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8.7.21
Birthday Arts and Crafts
We always celebrate children’s birthdays with a little party! It’s so lovely to help make children feel special and learn about celebrating. It’s a great reason for doing some arts and crafts too. Today we made these gorgeous layer cake cards which provided an opportunity to practice cutting skills, counting and glueing and sticking. It’s also a chance for children to express their likes and dislikes and preferences as they choose their favourite colours and we talk about what happens at a party and make plans together!
5.7.21
Fantastic dens
16.6.21
Snail Love
We have had a lot of rain this summer and so the garden has been full of snails which the children have become fascinated with. I follow the children\"s interests in my planning and snails have provided lots of learning opportunities. We have gone on snail hunts, learning what they eat, following the silvery trails, looking at the patterns on their shells, collecting them, counting them and so on and on. And trying not to get cross that they\"ve eaten all our carrot seedlings we planted!! (we planted more higher up) Of course we read the Snail on the Whale too. We made these lovely paper plate snails. So many learning opportunities and all the prime areas of learning and development. Children\"s self esteem is enhanced through outdoor learning and I can literally see their confidence growing on a daily basis as they make choices and working together is great for social skill development.
12.5.21
Perks of the job
6.5.21
Cress letters
Cress letters! This is always such a fun thing to do. There are fine motor skills to practice as we sprinkle the tiny seeds on, social skills too as we take turns, learning to care for something as we must remember to water each day, learning to recognise the shape of their own letter to help with early literacy skills. And of course the joy of watching something we’ve planted growing. We had egg and cress sandwiches and the children enjoyed tasting the slightly spicy peppery cress and deciding whether they liked it or not!