Building fine and gross motor skills through imaginative play.

This week up at Broadway Playschool some of the younger children enjoyed
being outside in the sunshine and enjoyed doing some building & fixing in
the wendy house.  
We encouraged them to really explore and access resources from the outside store which got them to engage in building, shape matching and chalking.

Towerview older children also enjoyed time outside in the sunshine and wind,
the children worked out throwing up a piece of paper and then watching it
floating in the wind!!  It created a lot of laughter.

Great being ‘waited’ on by some of the children, coffee, tea, cakes and donuts in the home corner, nice chats and great little chefs!!! 

Being led by the children’s interest, main interest this week has been dinosaurs, on Tuesday a dinosaur had been and laid eggs in the outside area ( musical instruments that looks like eggs). In forest school today (Friday) the children found frozen dinosaur eggs they could see the dinosaurs inside the eggs, some children managed to get the dinosaurs to hatch by putting the eggs in water. 

With drier weather outside has been used more. The children are playing in larger groups where tag, hide and seek, running and ball play are involved.  They negotiate the games between themselves and taking turns.

The children have enjoyed exploring media and materials in 2 and 3 dimensions. Collectively the children decided that the grandfather clock for their hickory dickory dock activity would be 'rainbow colours' and what a multi-coloured clock it is! It was lovely to observe the children working creatively together on their project with a purpose in mind and how thrilled they were at the end result. Working individually and on a small scale the children created their mice by looking at the example template then choosing the shapes and materials they wanted to use. The end result were a collection of very colourful characterful mice ready to run up and down the grandfather clock! 
We printed an image of a Grandfather clock for the children to work from, many hadn’t seen one before, they did a brilliant job. Take a look in the home corner!