Starfish in November
Starfish have had a very animal filled month. Children love exploring and relating to animals and the Starfish group have had loads of fun enhancing their day to day activities through this topic.
There has been a lot of ‘making’ of animals. The cat and dog mobiles have been great fun and the children enjoyed the supporting meowing and woofing as they worked away at their art. They also made some interactive art- furry cats and dogs- decorating them with fur and then stroking them.
Pigs were made too on paper plates with pink paint and pink foam pieces for ears and noses.
As well as making animals, the children have done some footprint art work. They walked the animal figures through paint and walked them around on paper to see the foot prints that they make.
The animals were a feature of the water play as they played with animal figures around the ‘lakes’ and the ‘sea’.
And in the back ground the room has been a cacophony of animals noises. The children love making animal sounds and naming the animals or pointing to the pictures of the animals. Some of the children can name most of the farm animals and they can all join in with the oinks, woofs, meows, quacks, neighs, moos and baas!
Starfish have had a very animal filled month. Children love exploring and relating to animals and the Starfish group have had loads of fun enhancing their day to day activities through this topic.
There has been a lot of ‘making’ of animals. The cat and dog mobiles have been great fun and the children enjoyed the supporting meowing and woofing as they worked away at their art. They also made some interactive art- furry cats and dogs- decorating them with fur and then stroking them.
Pigs were made too on paper plates with pink paint and pink foam pieces for ears and noses.
As well as making animals, the children have done some footprint art work. They walked the animal figures through paint and walked them around on paper to see the foot prints that they make.The animals were a feature of the water play as they played with animal figures around the ‘lakes’ and the ‘sea’.
And in the back ground the room has been a cacophony of animals noises. The children love making animal sounds and naming the animals or pointing to the pictures of the animals. Some of the children can name most of the farm animals and they can all join in with the oinks, woofs, meows, quacks, neighs, moos and baas!
Seahorses
The start of the month saw a lot of colour splashed throughout the nursery as the teachers and children talked about and made colourful art to celebrate Divali and Guy Fawkes. Seahorses did some fantastic colourful paintings on black paper. Even if they were oblivious to the events, they still enjoyed a lot of bright colour!
The start of the month saw a lot of colour splashed throughout the nursery as the teachers and children talked about and made colourful art to celebrate Divali and Guy Fawkes. Seahorses did some fantastic colourful paintings on black paper. Even if they were oblivious to the events, they still enjoyed a lot of bright colour!The seahorses have had a focus on using British Sign Language (BSL) in the room to help support the communication with children and to begin signing in the nursery from babies so that throughtout the age groups it becomes a regular part of the way we communicate.
The key signs that the staff have been
using with the children during the day are ‘stop’, ‘no, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. One of the babies is regularly using the 'please' symbol to request things and many of them are starting to use hand symbols, even if they are not entirely recognisable yet. They love looking at the hand pictures on the signing chart recently put up in the room. They often go over to the display to touch and look at the signs.
The children have also painted some faces to go with the letter symbols of their names. They have gone up on the wall to help the team to remember the symbols for their names and use them whan talking to them.
A lot of fun was also had making foot and hand prints to go on the teatowels we are making for the nursery. Lots of trials runs took place to get a print that met the criteria and was great fun doing so!
The key signs that the staff have been
using with the children during the day are ‘stop’, ‘no, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. One of the babies is regularly using the 'please' symbol to request things and many of them are starting to use hand symbols, even if they are not entirely recognisable yet. They love looking at the hand pictures on the signing chart recently put up in the room. They often go over to the display to touch and look at the signs.The children have also painted some faces to go with the letter symbols of their names. They have gone up on the wall to help the team to remember the symbols for their names and use them whan talking to them.
A lot of fun was also had making foot and hand prints to go on the teatowels we are making for the nursery. Lots of trials runs took place to get a print that met the criteria and was great fun doing so!
Dolphins
The Surrey Docks Farm visit at the start of November prompted a flow of animal activities that led from one thing to another swiftly. Like doing animal foot printing, making animal masks, cutting out sea animals to make a communal sea picture.
The children loved the animals and it left an interest in all things animal and real animal experiences to relate the animals that we have been discussing at nursery to. It also encouraged children to talk and share with each other their zoo and farm experiences that they have had with families and friends outside nursery.
The preschool group investigated unusual animals and found pictures on the internet, printed them, laminated them, displayed and discussed them together.
The main group did the same with more well known animals and made their own flash cards to discuss and look at with some of the children’s own drawings of the animals as well.
They also made giraffes and put spots on them, discussing pattern and positioning and why they put the spots in the places they did.With teachers help, some children also made animal snap cards that they have played memory, snap and other games with.
Group games have become a real favourite with the children in the last hour before home time and they have really been a great way to round off some of the discussions and learning the children have been doing on animals in a fun way at the end of the day. And at the same time, it is great way to spend time together at the end of the day doing something different and fun.
Favourites have been, catching butterflies blow out of the elephants nose, springy spider, crocodile snap, Guess Who- animals. They have all been great for reinforcing animals names, sounds, and of course to support the children’s co-operation and skills in following instructions.
The Surrey Docks Farm visit at the start of November prompted a flow of animal activities that led from one thing to another swiftly. Like doing animal foot printing, making animal masks, cutting out sea animals to make a communal sea picture.The children loved the animals and it left an interest in all things animal and real animal experiences to relate the animals that we have been discussing at nursery to. It also encouraged children to talk and share with each other their zoo and farm experiences that they have had with families and friends outside nursery.
The preschool group investigated unusual animals and found pictures on the internet, printed them, laminated them, displayed and discussed them together.
The main group did the same with more well known animals and made their own flash cards to discuss and look at with some of the children’s own drawings of the animals as well.
They also made giraffes and put spots on them, discussing pattern and positioning and why they put the spots in the places they did.With teachers help, some children also made animal snap cards that they have played memory, snap and other games with.
Group games have become a real favourite with the children in the last hour before home time and they have really been a great way to round off some of the discussions and learning the children have been doing on animals in a fun way at the end of the day. And at the same time, it is great way to spend time together at the end of the day doing something different and fun.
Favourites have been, catching butterflies blow out of the elephants nose, springy spider, crocodile snap, Guess Who- animals. They have all been great for reinforcing animals names, sounds, and of course to support the children’s co-operation and skills in following instructions.
