Merry Christmas!

December 22, 2024 by Miss Sandison | 0 comments

December days have been filled full of learning…

The home corner has continued to be a popular place for role play. Role play helps us develop talking and listening skills, process real life situations and learn how to collaborate and share ideas with each other. Shared role play areas are also places where we can develop mark making skills as we use marks to communicate our ideas and enhance our stories. Clipboards, pens and pencils have been used a lot in these areas to make shopping lists, recipe ideas, phone call notes and to jot down emergency numbers.

We have also used many of these literacy skills in shared painting experiences too where we have had opportunities to talk about our ideas as we mixed colours, created shades and experimented with line and shape.

The water tray too has been a place of shared play. This term we have continued to learn about measurement through emptying, filling and pouring using different containers. We have also learned about how water can turn to ice and then back to water again. We have explored and compared how ice melts in warm and cold water, have discussed what ice feels like and recalled last term when the puddles outside were icy.

Although it’s not been icy outdoors this term we have still had a brilliant time learning about other scientific concepts such as the forces of pull, push and twist when using the bikes. We have been very creative with the bikes, using them as motorbikes, buses and cars. There have been road blocks, diversions, emergencies and so much more to negotiate and discuss!

Our mud areas have also been well used as building sites, where we have developed our gross motor skills and strength, and as puddle jumping areas where we have learned about depth, width and height.