Some of the children have been busy making clay models, one
child made a hedgehog. With some adult assistant some of the children have been creating some super models in the junk modelling area, learning different ways to construct and connect with tape, split pins, glue and pegs. Among the creations are houses, a boat, giraffe and a bin lorry.
The caterpillars arrived and at being carefully watched to see how much they grow .........
The children have really enjoyed playing and exploring
all the different musical instruments - some Playschool percussion ones, some ones we have made including rhythm sticks and shakers.
Also we all made the best of the nice weather on Wednesday and
set up an obstacle course outside to practice hopping, jumping, balancing and throwing
bean bags. This was done as an adult led whole group activity in the morning and some
children continued doing it, helping each other, in the afternoon.
There has been some really imaginative role play happening, mostly outside. There have been children putting out
fires with buckets of pebbles, wearing helmets & looking for fires with
binoculars & also chasing other children to put them in jail! Some children were Queens & Princesses, dressing up and helping
or chasing firefighters back to put out their fires with their 'freezing'
fingers/hands & warning them to be careful they don t get 'frozen'!
Two of the boys played for about 15mins with the cardboard box & tyre sitting on the tyre & falling forwards & backwards into the box .... no words but lots of whooping & laughing. These actions were repeated many times until one of them played hide & seek in the box as he did last week Indoors some children made up pretend 'lunch boxes' with play food & boxes so they could have a 'picnic lunch' .
The children at Broadway Playschool (2-3 group) have been enjoying the music instruments and exploring the different sounds each make inside and out. There has been some lovely singing and good rhythm making. The fascination with the buckets, pulleys ands stones continues.