Our second word boost book is “Sylvia and bird” by Catherine Rayner. Our boost words are Lonely, gaze, tumble and search. You can find more information about our second word boost book on your child’s learners journal.
Author: A Glidden
Word Boost week 1
Week beginning 12th September 2022
Our first word boost book is The Selfish Crocodile by Faustin Charles and Michael Terry.
Our boost words are astonished,creature,brave and creep.
You can find more information about week 1 word boost on your child’s learners journal.
Word boost : Salty and Button
Our Learning week ending 3rd November 2017
This week we have continued our learning about Autumn. Following on from the interest in the book “Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper last week we chose to make our very own pumpkin soup . This gave us the opportunity to investigate pumpkins in more detail . We have discovered that pumpkins have skin, flesh and seeds. We chopped the flesh to use in our soup which we all had the opportunity of tasting at group time. Although some of us were reluctant to taste our soup, with some encouragement, many of us enjoyed it so much we asked for a second helping !
We enjoyed the sensory experience of putting our hands into the pumpkins and pulling the seeds out . We used descriptive words when engaging in this activity including “slimy, wet and cold”. When asked what could be done with the seeds Ava suggested planting them to make more pumpkins and Aaron thought we could use them to make pictures at the glue table. Mrs Olford suggested toasting them so we could eat them. There was a mixture of opinions on whether the children liked the toasted seeds or not. Some voted with a thumbs up to indicate they enjoyed them, some with horizontal thumbs to indicate they thought they were ok, and some thumbs downs as they didn’t enjoy them.
We have been learning about autumn festivals this week starting with Halloween. Some of us chose to dress up in scary costumes while others chose favorite story and film characters.
We explored goo and slime. Some of us were reluctant to use our hands, instead using tweezers to lift spiders and insects out of the containers.
We used our mark making and fine motor skills to draw pumpkins in trays of semolina.
We dooked for apples in our groups using several techniques including putting our faces in to the water and biting the apples.
We continued with Autumn festivals by observing fireworks on the smart board to link with Guy Fawkes. We also listened to government publication “Frances the Firefly” to help introduce us to the dangers of fire.
Next week we will be learning more about fire safety and if it doesn’t rain we hope to have a practical experience out in the garden.
Our Learning week ending 27th October 2017
This week we have continued with our learning about Autumn. A display of pumpkins and squashes was created alongside the book “Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper. This stimulated the childrens interest which resulted in a sensory exploration of the different pumpkins. The children noticed the similarities and differences and this led to lots of discussion about size, weight, colour and texture. Lucy, Alexandra and Millie worked together ordering the pumpkins from “the tiny one” to the “huge peachy coloured one”.
The Pumpkin Soup story was a popular choice by all and was read by an adult in small group as as well as looked at independtly by the children. Many discussions were held about the characters, analysing their friendship and in particular what makes a good friend.
Recalling learning from last year Darcey rememberd tasting the pumpkin pie that we made last Autumn. However Ethan stated ” I like pumpkin soup” so after much discussion it has been decided that we will be making our own pumpkin soup in Nursery next week.
Alexandra brought in felt bat shapes from home that her mummy had made. She decided that she wanted to decorate the den with them. Alexandra wanted them to fly and after collaborative discussion it was decided that the bats needed to be attached to wool. After counting the bats to work out how many pieces of wool would be needed a Alexandra and her friends worked together to measure and cut the wool to an appropriate length before hanging the in the den.
We added numbers 1-5 onto bats to create a number line. The children have been identifying and ordering the numerals and are using them as props for the”5 little bats” number rhyme.
Copies of the number rhyme are available on our Learning Gallery wall in the cloakroom.
