Messy Rainbow Icing sugar play. Wow! What a mess!
Personal Social Emotional Development (PSED) Playing alongside others
Physical Development (PD) Using tools to create marks
Communication and Language (CL) Listening and Attention
Why not decorate biscuits with different coloured icing at home.
The Hungry Caterpillar Tuff Tray
Literacy (L) Reading the story as a group
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Exploring textures
Extending and improvising story times using toys, puppets and role play resources
Our theme for this week is dinosaurs and we made up a dinosaur tuff tray with flash cards to identify the different dinosaurs
Understanding the World (UTW) Learning about a different age in our Planets history
To find similarities between toys and outside objects and identifying the concept of ‘big’ and ‘small’
We used the smartboard to look at dinosaur body parts and did some dinosaur foot printing too.
Phonic song is ‘B’
Bring your bat and bring your ball, b,b,
Bring your bat and bring your ball to the park to play!
Our favourite activity this week was a science experiment involving placing folded paper and card flowers in some water and watching the petals unfold. Some unfolded straight away and some more slowly
This experiment was to talk about absorption and for the children to predict what might happen to the flowers when they went into the water. A few children predicted that the petals would unfold, others said it would sink, some did not what would happen
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) Making links, making predictions, testing their ideas
Have a tray of different objects and a large bowl of water. Ask your child to predict then test which objects sink and which objects float
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home… (M.m)
The mums and dad’s make many meals mmmm mmmm
The mum’s and dad’s make many meals for the hungry children
Noah’s Ark bubble scrubbing. A water tray with Noah’s animals in and lots of bubbles. Give the children a brush and off we go!
Physical Development (PD) Explores objects with mouth, often picking up objects and holding it to their mouth.
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) changing strategy as needed
Water play at home with different materials for a sensory experience
Cheerio threading. Using hard spaghetti to thread the cheerios on to. This takes lots of practice!!!
Math’s(M) Counting the cheerios as you thread them on
Encourage your child to join in with threading using penne pasta and pipe cleaners
Water play with all the different sea animals to explore and talk about.
Understanding the World (UTW) Talking about all the animals and their habitats and being aware of a wider community
Go to the pet shop to look at the different tropical fish and perhaps go to the beach to collect shells
Pre-school bees have been making lots of under the sea animals and artwork for our new display. They used different materials to make these. They have also been to the smart board to look at the real-life sea animals.
We have been talking about hygiene and health and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy
Physical Development (PD) Health and self-care
Talk about why we brush our teeth and take pictures of things that we see that are either healthy or hygienic. Practice washing your hands together.
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
See my puppy rip the rag R, R, R
Se my puppy rip the rag
When he pulls so hard
The Bell House Blog is designed to show parents what activities our children are doing week by week and how these activities relate to the Early Years Curriculum. We feel it’s important for our parents to be able to see ‘what’ as well as ‘why’ we plan the activities we do for the children. Parents are encouraged to be a part of their child’s education being invited to do the ‘At home’ ideas with t
We made a very yummy banana smoothie using our fingers and hands to squish the banana and then we added the milk to make it drinkable!
Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills to hold and squish the banana between their hands and fingers.
Communication and Language (CL) Imitate words and sounds
Expressive Arts and Design EAD) Exploring media as a sensory experience.
Make different flavoured smoothies with different types of fruit with your little one.
Making ‘fast’, ‘slow’, ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ music with our pots and pans!
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Explores and Experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration
Understanding the World (UTW) Linking together approaches e.g. shaking, hitting etc.
Using different objects to make music. It’s amazing how many sounds a stick makes on different surfaces when you are out on a walk. Why not describe the sound it makes (Clink, tap, thud etc.)
Our theme of the week is mini beasts and we really enjoyed hunting for insects in the garden using our magnifying glasses to see them really clearly
Understanding the World (UTW) People and Communities and our environment
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the different mini-beasts and using our describing words.
Going on a nature walk and talking about what you see is always very interesting for children.
Looking at minibeasts around our environment as this our theme of the week. We also used our fingers to make our own little mini beasts!
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
We lick our lollipops l, l,l
We lick our lollipops l, l, l
We lick our lollipops L,l,l,l,l,l,
We are enjoying our topic of healthy living and hygiene. We especially enjoyed looking at how many teeth we have in our mouths and taking a picture of our mouths and teeth.
Physical Development (PD) Health and Self care Understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating sleeping and hygiene contribute to good health
Discuss why we clean our teeth, how to brush them properly and how going to the dentist helps keep our teeth healthy
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
I like to hop, hop, hop up and down
I like to hop, hop, hop all around
I like to hop, hop, hop up and down
H,h,h,h,h,h !
The Bell House Blog is designed to show parents what activities our children are doing week by week and how these activities relate to the Early Years Curriculum. We feel it’s important for our parents to be able to see ‘what’ as well as ‘why’ we plan the activities we do for the children. Parents are encouraged to be a part of their child’s education being invited to do the ‘At home’ ideas with t
This week in Ladybirds we had a pot bashing time making music with pots and pans
Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills to hold the spoons and their hand eye coordination to make the mark
Communication and Language (CL) Fleeting attention-new stimuli taking their whole attention.
Expressive Arts and Design EAD) Exploring media
Using pots and pans to make music at home. Empty containers and add rice to make musical shakers.
Making transport pictures for our display
Understanding the World (UTW) Vehicles we see in our community
Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills to make their pictures
Communication and Language (CL) Naming the vehicles as we make them. What’s your favourite vehicle?
Go for a trip to the train or bus station. Is there a local police or fire station near you?
We have been drawing members of our family and talking about what each family member looks like.
Understanding the World (UTW) People and Communities and how we are different.
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about how we are different of similar to each other.
We have been drawing members of our family and talking about what each family member looks like.
We have started to get creative by making surprises for our Mummies. There won’t be a dry eye in the house!
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
U, U, Up go the umbrellas
U, U, Up go the umbrellas
U, U, Up go the umbrellas
When it starts to rain
Handling and looking after our growing chicks. Talking about the farm that they are going back to.
Understanding the World (UTW) Talking about living things and what they need to survive
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about everything we can see. Use ‘describing’ and ‘doing’ words to explain.
Discuss new born animals and what they are called and perhaps the lifecycle of some of the animals your child is interested in. Where do you
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
Eggs in a pan E, E, E
Eggs in a pan E, E, E
Eggs in a pan E, E, E
Crack the eggs like this ‘E’