18/10/2023
I have been quite frankly rubbish at keeping up to date with my page 🙈 I can only apologise…life keeps getting in the way!
We pass a post box every day on our school run journey and it’s always a talking point. The colour of it, it’s purpose, who visits it and why, a place to stop by…etc. Over the last week, the children have also been interested in our funnybones visitor so we decided to read the Funnybones story again and have a go at making our own skeleton picture.
The children chose whether they wanted to make a human skeleton or an animal or even a dinosaur skeleton! We used such a range of skills. Fine motor skills to use scissors to cut the cotton buds, hand-eye coordination to get the glue from the pot to the paper and the children made plenty of creative decisions about how they wanted their picture to look. We used white pens to draw the skulls for our skeletons and worked on our pincer fingers to stick on stars as our skeletons were going out at nighttime. We had to work on taking it turns to use the various resources and we communicated what we were doing and how we were doing it…so much fantastic vocabulary!
We then thought about who in their home they wanted to send the picture to and we wrote out the envelope. We talked about what we were writing on it and why and the children enjoyed decorating them.
Finally we went to the shop and the children did a wonderful job of asking the man in the post office for “three stamps please” which we had great fun sticking on the letters and posting in the post box. I just know they’ll be so excited when their “post” comes through their letterbox at home in the next few days ❤️
