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.