This weeks theme was “All around the world”. Celebrating and exploring different things about countries around the world.
Monday we celebrated the UK – Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
in the construction area we explored famous landmarks from around the UK. We talked about each of the landmarks and where they were we then recreated these landmarks using the wooden blocks. Some of our creations have been wonderful! 🤩 well done everyone!
Inside we read ‘the teeger that cam for tea’ – it had lots of Scottish slang in it where we had to guess what the word meant. Afterwards we had our own Scottish tea party for the Tiger
Tuesday we celebrated Spain 🇪🇸
The children have been using coloured rice to make some Spanish paella. It almost looked good enough to eat!🇪🇸🥘.
We watched some Dora where we learned Spanish words and repeated them back. We learned some fun facts on the interactive board with Professor 👨🏫 propeller . Which we managed to find out Spanish foods , words and places.
Wednesday was America and Canada day 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
In our acorn room we were recreating the American flag using a range of different materials, playdough, rice and arts and crafts. These provocations gave the children a chance to strengthen and develop their fine motor skills and build on their knowledge of shape, pattern and colour. 
In the 3-5 room the children used different resources to make their own Captain America shields! The children’s did a great job and they look fantastic hanging up 🇺🇸
Thursday we celebrated Italy! In the acorn room we were developing our fine motor skills making pasta jewellery using colours from the Italian flag. We had to thread the pasta on to the pipe cleaners.
we also made our own spaghetti and pizza spreading, pouring scooping and mixing all the ingredients together.
In the 3-5 room we discussed some Italian words, finding out what they meant and repeating them back to one another. We then matched them with their English word on the tuff tray.
In the kitchen we made PIZZA ! We made our own dough with all these ingredients. After it was all mixed and into the bowl we left it for a few hours until the dough had gotten bigger due to the yeast. Whilst we waited the boys and girls got busy making the tomato sauce, they cut up tomato, carrots, celery and garlic then blended it and added some basil creating a lovely sauce 🍝
We made some extra dough so that we could get creative and make mini pizzas using colourful sticks and shapes
On Friday we celebrated Denmark
in the construction area we explored famous landmarks from Denmark We talked about the size and shape of the buildings and recreated these landmarks using the wooden blocks.
we were lucky enough to have a parent helper in – Karina who helped the children make Danish pastries. The children had to use their fine motor skills to spread and roll the dough. Afterwards Karina taught the children number 1-3 in danish. They children loved having her in.
