Over the last few weeks the children in the toddler room have been listening to the story “The 3 little pigs”, some children have been joining in with the story and the repitition of parts. They have been using puppets and props to re-enct parts of the story and particulary enjoyed pretending to be the wolf that huffs and puffs and blows the house down.
We have been extending the story by having straw, sticks and bricks in the construction area for the children to build with and create their own structures, and using mathematical language during our building such as more, tallest, longest, etc and counting our materials as we build with them.
In the art area we have

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been using the different materials to create pictures by printing, sticking etc and used real cement to join our bricks together to build houses for the pigs.