Last month the children have loved being outside and have
been busy planting, smelling and watching the flowers bud so this month we
continued to expand their interests in growing.
When we were planting and growing children became interested
in insects they could see and observe in our observing tank. Children enjoyed
watching the snails, worms and spiders crawl around. Children went on a bug
hunt into Dolphins and the car-park.
From this we created a ‘song sheet’ about creepy crawlies,
children loved learning new songs with actions and gestures about growing and
learning the names of insects. The song that came out on top was the ‘Bee
song’. Children enjoyed using musical instruments to create sounds and dancing
to the song to create movements to the beat. The Sea Turtle children also
enjoyed learning what the animals do, by creating movements , we used lots of descriptive
words with the children to explain what they were doing e.g. crawling, under
and tall.
We created sunflower flashcards by taking photo’s each week to
help the children to understand the development of the sunflowers, to see if
anything had changed. This encouraged their language development.
