Monthly Archives: May 2019
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Messy Rainbow Icing sugar play. Wow! What a mess!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Personal Social Emotional Development (PSED) Playing alongside others
Physical Development (PD) Using tools to create marks
Communication and Language (CL) Listening and Attention
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Why not decorate biscuits with different coloured icing at home.
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
The Hungry Caterpillar Tuff Tray
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Literacy (L) Reading the story as a group
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Exploring textures
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Extending and improvising story times using toys, puppets and role play resources
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
Our theme for this week is dinosaurs and we made up a dinosaur tuff tray with flash cards to identify the different dinosaurs
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Understanding the World (UTW) Learning about a different age in our Planets history
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
To find similarities between toys and outside objects and identifying the concept of ‘big’ and ‘small’
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
We used the smartboard to look at dinosaur body parts and did some dinosaur foot printing too.
Number of the week: 18
Shape of the week: Rectangle
Colour of the week: Bronze
Letter of the week: Bb
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!
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
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
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
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
Number of the week: 11
Shape of the week: Square
Colour of the week: Brown
Letter of the week: Mm
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
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
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!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Water play at home with different materials for a sensory experience
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
Cheerio threading. Using hard spaghetti to thread the cheerios on to. This takes lots of practice!!!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Math’s(M) Counting the cheerios as you thread them on
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Encourage your child to join in with threading using penne pasta and pipe cleaners
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
Water play with all the different sea animals to explore and talk about.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Understanding the World (UTW) Talking about all the animals and their habitats and being aware of a wider community
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Go to the pet shop to look at the different tropical fish and perhaps go to the beach to collect shells
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
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.
Number of the week: 17
Shape of the week: Star
Colour of the week: Silver
Letter of the week: Ff
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
We have been talking about hygiene and health and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Health and self-care
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
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.
Number of the week: 10
Shape of the week: Triangle
Colour of the week: Grey
Letter of the week: Rr
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
Blog Foreword
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
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
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!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Make different flavoured smoothies with different types of fruit with your little one.
Butterflies
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Making ‘fast’, ‘slow’, ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ music with our pots and pans!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
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.)
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
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
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Going on a nature walk and talking about what you see is always very interesting for children.
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
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!
Number of the week: 16
Shape of the week: Circle
Colour of the week: Gold
Letter of the week: Ll
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,
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
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.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Health and Self care Understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating sleeping and hygiene contribute to good health
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Discuss why we clean our teeth, how to brush them properly and how going to the dentist helps keep our teeth healthy
Number of the week: 9
Shape of the week: Rectangle
Colour of the week: White
Letter of the week: Hh
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 !
Blog Foreword
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
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
This week in Ladybirds we had a pot bashing time making music with pots and pans
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Using pots and pans to make music at home. Empty containers and add rice to make musical shakers.
Butterflies
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Making transport pictures for our display
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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?
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Go for a trip to the train or bus station. Is there a local police or fire station near you?
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
We have been drawing members of our family and talking about what each family member looks like.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
We have been drawing members of our family and talking about what each family member looks like.
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
We have started to get creative by making surprises for our Mummies. There won’t be a dry eye in the house!
Number of the week: 15
Shape of the week: Pentagon
Colour of the week: Light Green
Letter of the week: Uu
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
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
Handling and looking after our growing chicks. Talking about the farm that they are going back to.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
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.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
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
Number of the week: 8
Shape of the week: Star
Colour of the week: Black
Letter of the week: Ee
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’