From May to June we will be focussing
on living things.
The activities this month will be
based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
KUW-Show curiosity and interest in the
features of objects and living things. PSED- Show care and concern for others, for living things
and the environment. PSRN- Show an interest in
shape and space by playing with shapes or making.
CLL Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of
their experiences. PD Engage
in activities requiring hand–eye coordination. Use one-handed tools and equipment. CD Use language and other forms
of communication to share the things they create, or to indicate personal
satisfaction or frustration.
Some of the activities we will be
doing this month to support this will be:
· Christine H will be looking at growing things
for eating with the children. She will be bringing in some interesting fruits
for the children to explore the properties of, talk about how they are grown
and where and taste them. She will also be growing cress with the children to
make sandwiches out of.
· Laura J, with the children will continue to
track the development of the caterpillars as they make their way from their
cocoons to life as a butterfly. She will also be making some butterfly prints
with the children
· Cristina will be helping the children to make
some books where they are able to sequence lifecycles of frogs, butterflies,
hens and people.
· Laura Z will be researching Guinea Pigs with
the children and putting together a large scale book to use in the book corner
with images of Guinea pigs and interesting facts about them.
· Jenny will be continuing the development of
the gardening patch with the children from the flower bed to a vegetable
garden- planting and growing vegetables that we can eat.
· Laura W will be organising an excursion for
some of the children to an allotment to look at growing plants for food and
raising chickens. She will also be setting up a lot of messy play to explore
and role play gardening and the sensory experience of gardening.
· Rachel will be preparing a range of images of
gardening to laminate and decorate the outdoor area with and also use as
discussion cards with children to support language
· Set up a little gardening patch at home. Even
if it is just on pots, the pride children get from growing is huge and it
really supports the concept of caring for living things.
· Take your child to a garden centre. Look at
all the plants and talk about what they are, what they need to help them grow.
Look at the seeds, seedling, full trees and talk about the differences.
Spring time is
carrying on, partly because April to May has been so rainy, much of our plans
slowed down and were replaced with puddle play, but also because the children
just love exploring spring, colours, flowers, animals, insects and fruit and so
we’d like to spend some time exploring these in more depth.
The activities this month will
be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
KUW- Developing curiosity in the environment. PSED-
developing a strong exploratory impulse, exploring the environment with
interest. PSRN- developing interest
in classifying and organising items with intent. CLL Using language to accompany feelings, experiences and thoughts.
PD being to use tools and materials
for a particular purpose. CD-seeking
to make sense of what they can see, hear, feel, touch and smell.
Some of the activities we will
be doing this month will involve:
· Manjit will be setting up some flowers in
bloom collages for the children using tissue, straw and paint. Also some sand
collages using coloured sand, glue and tissue.
· Ella will be setting up some stamping
activities using fruit and vegetables to look at the shapes they make.
· Chloe will be talking about fruits and
vegetables in circle times using flash cards and different fruits and
vegetables. She will also be setting up some collages using seeds and pips.
· Sarah G will be setting up some garden play
for the children to role play gardening using soil, flowers, seeds, trowels and
watering cans. She will also be providing opportunities for children to look at
the shapes, colours and smells of a variety of unusual and usual fruit and then try them.
· Sara will be using magazine cut outs of a
range of fruit and vegetables for the children to look at and talk about and
then collage for display.
· Rachel E will be helping the children to plant
bean sprouts and tracking their growth through photographs.
· Sarah Louise will be focussing on using
Handa’s Surprise with the children to talk about fruits, colours and animals.
Some ideas to support your children at home:
- Buy some unusual fruits like lychees, dragon fruit, passion fruit, guava, figs and have a session trying them with your child.
- With colours remember to name the colours of things you are talking about or playing with. E.g. red rose, black cat, green apple. It helps them to start to connect the joining of words together and understand the concepts of colours and differentiation
