated their turn taking skills whilst developing their gross motor skills on our climbing cubes. Some children used words of encouragement to those that were a bit unsure!

 

 

 

 

Friday

Today some children created a bus using an old unit. They experimented/explored different ways of making the bus move. They decided tying a rope to the end was the best way of moving the bus! “Can I get on your bus?” “How many people can get on?”
A few children helped the grown ups dig the big stones out the mud pit and through children’s voice almost all children voted on what they would like the new mud pit and mud kitchen  to look like! A few children represented/shared their ideas through role play in the dolls house developing language and turn taking skills. Some children enjoyed using a variety of media to mark make sharing their ideas with others developing their writing/mark making skills.