Over
the last few weeks a lot of the children have been using a variety of
construction materials to build rockets, and talking about going to the moon,
to extend the children’s interest in Space, our topic for September will be Outer Space.
The activities this month will
be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:
PSED: Begin to accept the needs of others and can
take turns and share resources. PD: Show
control in holding and using jugs to pour, hammers books and mark making tools,
and to use simple tools to effect changes to materials. C&L Show an interest in playing with sounds, songs and rhymes,
developing an understanding of simple concepts
Specific areas:
L: Listens to and joins in with stories and poems.
M: Use shapes appropriately for
tasks. UW: talk about why things
happen and how things work. EA&D: Use
available resources to create props to support play.
Some of the activities we will
be doing this month to support this will be:
·
Bottle
rocket experiments. Marie Claire will be supporting the
preschool children as they experiment with building and testing bottle rockets.
·
Looking
at the night sky. Using
the projector Matthew will be showing the children the sky at night looking at
the solar system and star constellations.
·
Paper
Mache Planets. Emma
will be helping to make planets out of Paper Mache and setting up a space
display in the sensory room.
·
Paper
plate spaceships. Abongi will support the children in making 3D
spaceships using paper plates and other materials.
·
Junk
Model rocket.
Christine will work with the children to make a rocket using large boxes
and junk modelling and then use this in a role play session.
·
Songs
and stories. The children will enjoy listening to stories
about space and learn new songs about the planets and outer space.
What you could do to support your children at home:
·
Science Museum. Take a visit to the science
museum with your child to have a look at the space display, use lots of
descriptive words as you walk around the museum, get your child to talk about what their
favourite thing was about the trip,
·
Make rockets. Use tubes, boxes, tape and
card to create rockets, alien and planets with your child, the internet has
lots of ideas on how to create space themed items.
·
Learn some new songs. There are lots of space
themed songs that you could learn with your child.
