Oakburn Early years centre

In the malleable area we have been exploring the story ‘Rapunzel.’ While developing the children’s literacy skills by reading the story, we have been developing our fine motor skills by creating creations with pasta, clay, cereal and play dough which links to the story.

This week in the Acorn room the children have enjoyed developing their number skills through our Small world area which had the dinosaurs, focusing on numbers 0-5.

In the Art Area we have looked at different ways we can mark make using chunky chalk, pencils and paint.

Out in the Courtyard the children have been continuing to build friendships with their peers playing chasing games, turn taking on the see saw and exploring pasta in our water tray.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

🤩 Our Discovery area had a little bit of a transformation on Monday when we created a dressing up zone! So many different costumes to choose from. I wonder who we could be today??🤔😍

A Police Officer ? A Lollypop Person ? A Fire Fighter ? Or maybe a Superhero ?!

The children have fully embraced these role play experiences!🙌🙌It has been a joy to see them creating their own little adventures and using their imaginations!😍

This week in the construction area we introduced some more new and advanced tools! 🔨🥽👏

Whilst using the saw It is a strict 1:1 ratio.

Before constructing any woodwork if the children wished to participate we must conduct a risk assessment.

We spoke for a short time and I quizzed the children on the rules to see if they fully understood them. Once completed the children signed their own signature to say they fully understood the rules of woodwork !

The children that participated had lots of fun creating their own masterpieces and were so proud of the accomplishments! I can’t wait to see what else they create in the future!

Here are a few of the children’s work !👏😁👍🔨

Christmas tree

Shark

Jack hammer

This week Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ⭐️ has been the nursery rhyme of the fortnight , the boys and girls have been practising  singing this fabulously 🤗. We have been very busy at the easel , we have been creating our very own sparkly and Shiney diamonds 💎🔶 using a variety of Shiney and glittery materials . Developing fine motor skills by gluing and sticking 🥰.

We have also made our own stars ⭐️ using lollipop sticks and some gems to make them shine 🤩. Well done everyone for all your hard work 👏 please keep singing 🎤 at home 🏠.

A few children had been exploring the garden in the rain, the children saw a worm in the mud. We scaffolded their learning by creating a bug hunt using mini beast resources. The children used magnifying glasses and tweezers to pick the bugs. This developed their fine motor skills.

Our little Acorns have been  provided with experiences/resources that support their interest of learning through their senses.

This week the children have been exploring skeletons  💀They have been learning about how our bodies work and the names of different bones.  They have been very creative when putting the skeleton together.  The children also created their own skeletons using cotton buds. 💀 We also looked at some fossils and the children created their own using clay.

This week we read a story about a princess who has fun in a maze. One child said “ I’ve been to the maze in Victoria Park”. The children asked if they could have a maze in nursery so we made one with masking tape on the floor. The children had to use their fine motor skills and problem solve to make their way around the maze with the cars.

The children have been having a tea party so we introduced flavoured tea into the home corner. The children have been using there sense of Smell 👃🏻, and Taste👅. The children said the peppermint tea smelled like chocolate🍫 and it looked brown when the hot water was added. The children loved the smell of the wild Berry tea, a child said it smelled like sweets and enjoyed the taste of it. All the children were amazed when we added the hot water it turned purple. The lemon and ginger tea smelled like oranges 🍊 the children thought.
The children explored the colours of the tea and  were being very safe when pouring the hot water into the jugs . The children were able to say to staff that the water was hot and they needed to be very careful.