Month: February 2020

The boys and girls have been getting their groove on and performing fantastic shows! We have got a new exciting area for ours shows… a new stage! We have been exploring our instruments and different sounds they make. We have been using our amazing imagination to sing songs, act out stories and perform. We have been loving our own wee orchestra and all of the music the boys and girls have been making. There has even been talk about establishing a band… Keep your eyes (and ears!) peeled!

E: “I want to be the lead singer.”
L: “I am rock n’ rolling!”
L: “WOW I love the stage!”
A: “Look at me playing the piano”
A: “Do you want to see our show?”

Fantastic! We have been learning about the different sounds instruments make, different roles in a band and great sharing and turn taking skills when having a go on our stage. We love it!

A very big thank you to Ruby’s mum who helped us run the library today! We really appreciate your help and can’t wait to have you back next week!

If you would like to help us with the weekly library, please speak to Ania or Vicky for all of the information.

See you soon!

Last week, we had lots of conversations about Valentine’s Day and what it means to love somebody…

L: “It’s when you get married, it means you love the other person.”
P: “I love my friend, so I’m going to hug her.”
K: “It’s when you give kisses.”
A: “I love you!”

Some of the boys and girls have shared that love means giving each other love hearts. We talked about the shape, colour and different sizes of heart. We wanted to make our own love hearts for our mummies and daddies to show them how much we loved them! We decided to make them a little bit differently… So we used paint and a salad spinner!

E: “Do you need to spin it very fast?”
A: “Faster, faster!”
L: “I think the colours will mix together.”
L: “I wonder what will happen if we add glitter to the paint.”

The children have been taking lots of interest in chopping the real vegetables and bread. They are learning to chop and slice. This aids the development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

They are using some of the knives which are specially designed for children to use in food preparation.

Look at us – we are all very busy in these photographs!

The children have all been very busy using their imagination and learning how to use the new equipment and resources. We have purchased new resources for the children to experience and use in their play. Here is Leah talking us through the steps to making a cup of tea;

“First you need a kettle, it has hot water in it so be careful. Then you need a tea pot and you put the tea bag in the tea pot. Do you want milk or sugar? – cause i like that in my tea mummy makes. Then you pour it into a cup like this, remember it’s hot.”

If anyone has an old kettle they would be happy to donate to us, this would be another good resource for the children to use in their play.

 

 

Dear parents, carers and families!

We need you!

We are looking for helpers to run our weekly library! All we would ask of you would be your lovely presence and supervision of home link bags.

If you would be able to help, please let Vicky or Ania know the suitable slots:

Wednesday morning:

8.40-9.10 and/or 11.35-11.55

Wednesday afternoon:

12.30-12.50 and/or 2.45-3.05

 

As you might have seen on our display in the cloakroom, we have been busy exploring portraits. We have been talking about the features of our faces noticing that we all look different!

P: “A has got brown eyes and I’ve got blue eyes.”
L: “A has got longer hair than mine. C has shorter hair, but that’s because he’s a boy.”
L: “My top is a different colour!”

Some of the boys and girls had a great idea – why don’t we take some photos of our faces and make them into puppets?! So we did! With the use of a camera, we carefully took portrait photos and printed them off to make them into puppets. Before we knew it, the boys and girls were making puppets using lots of different materials – photographs, lolly sticks, paper, material, wool, googly eyes, feathers… The ideas had no end!

While hard at work, one of the children said:

“Can we make the Three Little Pigs puppets?” – now, that is a brilliant idea! So we did! We worked very hard and showed super teamwork in exchanging ideas and sharing materials. One thing led to another and… We now have our own puppet theatre! We had already performed lots of different shows, we even wrote our own story to act out! We still have lots more ideas to come, so you are more than welcome to join us!

C: “I’ll be a pig!”
A: “Big Bag Wolf!”
A: “Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”
P: “This is a show about a princess who lived in a castle.”
J: “But you need to buy a ticket!”
A: “That’s the end. Come back tomorrow for another show!”