{"id":4274,"date":"2024-12-22T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:46:40","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/2024\/12\/22\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

December days have been filled full of learning…<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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!<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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And of course there has been lots of Christmas celebrations…<\/p>\n

We LOVED sharing our play and spending time with our family members at our Christmas Stay and Play sessions.<\/p>\n

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And we had a great time dancing, playing games, having a Christmas snack and meeting Santa at our Christmas party…<\/p>\n

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And finally we ended the term with Christmas Bookbug sessions with a story and songs to get us all into the festive spirit.<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas everyone from all of us at Sound ELC.<\/p>\n

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