The babies have had lots of fun making pitta pizzas for our Around the World themed week. They enjoyed exploring the different textures with their hands and their mouths.

Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills to make the pizzas.
Picks up small objects between thumb and fingers
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED) Builds relationships with special people

Cheese straws a good favourite and easy to make. By ready made puff pasrty and add some gratd chees. Twist the pastry with your little one and cook for 10-15mins in the oven at 180 degrees

Carrying on from last week we put different objects into water and froze them in the freezer. The children choose different one-handed tools to break the ice p and get to the objects.

Physical Development (PD) Using their fine motor skills using one-handed tools Communication and Language (CL) Talking about the different objects in the ice.

Make some ice lollies with your little one and enjoy them together

We used a variety of opportunities to use water play inside and outside to try and cool off in the hot weather

Mathematics(M) Estimating how many small containers it would take to fill up a big container. Who was the closest?

Use your child’s bath time to talk to them about objects that float and objects that sink

Water play was our learning experience too! We used lots of mathematical language to describe our play, like sink and float, more and less, big, bigger and biggest, small, smaller and smallest, estimate etc. to name but a few

Mathematics (M) Use of mathematical language

Enjoy the ‘guesstimating’ game with your little one to test their knowledge

The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home…

I see the clouds moving W, w, w
I see the kites flying W, w, w

I see the trees bending

W, w, w
The wind is blowing strong