Garden – week beginning 7.2.22
This week in the garden, the children have been very interested in the story, ‘We’re going on a bear hunt.’ We listen to the story on the speaker while doing our own bear hunt through the garden! 🐻
We also made a mini bear hunt to match the story. The children enjoyed walking their character through the grass, and mud etc in time with the story. 🐻💧❄️ Our children have the best imaginations! ❤️
Woodwork
In the woodwork area we have been focusing on Valentine’s Day! We made wooden hearts using hammers and nails. allowing children to use real tools and have real life experiences gives children a real sense of achievement and empowerment. The children have the chance to risk assess, develop hand eye coordination and develop their concentration skills.
Courtyard
This week in the courtyard the children have been interested in making their own obstacle courses.🧱⚽️
Whilst working hard and the children creating their own vision, the benefits are as follows:
- Strength and Balance, when children encounter obstacles in an obstacle course they develop and enhance strength and balance.
- Memory and Problem Solving.
- Sensory Processing.
- Motor Skills.
- Coordination.
The children are also valuing opportunities to make friends and be part of a group in a range of different situations.
The children were speaking about more benefits as it can keep the children fit and healthy ensuring they eat some fruit and vegetables too.🍓🍎🥒🌽🥕
These activities encourage children to be independent and lead their own learning, which the children were more engaged and interested as it was all their own ideas and vision.
Using a variety of new words for some children such as jumping high, balancing on the blocks, and using concentration for a longer period of time.
Acorn Room. (2-3 room)
The children were provided with a range of experiences to support their next steps of achieving particular learning outcomes in Realising the ambition: Being me, celebrating Valentines. There was discussions about people we love and why we love them.
A few children chose to use their self help skills, to peel and chop a banana.
The children scooped and measured creating “love soup” and role played as they fed it to the dolls.
A child showed an interest in our water tray, we added ducks and pink glitter. This sparked the children’s curiosity of colours, identifying the coloured ducks. A child was able to count them.
Following the discussion of who we loved, we created valentines pictures for our loved ones. A few children were able to count their finger marks, of how many spots were on their bug.
Happy Valentines for Monday, you are loved.
After showing an interest in transporting, some of the children have been building on their fine-motor skills through various threading and sorting experiences using loose parts.
Have a lovely weekend!
Erin 🙂
Garden
We continued to develop ‘Animal World’ at the bottom of the garden.🦫🐿🌳🌿🌱
The children wanted to add pine cones to ‘to give the animals food and we can pretend the cones are eggs that have babies inside!’… ❤️
To extend learning we then looked at mathematical concepts such as pattern and addition! How amazing that our wonderful children can enhance their knowledge of numbers outdoors!👏🙌🌳🌱🌿
We used pine cones to create addition columns and used leaves to then create a two step pattern…Pine cone, leaf, pine cone, leaf….WOW!👏🙌
Towards the end of the week we used paint to add a little bit of art and creativity to our outdoor area!🎨🎨🎨 We rolled pine cones in blue and yellow paint to explore colour mixing and used lollipop sticks to mark make!👏
