The children had a lot of fun exploring colour
in August and a lot of the colours were linked back to the fruits they were
eating. Fruit is great fun to explore. They are an explosion of colour,
interest, smell and taste. They link so many senses together and we are going
to explore those senses this month to continue the interest in colour,
reinforce the learning and explore through all their senses.
The activities this month will be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:
PSED: Using
play fruit in context and role playing with peers. PD: Exploring
the will to try new textures and tastes. C&L
The understanding of words in context- to represent colour, fruit, etc.
Specific areas:
M: Beginning
to organise and categorise objects. UW: Explore
objects by linking together different approaches: shaking, feeling, tasting,
pulling, looking, turning and poking. EA&D Experimenting with colours,
marks, media and materials.
Some of the activities we will be doing this month will involve:
·
Exploring more unusual fruits. Sarah G will be introducing more unusual
fruit to the children to try, such as lychees, dragon fruit, Sharon fruit,
including fruits we don’t always think of as fruits, such as raw courgette,
unusual tomatoes and peppers.
·
Fruit printing. Alice will be decorating shapes of fruits by
printing paint onto the shapes using the type of fruit that corresponds. E.g. stamping
an apple shape with apple prints.
·
Jelly fruit. Cristina will be helping the children to make
some jelly fruit salad. They will take part in adding the fruits to the jelly
mix and then re-discovering them when they eat it.
·
Fruit collages. Latoya will be helping the children to make
collages of different fruits by sticking a range of different materials of the
same colour onto the right coloured fruit.
·
Fruit images. Laura will be displaying a variety of
different images of fruits and their names around the environment to support
the links between an object, its name and the familiarity of seeing a printed
word with it.
·
Trip to the library. Sarah G will be organising a trip to the
local library to collect some books about fruits and colours.
·
Sensory fruit. Alice will be setting up an activity for the
children to explore some very fragrant and / or textured fruits. Smelling them,
squeezing them, dissecting them and tasting them.
Some ideas to support your children
at home:
·
Take a trip to a green grocer or a market. Point out the different fruit (and veg).
Name them, describe them, talk about them, try them. Always talk. They might not be holding up their end of the
conversation yet, but they are taking it all in and it lays the foundation for
communication and language development.
·
Buy
some interesting fruits. Take the time
to sit down with them and eat them together. Talk about the smell, colour,
texture, shape, size, bumps and anything interesting.
·
Point
out fruits, colours and different qualities from picture
on posters on the street, books, magazines, etc.
