autumn treasure !

An excellent time was had on the conker and leaf collecting walk - the children listened well to safety instructions before hand and had a wonderful time finding huge shiny conkers. They then made a lovely autumn display in Playschool.

Using magnifying glasses the children investigated and explored the collection of autumn 'treasure; leaves, pine cones, conkers. They were showing curiosity and interest in the features of objects and describing and talking about what they observed. 

A story was read about a spider and continuing with their enthusiasm re-telling events in the story the staff and children made a giant spider sculpture using conkers 'placing and arranging' them on the floor to create a big friendly spider picture. When complete the children stood by their spider leg that they had created and all joined in with the nursery rhyme 'Incey Wincey Spider.'

they rolled paint on selected leaves and then placed them on paper - covering and pressing to make leaf prints.

Great counting from the children playing the game of hide and seek.  Lots of enjoyment in the sand using the dumper trucks and front end loaders.

Some of the staff Team attended an Early Years Conference in Worcester on Saturday. They had a very enjoyable day - learning and playing! 

CHARACTERSITICS OF EFFECT LEARNING Playing and exploring – engagement

 these characterisitcs have been seen in abundance this week - Finding out and exploring in nature under the conker trees, in the school field, forest school and playschool outside and in 

Playing with what they know - using the autumn trreeasure they found to do this Being willing to ‘have a go’- following staff lead and now more spontaneous