Another week of super heroes! The children continue to use their imagination and to explore open ended objects, media and materials to support their play.
This weeks mission with Super Croccy was to find baby spider. He kept running away and hiding from mummy and daddy spider. The children had to use their special powers to find him. Sometimes it was in some very unusual places.
Here’s a websites that give ideas for fostering imagination
The Imagination Tree click here
You will be pleased to hear that the Sports Day t-shirts are well underway, well done Clare! They all look fabulous.
The children have continued with their exploration of number six. We have been learning how to mix things up with a dice! Click here to watch.
Here’s and activity to do at home; Maths in the Bath.
Location: Bathroom Materials needed: Your hands.
Aim: This activity will help your child to understand that there are 4 fingers and 1 thumb (5 digits) on each hand and to recognise 1,2,3,4,5 digits without counting.
Ask your child to look at your hand and ask them: “How many fingers am I showing you?” If your child doesn’t say the number just tell them you are showing 4 fingers. Show your child 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 digits in random order. Can your child recognise automatically the number of fingers without counting? If your child doesn’t answer or gives a wrong answer just tell them the correct number without counting.
Or
Maths in Steps
Location: Anywhere Materials needed: Your feet.
Aim: This activity will help your child to count up to 20 steps correctly and to use words such as, more, same, and fewer.
Ask your child to walk from one side of the room to the other. Then ask them “How many steps did you take?” Now you do the same. Ask your child to count your steps as you walk. Then ask them: “How many steps did I take?” Ask your child: “Are the number of the steps the same?”, “Who made more steps?”, “Who made fewer steps?”
Or
Scavenger Hunt
Location: Garden/Green Space/Park
Materials needed: Things you can find in the garden like leaves, stones, flowers, and feathers.
Aim: This activity will help your child to understand and solve additions up to 10.
Ask your child to find 2 groups of objects. For example: Find 5 leaves and 3 stones. How many do you have in total? Find 3 small stones and 1 big leaf. How many do you have in total? Find 6 green leaves and 2 brown leaves. How many do you have in total? What other examples can you think of? If your child counts incorrectly, put all of the objects in a line and count all of them pointing at each one.
Good luck and enjoy!
The children have been using bricks and soft shapes to construct dens (and to have a just a jolly good time). Some of their building defied gravity!
As always in nursery we have been extremely busy. We have been watering the garden, writing to the ‘Poggle’ and looking for ‘Smeech’ who came into nursery garden and left lots of litter! Poor Smeech now gets the blame for anything and everything. Nobody has seen him so we don’t know what he/she/it looks like!
On Wednesday afternoon we had an unexpected visit from the Fire Service…don’t panic all was well. One of the children’s daddy drives the fire engine so he stopped outside the nursery so we could all have a look! It was very exciting!
Last but not least here are some photos of everything else we have been doing at nursery. It’s no wonder we are tired by Friday!
Here are the plans for the next two weeks!
I do hope the good weather stays for weekend and we can all fire up the BBQs. Have a lovely and restful couple of days and we look forward to seeing everyone on Monday.
Barbara