With
the weather and season changing, new children starting, and the sun setting
earlier, we have decided that this month our topic will be changes around us.
We will be exploring colours, shapes, textures and sound, through a range of
activities both indoors and outdoors.
The activities this month will be
based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:
PSED: Explore
new toys & environments but checks in regularly with a familiar adult as
and when needed. PD: makes
connections between their movement and marks they make.
C&L: Have a strong exploratory impulse.
Specific areas:
L: Handles
books and printed materials with interest.
M: Say some counting words randomly.
EA&D: Express self
through physical action and movement. UW:
Explore & experiment with a range of media through sensory exploration
& using the whole body.
Some of the activities we will be doing
this month will involve:
·
Autumn
food. The children will explore pumpkins, butternut
squashes and other seasonal fruit
& vegetables with Manjit. The children will then help to make a pumpkin
cake.
·
Autumn
walk. Afia be organising walks to collect leaves to
bring back to the centre and create a collage with.
·
Weather
pictures. Using a variety of materials such as tissue
paper rice and cotton wool Christina will be helping the children to create
weather pictures.
·
What
we wear collages. Alice will be supporting the children in
making collages using clothes shapes cut out of different textured materials.
·
Sounds
like. Using musical instruments Amina will help the
children to explore the sounds of the weather such as rain drops dropping, the
wind howling and thunder crashing.
·
Day
and night portrait. Hannah will work with small groups to create a
day and night display and will be talking about the colours we can see during
the day and at night.
Some ideas to support your children at home:
·
Leaf
collecting. Collect leaves of different shapes and sizes
to explore with your child.
·
On
the way to nursery. Whilst walking or driving to or from
nursery, talk to your child about what they can see in their surrounding
environment, talk about the change in the weather, the colours of the leaves on
the trees and how they will begin to fall from the tree.
·
Have
fun in the rain. Explore the rain by putting on your wellies
and rain coats and go and splash in some puddle with your child, extend their
vocabulary by using lots of descriptive words.
