What a wonderful time we have had celebrating the countdown to Christmas with the bairns. Each child had enjoyed having their own specially tailored activity to share with their friends.
We have continued our fun with…..
Funny faces snack made by Jeanne…
A Christmas present hunt in the forest led by Willum….
Sophie decorated our bikes and scooters to make them all Christmassy….
…and Leva led the Christmas Reindeer race!
Some Christmas playdoh made by Titus….
The bairns have been really interested in building this term. This week we read the story of The Three Little Pigs and experimented with building houses for each pig out of straw, sticks and bricks…..
It was really hard to build a house from the straw. “It didn’t stay up.” (Elsie)
“I huffed and I puffed and I could knock da sticks down.” (Honor)
“The best one was when we used all the stuff to build da house. It was da biggest and da strongest.”
We had lots of fun exploring the story with roleplay and exploring, strength, materials, size, weight, position, forces, problem solving to decide on the best material and how to test them.
The bairns decided the bricks were easier to build with because they could stack but they still fell over, so we explored different types of brick….foam….wood….stone….and built a wall.
Hello everyone, apologies for our lack of posts for a while, there was a blip with our blog, but hopefully it’s all sorted now.
Here is a snapshot of our learning fun last term!……
…..Da bairns were really interested in exploring different materials, their properties and uses. They experimented to see if the material waterproof, strong, heavy, light, could float or sink.
……Then they explored their uses. Could they build with it, could it stack, could it hold it’s shape…….
…..They took their learning outside to explore further where they experimented with forces and how things move…..
….Some bairns were very interested in magnetic forces, push and pull and others really enjoyed exploring mark making in the sand using different tools and materials.
….Magnus explored forces of push and pull using his body and feet – he even made his own ski’s!
We had lots of fun outside as always………
…building, climbing…
…..Jumping, sunbathing….
…..flying kites, experimenting with sound, pony jumps and building….
….Bikes and scooters pedalling with a passenger and negotiating corners with an extra wide bike!
…..Pony cuddles, walks to the shore,
…..and of course jumping in muddy puddles!
….And finally…..
…..baking, tea parties, painting with pineapples and pineapple play doh…..
….cosy stories, colour sorting and lemon tasing…..
…….music making, instrument skills, rhythm….
We were kindly donated an amazing castle! The bairns carefully followed the instructions to build the castle themselves and some went on to make their own castles using all their knowledge of building and material properties they had already learned in their experiments….
