There has been much interest in music, dance and instruments in Sea Turtles, so we will be extending our focus inside and out and exploring a wide range of percussion instruments and making instruments too.
The activities this month will
be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:C&L: Encourage young children to explore and imitate sound. PSED: Engaging in playful interactions that encourages the children to mimic and respond to adults. PD: Using music of different styles to represent feelings such as happiness and sadness.
Specific areas:
UW: Demonstrate and value cultural and religious music. EA&D: Play alongside children who are experimenting with music. M: Use finger plays, rhymes and familiar songs.
Some of the activities we will be doing this month will involve:
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Sarah Louise will be helping the children to
make some musical instruments with plastic bottles and materials of different
textures and sounds.
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Laura will be making a movement bag with
different materials and textures and also experimenting with moving finger
paint and sensory activities to music.
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Sarah Louise will be introducing a range of
different music from different culture alongside related colours and materials.
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Sara will be setting up an obstacle course and
playing music at different speeds to explore the way the children react to
tempo and movement.
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Chloe will be setting up some disco sessions
for the children to move to music and light and also to combine bending,
stretching and reaching for bubbles as they dance.
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Sarah G will be exploring quiet and loud
sounds and the different sounds instruments make in different environments such
and in tents or in the outdoors.
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Sarah G will also be creating some new
movements with the children to favourite nursery rhymes.
Some ideas to support your children at home:
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If you play a musical instrument, please offer
to come into the nursery and play it for the children. Guitars are especially
good to strum along to our songs.
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You probably have a range of music in your
archives from different cultures. Sort some of it out and play it for your
child to dance to and just potter around the house to.
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When you hear buskers on the street, stop and
have a listen. Talk about it.
Collectively the children have been on a lot of holidays over the summer and lots of discussion has taken place around ways to travel. So we will be having a month focussing on the different ways we can travel.
The activities this month will be based around the Early Years
Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:C&L: Listening to others talk. PSED: Demonstrating friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships PD: Experimenting with different ways of moving.
Specific areas:
UW: Finding out about different places. L: Ascribing meaning to marks they see
in different places EA&D: Bringing a story line into their play. M: Showing an interest in space and
shapes.
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Cristina will be focussing on creating
vehicles through junk modelling and paint.
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Christine H will be role playing modes of
transport with the children and going on trips.
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Jenny will be looking at different ways of
travelling and creating a scrap book of photos, pictures and comments from
children.
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Laura will be focussing on moving in different
ways as different vehicles to music.
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Carole will be reading a variety of stories
from around the world and different ways to travel to various destinations.
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Rachel will be making collages of a variety of
different transport modes.
What you could do to support your children
at home:
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When out and about take note and talk about
the different types of transport you can see.
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Talk to your child about the different types
of transport they have been on, what they like best and why.
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Get into details of the different types of
trucks, what they are called and what they are for.
