In the Star Room we enjoy learning, playing and having fun together! We are a term time placement EYC.
We enjoy PE on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday including Mini Movers and Mini Kickers. We also enjoy baking, outdoor play and getting out in our local area!
We also enjoy accessing the school sensory room and reading with our Primary 5/6 reading buddies!
This is our class charter!
Schemas are patterns of repeatable behaviour which can often be noticed in young children’s play. Some easily identifiable schemas are:
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Schema |
Description of possible behaviours |
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Transporting |
A child may carry all the bricks from one place to another in a bag, the sand from the tray to the home corner in a bucket, push a friend around in a toy pram. |
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Enveloping |
A child may cover themselves in a flannel when washing, wrap dolls and toys up in blankets and fabric, cover their painting with one colour. |
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Enclosure/containing |
A child may put their thumb in and out of their mouth, fill up and empty containers of all kinds, climb into large cartons, sit in the tunnel, build ‘cages’ with blocks. |
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Trajectory;Diagonal/vertical/horizontal |
A child may gaze at your face, drop things from their cot, make arcs in their spilt food with their hand, play with the running water in the bathroom, climb up and jump off furniture, line up the cars, bounce and kick balls, throw. |
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Rotation |
A child may be fascinated by the spinning washing machine, love anything with wheels, roll down a hill, enjoy spinning round or being swung around. |
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Connection |
A child may distribute and collect objects to and from a practitioner, spend time joining the train tracks together, stick the masking tape form across form the table to the chair. |
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Positioning |
A child may put things on their head, prefer their custard next to their sponge not over it, lie on the floor or under the table. |
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Transforming |
A child may add juice to their mashed potato, sand to the water tray, enjoy adding colour to cornflour or making dough. |
March Update
The star room children have been learning to show respect for others, resources, and property, looking at syllables in words to develop our listening skills, understanding information in simple graphs and charts, exploring a variety of products that are related to engineering disciplines. We have also been exploring and sorting a variety of materials into groups dependent on their properties such as sinking and floating, sharing items into smaller groups, by splitting a whole into smaller parts and identify words that start with the same sound.
February Update
The EYC children in the Star Room, have been learning to recognise and differentiate between letters and symbols, find and identify missing numbers on a number line and become more independent when making choices about their learning. We have also been inventing our own stories, looking at routines and events, linking this with times and seasons.
We have also explored feelings and have been talking about different emotions. The children have displayed an interest in making their own ice cream shop, this was built using the large outdoor blocks – we then made ice cream playdough and sensory sand.
