Monthly Archives: October 2021

Happy Halloween!

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We have had lots of spooky Halloween fun this week in ELC.  There has been Covid friendly apple doukin’, a spooky photobooth, pumpkin playdough and lots of fun art and craft activities for us to practice using a paint brush, glue and scissors. We loved dressing up and going to look at all the decorated pumpkins in school. If you want to try making playdough at home, we have included our recipe in the blog photos below.

We were all very excited when our new construction bricks arrived. The boys and girls were very helpful when they helped to unpack the bricks. They have had lots of fun using their imagination and sharing ideas when they have been building with them.

One group were inspired, through their play, to make a police car. They showed great curiosity, teamwork and problem solving when they worked together to make the car from a big box. They then chose and talked about police stories, to link their learning and develop early literacy skills.

A lot of the boys and girls have enjoyed sharing stories and developing their early literacy skills in our cosy reading area this week . Our Costa Coffee role play area is also very popular and provides a great context for children to build their confidence, creativity and to develop their vocabulary.

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Welcome Back!

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Welcome back to everyone at Kingsland ELC. It has been lovely to see all the boys and girls playing and learning together again this week and to see them having great fun with the new layout.

We are continuing to focus on being responsible by practising our ELC rules, looking after all our toys and equipment and keeping each other and ourselves safe. This also helps us to remember our Wellbeing Rainbow and think about how we can look out for each other with kindness, teamwork and friendship.

We have being enjoying playing lots of games outside and in our St Andrew’s Room. The Name Game is helping us to learn each other’s names and games like Ring o’ Rose and Duck Duck Goose are helping us to practice taking turns and following the rules of the game. We have also loved being Superheroes and have been wearing our Superhero name badges and capes with pride. Our Outdoor Learning Tree helps us to share all our different outdoor activities and to see just how much learning takes place while we are playing outside.

We are also learning about colours in lots of ways, including talking about the colours all around us, mixing paints and colour sorting.

We are having great fun using our fine motor skills to create giant spooky spider’s webs outside.

Next Friday, 29th, we can dress up for Halloween, if we want to. We will be having lots of Halloween fun in our ELC, which we will share with you on our blog.

Finally, we would like to share with you our Golden Tree. This shows how we base all our planning for learning through play, on current policy and guidance. Each branch is an important part of how we ensure that our children have meaningful and positive learning experiences at Kingsland ELC.

 

The Giant Has Arrived!

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We have had great fun this week making our very own giant for our Jack and the Beanstalk story and role play area. We worked together to draw the outline around one of us and then we painted it all by ourselves.

We have also loved playing outside on our beanstalk. It even has gold coins hanging from the branches. We are so good at retelling the story and sharing our story ideas. We have also been continuing to compare sizes of objects which may be big/bigger and small/smaller, just like Jack and the Giant. We love doing this if we are having a walk around the school grounds.

We have been showing real initiative this week and have led our own learning to play Duck Duck Goose. We organised ourselves into a circle and agreed how to play together. We all took turns and remembered to follow the rules of the game.

The bugs and beasties in the garden continue to fascinate us and we found some very wriggly worms when we moved a tyre.

The giant spider’s web challenge has been a great way to practice using our pincer grip to pick up bugs and beasties with tongs. Luckily they weren’t real!

The weather has been very mixed this week and we know there will be more rain to come after the holiday next week. We still want to be playing and learning outside in our lovely garden as much as possible, whatever the weather. It would be really helpful if all our boys and girls have wellies and waterproof clothing with them every day, even if it doesn’t look like it will rain, as the ground can get muddy.  We have space for the children to leave a set of these at ELC if you want them to. (Please talk to a member of staff if this is something that you would like any help with).  As with anything that your child brings to ELC, please label with their name, just in-case they forget what belongs to them.

From everyone at Kingsland ELC, we would like to wish you all a very happy holiday when it comes and we look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 19th October.