Great cooperative role play and language

Throughout the week the children have been fascinated with buried treasure and hunting for it in the play school garden. They even started using an X to mark the spot. The play experience was extended further on Friday when digging for treasure at forest school. One of the children found a beautiful looking stone which lead to all the children being amazed at finding real treasure. 

On Thursday the children made meringue ‘clouds’ Good to see them counting out the spoonfuls of sugar, and using the electric whisk, some found it a little noisy!  Those who joined in were really engaged and fascinated to watch as the egg turned ‘fluffy’ as it was whisked, and then changed again as the sugar was added, becoming ‘shiny’ and ‘silky’.  

They were so excited! 

The 2-3yr children at the URC group enjoyed building bridges with the planks wooden logs and crates. They tested their balancing skills and some showed empathy by offering their hand as support to help their peers across the bridge. 

It was lovely to see the children interacting with each other at Forest School searching out wiggly worms and counting them and also making and flipping tasty pancakes in the mud kitchen!

The children were engrossed in the story of goldilocks and the three bears using props from the story sack.The children showed sustained attentive listening, responding to what they heard and responded to adult questions with relevant comments, questions and answers.

The art table was accessed by a number of children who enjoyed making their own decisions as to what media and materials they preferred to create their intended designs.Some children understood that different media can be combined to create new effects.

Enjoying the outdoors 

It’s been great seeing some of the children using the bats and balls great hand eye coordination and attempting to hit it backwards and forwards to each other, also with the larger footballs some children drop kicking the ball fantastic coordination.

It was lovely to see the children playing outside later in the week enjoying the morning sunshine! Some great construction materials being used to make a house (blocks & wood ) and a ‘walkway’ created by using the milk crates. 

This week on Friday we had some really good, strong tree climbing from some
of the children.  They really enjoyed it and showed strength & confidence.

So this week we tried the ‘tornado in a jar’ experiment.  First attempt was using a plastic bottle, we added a bit too much washing up liquid so that when we shook it it became really cloudy.  With the second attempt we tried a glass jar remembering to reduce the amount of washing up liquid, shaking it we were able to see the tornado for a split second!  We explored the idea of adding glitter which was much more interesting for the children and they seemed to enjoy it swiping then settle at the bottom.