and December?
Festivities, fireworks,
Christmas Carols, Diwali and Christmas season. Celebrating and exploring
all of the bright lights, fun and festivities of the exciting season that
is new to our little ones.
We are going to take our time
over this delightful season and spend a good six weeks enjoying it and
bringing it to the children with enough time to really let the children have lots of festive fun!
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The activities this month will be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:
PSED: Exploring
all of the bright lights and new experiences with the security of those they
are familiar with. PD: Using their
fine motor skills to explore and manipulate textures and items new to
them. C&L Enjoying rhymes and songs, listening and trying to join in
with actions and vocalisations.
Specific areas:
L: Using
books to see messages, items, ideas. M: Gaining
the understanding that some things exist, even when they are out of sight. UW: Observing change as the festive
world starts to emerge around them. EA&D: Using a range of media to
create festive works of art and decoration.
Some of the activities we will be doing this month to support
this will be:
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Making Christmas crackers, trees, fireworks pictures with Sarah and seeing them displayed.
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Learning new songs. Christmas
Carol practice for Carols by Candlelight.
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Festive collages.
Alice will be making collages with the children representing all the images of
the festive season.
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Divali shapes and colours.
Alice will be sharing Diwali shapes and colours with the children to explore.
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Christmas decorations.
Cristina will be making some Christmas decorations with the children using salt
dough.
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Christmas surprises. We
can’t share this one yet. It is a surprise, but what we can say, is the
children will be having some fun with Laura for your benefit!
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Sensory tent. Latoya will be
setting the sensory tent up for the children with lots of light equipment and
interesting discoveries.
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Christmas Treasure Baskets.
All of the team will be creating some Christmas treasure baskets for children
to explore tinsel, baubles, decorations, etc.
What you could do to support
your children at home:
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Take your little one on a festive walk. Slow down and go past the shops, lit up houses, etc and take the
time to stop and look in the windows with them while they are in their
stroller. Imagine how it is for them, fleeting past all of these new things as
you pace past fast and they never get to stop and look. So, give them a treat and
make special time to do this.
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Set up a treasure basket for them of Christmassy things. Let them touch, feel and enjoy being able to really investigate
them.
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Practice those Carols and come to Carols by Candle light! It will be great fun.
