Ducklings Class
Sensory messy play. 25.10.24
We’ve enjoyed lots of sensory activities this week, some being a little spooky ready for Halloween next week.
We used lots of describing words during our play, the rice was smooth but hard and crunchy, the spaghetti was slippy, slimy and squishy, the gloop and spiders was hard but soft, cold, runny. The peas were our favourite, they started off cold,hard and icey, the when they began to melt they became soft, squishy,squidgy,and flat. The children loved squashing them so we added potato mashers.
We added herbs to our playdough the children realised that if the rubbed the herbs he smell got stronger.
Funnybones 07.10.24
This week we have been looking at the book Funnybones, we’ve looked at how we can’t see our bones under our skin and we need a special camera to take a picture called an X-ray. It uses a special light to help see our bones. We have learnt the word skeleton and how it holds our body up. We practiced out cutting skills making skeletons using straws and putting dog back together like in the story. Mrs Neath found a big Funnybones floor book and the children have loved looking at it and retelling the story using the pictures.
We have really enjoyed exploring our bodies and learning different names of the bones. We all remembered the name for the bones in our fingers as it sounded sooo funny, phalanges! We watched a funny skeleton dance and joined in. https://youtu.be/e54m6XOpRgU?feature=shared
Some of us helped Miss Denney finish our funny bones display by making the starry night sky and the houses for the dark dark street, we used boxes to make houses and flats as well as drawing round shapes to make paper houses. We spoke about what our houses were like and what type of houses we see on the way to school, did any of them look like the ones pictured in our story?
Welcome to Foundation!
We have started our topic 'Marvellous Me!' across Early Years, we have been looking at our faces and the different features which we have that make each of us UNIQUE. We then tried to paint or draw our faces in a variety of ways. Our Cygnets (2-3) have tried to build their faces using paper plates to help with the shape. Our Ducklings (3-4) have tried to paint the different features using a variety of different shapes, sizes and colours. Our Foundation (Robins and Kingfishers) used mirrors to look our faces and draw the different features using pencil. We think they look FANTASTIC, Well done Early Years!