Ladywell

16.11.18

We have had the opportunity over the last couple of weeks to try out some new activities which will help us to further develop the strength, control and coordination of our fingers and hands.

We have been wearing googles and  hammering golf tees into pumpkins and butter nut squash! It is a lot harder than it looks and a great way to develop our understanding of using tools safely and improve our eye hand coordination before we progress onto using nails and wood.

We have been weaving ribbons and paper in varied ways indoors…

and there are opportunities to weave with natural resources outside.

Whilst cutting the pumpkins at Halloween the children showed great interst in the seeds and were squeezing them to see if they could get any juice out. This was taken forward by staff who provided the children with a variety of different fruits which were cut and squeezed, examined, smelt and discussed.

They discovered that some fruits have a lot of juice and others very little and that seeds can be very varied.

Take a look at our Learning Wall and in our floor book to see what the children were saying about their discoveries.