World Nursery Rhyme week

                            World Nursery Rhyme Week

                     November 16th- 20th 2020

Staying safe, fireworks and poppies.

 We talked with the children about keeping ourselves safe around bonfires and fireworks when we made our bonfire cake.  They all enjoyed watching the sparklers while safely keeping their distance remembering not to get too close!

The 2-3yrs have been enjoying the Hokey Cokey following actions and singing along.  

Both groups have enjoyed firework splat painting with teabags and paint watching the effect they make as the teabags hit the paper when dropped.  All the children have been keen to do apple print poppies to commemorate 100yrs since WW1 Armistice.

Towerview children have been introduced to the Winter Forest school site, they are enjoying the mud kitchen area and the ‘tunnel’, an area where the hedgerow has grown and cascaded to provide a shelter, very inviting and a good place to hide out.

Pumpkins, fires and sparkly spider webs.

 The children continued to enjoy using the colour paddles as a traffic light system remembering what each colour represented. Red- stop, amber - get ready , green -go, additions blue -backwards, purple- puncture and yellow petrol.  This activity was introduced in music and movement and then the children with adult guidance outdoors used the colour paddles whilst playing on trikes and scooters and two wheeled bikes. The  children were so confident in remembering what each colour signified  that they took turns at being traffic control ,enjoying instructing their peers in traffic management and a few speeding tickets handed out too!  

The younger 2-3 year olds have enjoyed building with the blocks outside this week and also have been sitting very nicely whilst enjoying storytime.  They have also enjoyed the process of creating their sparkly spider web pictures by drizzling the glue and shaking the glitter pots, and couldn’t resist the temptation to explore the soft glitter with their fingers.

They have a enjoyed exploring the stringy texture of the inside of the pumpkin willingly getting hands sticky!  One child initiated an idea of posting conkers through the holes we cut for eyes.

Children in the older group explored the idea of using the cut pieces as a shape sorter! They also took the opportunity to use the pumpkins to role play accessing the medical cases.  Others explored size and weight lifting them to see which weighed heavier as well as comparing sizes and using tools to try to crack them open. Lots of discussion and opportunity for language as we talked about why they only had three teeth and why it’s so important to look after our own to keep them strong and healthy.

During both Forest School sessions the children enjoyed crumpets and brioche cooked on the basecamp fire.  They used this experience to extend their role play by building their own fire with log pieces back at Playschool.