Children have been learning all about shape in a fun and interactive way throughout the nursery environment and beyond. Almost all children have participated in shape hunts within the local community or within the garden or indoors they have cooperatively played shape games, making shapes with the play dough, with their fingers in shaving foam and using paint or pens to create their own representations of known shapes the children have had the opportunity to recognise, name, sort and describe the properties of the most common 2D shapes.
Many children have also had the opportunity to explore ways to design and construct their very own models. They have been encouraged to make a plan of what is going to be built, gather the materials they need from the loose parts around the nursery and with thought provoking questions they have been given the time and support to create their models which they have very proudly taken home to share with their families.
During ABC music sessions the children have been active participants in learning the rhyme “Jack and Jill”, we have been taking a closer look at the words within the rhyme, the sounds they make, the rhythm they have and the steady beat within it. We are now beginning to explore the syllables within the words which rhyme. We will then move on to exploring the sounds of the letters within our names and how many syllables we have within them.
Do you have any loose parts at home which the children could use at their tinkering table?…corks, nuts and bolts, chains, string, wood off cuts, wood shavings etc.
All of the children have been issued with an out in line of an egg to decorate at home, but they need your help to write an Easter joke, rhyme or riddle on the back. We will then use these at the annual family Easter egg hunt in Shotts Nature Park on Thursday 29th March 2018.
