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 their children to extend their learning further
Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
A fruit and vegetable tuff tray exploring all the different textures. Mashed potato was VERY messy! Our babies used spoons to scoop the mashed potato and their fingers to squash it too.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills to feel and squeeze the different fruit and vegetables.
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Exploring and using Media and Materials
Communication and Language (CL) Imitating words and sounds that the adults say
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) Playing alongside each other
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Explore different foods with your child, when cooking dinner or when you are eating out. Talk about the fruit and vegetables a you shop with your child.
Butterflies
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Sensory tuff tray. Pushing and poking different textures through the cling film and using their fingers to mix the different textures together too
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) Turn Taking and playing alongside each other at an activity
Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the different textures with the adults
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Encourage your child to use the hnds and fingers to explore different surfaces whilst out and about. Tree trunks, brick walls, metal gates, tarmac, stone paths, windows
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
What sounds and jobs different vehicles do in our community
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Understanding the World (UTW) Vehicles in our community
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the different vehicles we have in our community and what jobs they do
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Observe and talk about the different vehicles that you see with your child
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
Group times to out green house. The children choose to plant either cucumbers, runner beans of flowers to grow.
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Understanding the World (UTW) Talking about the things we observe while planting
Communication and Language (CL) Talking about everything we observe. Use ‘describing’ and ‘doing’ words to explain.
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Plant your own flower with your child or perhaps grow some cress for a quicker look at how things grow.
Number of the week: 4
Shape of the week: Cresent
Colour of the week: Pink
Letter of the week: I, i
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…
Inky the mouse is my pet,
He spilt the ink and got wet,
The ink it spread all over the place,
I, I, I, I, Inky’s wet!