Stop, ready, Go!

 The children have been very involved in road traffic role play, using colour codes to “stop, ready and go” which lead to some mark making speeding tickets!  Too fast in their bikes.  We explored the idea of making our own speed camera and traffic light with the junk modelling to use for role play. This involved measuring with a marble?! Exploring tools and what we need to use for sawing to make the post and looking at shapes to decide which would be appropriate for the task.

Children were encouraged to be creative with the conkers they found and produced a giant spider, there was some debate over how many legs a spider has.

At Forest School children had the opportunity to saw branches in preparation for the woodland fire the following week.  We practised our emergency evacuation too which the children coped brilliantly.

The children in the 2-3yr group made a collage bus, using a sample for reference they explored shapes selecting circles for wheels and squares for windows - problem solving, counting and positional language.

Great involvement and problem solving

 It’s been lovely to see smiley faces at Broadway Playschool (2-3yrs) and we have seen the children show some good painting skills, sand digging and balancing on planks.

It’s been really encouraging to watch the children get to know each other through role play and building constructions together. A super team effort!

The children are demonstrating good looking, listening and sitting skills at circle time recognising the symbols of the routine they put on the visual timetable.  The children are also recognising their name label to put on the tower.

There has been some great problem solving on how to collect up leaves from the ground and what to use to scoop them up.

The children seemed very excited when they spotted an aeroplane fly over Playschool. Following a suggestion from an adult a large group became involved in large outdoor construction building their own aeroplane.  Lots of problem solving working together to think about what they needed ie. wings , cockpit for the pilot bringing opportunity for vocabulary and language development. 

At Forest school we observed lots of activity in the digging area, one child discovered a dinosaur bone!  A small group were involved in fossil hunting too.