Monthly Archives: June 2019
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Exploring our outside world with our senses. We used soil, watering cans and water to mix and make different textures with our hands and fingers.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Exploring and using their senses to explore by tipping and pouring Physical Development (PD)
Using simple words (dig, scoop, fill, mud, cold, dry Communication and Language (CL)
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Planting flowers in the garden and perhaps picking weeds!
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
Gluing and Sticking Mini-Beast pictures
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Showing control when using mark making tools (PD) Physical Development
Playing alongside others and turn taking (PSED) Personal, Social, Emotional Development (PSED)
Colours (M) Mathematics
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Go on a bug hunt in the garden
Why not try a gluing and sticking activity with your little one?
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
We made collages out of old materials and containers and glued them, used Velcro and painted them too. We spoke about how we don’t need to throw everything away and that we can reuse things repeatedly. That’s called recycling!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Shows care and concern for living things and the environment (UTW)Understanding the World
Notices features of objects in their environment
Select tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Look around the house for old objects that you don’t use anymore. Have a look in the recycling bin and make something out of what you can find.
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
Look around the house for old objects that you don’t use anymore. Have a look in the recycling bin and make something out of what you can find.
Number of the week: 22
Shape of the week: Crecent
Colour of the week: Pink
Letter of the week: Vv
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
We have been making sensory pots using lemon, orange and vanilla to go in them. We had lots of fun closing our eyes and smelling the smells and trying to guess what it was.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Experiments to create different textures. Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)
Uses talk to explain what is happening Communication and Language (CL)
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Why not go on a scavenger hunt and give your little one a list of textures and smells to find.
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, U go umbrellas
U, U, U go umbrellas
U, U, U go umbrellas
When it starts to rain!
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Scented Ice play with Safari animals. An activity that gets our little ones to use EVERY sense.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD)- Senses to explore
Communication and Language (CL) Alert to the sound of speech
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL)Fleeting affection and Strong Exploratory Impulse
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Water play of ice play with different colours to explore and mix up.
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
Giant Race Track
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Use the pincer grip to hold the cars as you race them along
Personal, Social, Emotional Development (PSED) Playing alongside others-turn taking
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) Playing and Exploring-Showing particular interests
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Run the cars through paint and make tracks on some paper on the floor
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
Making Father’s Day cards and gifts
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Use different materials to create a masterpiece!
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the things we love most of all about our daddy’s
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Talk to your little one about what they like doing with you. Going on a Father’s Day family walk
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
Celebrating and talking to our children about their daddies or an important male figure in their life and cooking cupcakes together.
Number of the week: 9
Shape of the week: Hexagon
Colour of the week: Yellow
Letter of the week: Xx
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
We have been making cards for our daddies or the important male figure in their life.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the different families we have and what is most important about family life.
Physical, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) Talking about what makes you feel loved. Using describing words
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Talking about what we love most of all about pour daddies
Number of the week: 14
Shape of the week: Oval
Colour of the week: Dark Blue
Letter of the week: Oo
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
Now it’s dark the lights go on
O,o,,o,o,o
Time for bed, the lights go off
O,o,o,o,o
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
We made a dinosaur tuff tray using lentils as the lava coming out of our grey playdough volcano. There was also cress that we grew to make the forest that some of the dinosaurs lived in.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Reaches out for objects, touching and beginning to hold objects.
Communication and Language (CL) Has a strong exploratory impulse
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) Not easily distracted
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Nature walk through a forest, using your sense of smell, listening and touch with your little ones.
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
Using corn flour and water we mixed the 2 ingredients together to make a texture changing ‘gloop’. We added different colours to the ‘gloop’ and used our fingers to make patterns and mix the colours together
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Feeling different textures
Communication and Language (CL) enjoying talking about different colours and feelings
It is so easy to make, and your child will love exploring the feeling of ‘gloop’ with you too. Add rice, pasta and lentils to make different textures and enjoy picking up the different things using your fingers and hands
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
We really enjoyed building rockets for our space board. We had different ideas on how our rockets should look and designed them ourselves. Some models were very technical and colourful.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Mathematics(M) Using shapes and colours to design our rockets
Literacy (L) We tried to write our names on our rockets using our mark making skills
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Encourage your child to mark make, using their name as a focus
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: 19
Shape of the week: Triangle
Colour of the week: Red
Letter of the week: Jj
Jolly phonics song for J
Jelly and Jam, Jelly and Jam
Jiggling on a plate
Oh, what will I eat with it?
J, J, J, J, J !
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
We enjoyed using our ‘independence skills’ by getting ourselves dressed (most of us all by ourselves!) without much adult support. We did stretches to warm our bodies and muscles up. We all completed 3 laps of the garden, the climbing equipment and down the slide. We then practiced our jumping and star jumps together as a group. A really good session!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Health and self-care skills. Dressing and undressing independently
And using our gross and fine motor skills to maneuver around the course
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Encourage your child to dress and undress themselves at home. Ask them to put their socks and shoes on too, especially if your little one is going to school in September!
Number of the week: 12
Shape of the week: Hexagon
Colour of the week: Light Blue
Letter of the week: Dd
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
The letter D,d
See me play on my drum,
Playing drums is lots of fun!
With a d,d,d,d,d,d,d
See me play upon my drum!