Jack has Arrived!

This week we have been enjoying the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We even have our very own beanstalk for Jack to climb, but we haven’t found the giant yet.

We have also been developing our mathematical vocabulary by comparing objects around ELC. We are getting very good at ordering objects according to their size.

Every day we are practising recognising our names in print, to help us understand that print has meaning. We can now use our self-registration board all by ourselves and we have even started finding our name stickers in our colour group folders, which we put on our artwork.

We have practised our fine motor skills by cutting and sticking tissue paper, to make these beautiful autumn leaves.

We have also being thinking about what makes us feel respected. We talked about how we like to be listened to and taken seriously. We also thought about how important it is to share with each other and take turns to show that we respect each other.

Staff in our ELC are skilled at encouraging all our children to lead their learning. An important part of this is encouraging  children to talk about their learning through questions.

We are continuing to try new foods and enjoy healthy snacks in ELC. These watermelon lollies were delicious!

Finally, we would like to say a huge ‘Thank you’ for all your positive feedback during the parental phone calls this week. It is lovely to hear that our children are sharing at home just how much they are enjoying all the learning opportunities in ELC.

 

 

 

 

Autumn is Here!

We have had a very Autumnal week in Kingsland ELC and we have loved collecting leaves to make our very cute Hedgehogs. We are very proud of our colourful collage artwork!

We have been learning about fruit and vegetables in our Harvest area and we are enjoying eating fruit and vegetables at snack and lunch times.

 

 

 

 

We have painted a beautiful  tree on one of our windows and we used our hand prints to create the autumn leaves. We talked about leaf colours and textures and what happens to some leaves in Autumn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another special tree in the nursery is our ‘Little Voices Tree’. We are hanging special leaves from the branches to share what we enjoy about nursery.

We all love sharing stories and we have particularly loved Percy the Park Keeper and stories about animals this week.

Our marvellous Mud Kitchen has moved! There was great excitement about this, especially when we saw slugs and woodlice underneath where it had been.  It is now in a lovely corner next to our Clematis arch.

We love sharing our learning with our families . We now have another outdoor board, so we can share more information about our day with you and staff are always available to  you at drop off and pick up, if you would like more information.

Your feedback is very important to us at Kingsland ELC and we really appreciate your comments. Thank you to everyone who has so far left ideas and  feedback  to the question ‘How do we know our children lead their play and learning?’ If you were not able to share your ideas and feedback this week and would like us to send a comments slip home for you, with your child, please just let a member of staff know.