Day: November 13, 2021

In the courtyard this week we have been talking about how we get to Oakburn and the different modes of transport. Each day we have added a mode of transport to our area, speaking about safety on the roads, holding an adults hand and things that we may see on our journey to nursery. We even added some road shapes, to encourage our shape recognition through play. The children have also been busy creating their own traffic light and are able to identify the red as stop and green as go!

They have also been talking about ice cream and the different colours, we have identified our favourite colours and used this to create a sensory experience for the children using shaving foam! A favourite was strawberry ice cream 🍦🍓

In the Art area the children have been using different resources to develop their mark making and fine motor skills and different shapes. We used flour, salt and glitter to mark make with our fingers and try to draw different shapes. We used the dinosaurs to make footprint paintings counting how many steps the dinosaurs 🦕 needed to cross the page.

A few children were keen to explore our sea animals, the adults scaffolded their learning with a creative provocation and jigsaws. A few children developed their fine motor skills as they manipulated the pieces into place. G.M was able to make number “1”, a “circle” and a “rainbow” in the paint. C.M was able to sing the 5 little duck song with encouragement. The children participated in a relaxing sensory light experience as they learned the sea animals.

 

In the malleable area this week we have been exploring ice by saving superheroes. The children worked together as a team to discover ways we can set them free. We used warm water and tools to break through them. We discussed words such as melting, temperature, freezing, solid and liquid.

We have been discussing how to keep safe from germs by washing out hands regularly. 🦠 We participated in a hand washing experience in the water tray, washing the hands properly to ensure there were no germs. 🧼 We have also been discussing our mental health and emotions, exploring how we feel each day. We have shown this by making self portraits using our transient art, we looked into the mirror and talked about if our faces looked happy, sad, angry etc. 😁

 

This week in the expressive area, the children have shown an interest in mark making. To support this interest, we have been designing tiles for a tile gallery to showcase the children’s lovely work. We have been using acrylic paint pens and tiles to design our own individual tiles. 🎨

We have continued to explore our interest in mark making as we have been mark making with a variety of materials. We have been mark making with paint and chopsticks this week, some of the children have also been mark making by dipping their fingers into the paint.

We have continued to explore our interest in mark making as we have been mark making with a variety of materials. We have been mark making with paint and chopsticks this week, some of the children have also been mark making by dipping their fingers into the paint.

 

This week in the Expressive Area, the children have continued to show an interest in babies and caring for babies. We have explored changing the babies nappies and dressing the babies this week, the children have really enjoyed learning some of the skills required to look after a baby. 🍼

This week in the construction Area we have been focusing on health week! Therefore, using loose parts and real potato’s we created our own mr and mrs potato heads! The children seemed to have really enjoyed this activity therefore, I brought in real potato heads for the children to construct through symbolic and schematic

This week at Oakburn it has been health week. The children were interested in making smoothies. Learning about eating the right foods to keep us healthy.🍌🍎🥝.

The children helped to prepare the ingredients cutting into small pieces and adding ingredients of their choice. Some children told us they shopped at Asda and Tesco and they help choose their own healthy snacks.

The children were very engrossed in this experience and told me we have to wash hands with hot soapy water, then sit nice and use one hand to hold the ingredient and use the other hand to chop the ingredient safely, using the green chopping board as that is for fruit and salad ingredients.🔪🧑‍🍳