Blog by Tag: Creating and Thinking Critically

We have been comparing different objects and talking about if they are heavy or light. We used our hands to test their weight and then we looked at images and guessed if they would be heavy or light. 
We have a good understanding or weight and are using this independently in play.

We have been using crayons to develop our pencil grip and control. We coloured in and tried our best to stay in the lines. We then finished by tracing our names. 
Super fine motor SKILLS

We were so excited to see the snow this week and we loved using our senses and hands on exploration to explore winter. We talked about the weather, how cold it is and what can keep us warm . We used our hands to feel snow and describe what it felt like and made a class snowman. 

This week we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We have discussed  through books, videos and songs what bonfire night is and how different people celebrate. 
We used our senses to experience a bonfire night. We listened to different types of fireworks and used great vocabulary to describe…

We had a new role play area that we have loved exploring. We have used our personal experiences to take part in ‘shopping’. We are learning new vocabulary, how to create narratives with friends and lots of social skills.

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We took part in our first Forest School session with Autumn activities. 
We enjoyed leaf threading, mud painting, collaging with natural materials and pumpkin cutting.

We talked about our sea sea and used them for hands on…

Last week we drew pictures of our families, this week we have been decorating picture frames to put our drawings in.

The children have explored new tools and materials and learnt how to use them such as scissor skills, bingo dabblers, collaging tissue paper and glitter. 
They have chosen what…

We have chosen some of our favourite books to read in nursery. We talked about what we like about them, characters and key events in the story. 
pit was lovely to hear the children recalling the stories and discussing their interests with friends. 

This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members. 
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…

Today we worked in groups to make number blocks! We recapped the numbers 0 and 1, and incorporated our new number 2. The children did super and they can all recognise numbers 0,1 and are recognising 2 with little support.

We worked together to count out cubes and make up numbers within 2, we…

This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family. 
We learnt everybody’s family is different. 

We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear. 

We explored squishing and stamping on…