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!