{"id":924,"date":"2025-03-28T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/?p=924"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:54:35","slug":"week-beginning-24th-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/2025\/03\/28\/week-beginning-24th-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Beginning 24th March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday<\/p>\n

Today the sun was shining\ud83c\udf1e and we enjoyed exploring lots of different activities outdoors including creating music with a variety of instruments- learning their names, how to hold\/play them and listening to the different sounds they made\ud83e\udd41\ud83e\ude87. We explored different techniques of how to cover our models with paint. We tried different ways and decided we enjoyed experimenting with straws to blow the paint \ud83c\udfa8\ud83d\udd8c\ufe0f. Indoors our writing\/drawing table was very busy today with lots of children representing their ideas on paper using as variety of media. Some children expressed an interest in writing their names as well as other familiar words e.g. Mum and Dad.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday<\/p>\n

Today one of our children created his own game outdoors using chalk to mark make the shapes\/spaces \ud83d\udc63\u2b55\ufe0fneeded for the game. He then explained the rules to his peers and encouraged his peers to join in, altering his use of language to encourage some who were reluctant to join in! At the beach\ud83c\udfd6\ufe0f today we explored different ways of moving our bodies e.g. climbing\ud83e\uddd7 and rolling- using a variety of vocabulary to describe the texture\/feeling of the different surfaces they were climbing\/rolling on \u201cIt feels soft!\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s furry!\u201d \u201cThis bit\u2019s a bit spikey!\u201d \u201cThis rocks very hard \ud83e\udea8!\u201d We also observed the clouds describing the different shapes we could see!\u2601\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n

Today several of our children were sharing\/representing their ideas through role\/imaginative using the dinosaurs, building blocks. \u00a0A wide range of vocabulary was used whilst role playing\/discussing the different types of dinosaurs\ud83e\udd96\ud83e\udd95 i.e. size, what they ate, their names etc. Using a variety of different sized\/shaped bricks a castle was designed and built \u201cThe Queen\ud83d\udc78 and the Princess\ud83e\udec5 will live in the castle\ud83c\udff0 and we\u2019ve built a bedroom for them to sleep in!\u201d the children explained. One of our children designed, and created, a power station using the Lego and explained \u201cThe power puts electricity on in our houses\ud83d\udca1 but if we had a power cut nothing would work!\u201d Showing they have an understanding of electricity and the importance of electricity in our daily lives.\u26a1\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/p>\n

Today we explored a variety of different ring games during our gym session today\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udd7a. Developing \u00a0our turn taking, listening and gross motor skills. There were several conversations regarding fractions e.g wholes, halves, quarters etc. at the snack table with some children using knives to cut fruits into pieces\ud83c\udf74. Outside we explored the puddles looking at reflection , experimenting with different objects to see if they floated or sunk in the puddles. We also added some washing up liquid to the puddles to see what would happen when we jumped in the puddles. \u00a0\ud83d\udca6<\/p>\n

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Friday<\/p>\n

Today in Ferryport some children were representing their ideas in the sand tray \u201cWe\u2019re building a city!\u201d\ud83c\udfd9\ufe0f \u201cThere\u2019s a volcano there too!\u201d\ud83c\udf0b \u00a0This created lots of discussion about volcanoes erupting. We then developed our use of technology to search on the computer \ud83d\udcbb to see if we could find any live web cam footage of a volcano erupting. \ud83c\udf0bWe found one which is erupting in Miami at the moment! Our woodwork bench was popular today with some children experimenting with different materials to design, and create, their own hammers \ud83d\udd28using a variety of tools. We enjoyed a visit from one of our Mums who did a yoga session with our children. We did some stretching exercises before exploring several yoga poses including \u2018downward dog\u2019 \u2018cow\/dog\u2019 \u2018warrior\u2019 \u2018butterfly\u2019 \u2018tree\u2019 \u2018triangle\u2019 \u2018frog\u2019 amongst others. \ud83e\uddae\ud83d\udc08\ud83e\udd8b\ud83d\udc38\ud83c\udf33<\/p>\n

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