William Gladstone Childcare

Colour Matching 🎨
The children had fun taking it in turns exploring our matching game where they had to find the correct colours to find a pair.

The children showed great understanding of their colours and was able to talk about what colours they could see and what colour they was going to choose next.

Over the last couple of days the children have been helping to fill little bags of ‘reindeer food’ for one of our festive activities. Some of the children liked to pick up and feel the oats and seeds enjoying the sensory of it or let it sprinkle through their fingers.

🦌 Hand eye coordination

🦌 Fine motor skills

🦌 Listening to and following instructions

🦌 Sensory

Thursday 12th December is National Christmas jumper day!! Can't wait to see all the children's lovely Christmas jumpers! 🎅🏻☃️🎄

Shaving Foam and animals.🐋

Today the children had shaving foam in the water tray animals were added. The children watched as the foam came out of the end and were surprised.

Some of our children explored the foam. But some weren’t happy with the texture of the soft foam with lots of encouragement from myself to touch it.

Little explorers 🔍

We had a wide range of activities outdoors today which the children had fun exploring.

We had a tuff spot full of different bugs this supported children’s understanding the world and their imagination skills when exploring the tray with the binoculars and the magnify glasses.

We had the bikes and cars which supports children’s physical skills and we created their very own road with cones and signs for them to look out for.
We created an obstacle course in the garden this supports the children’s gross motor skills and independence when exploring the course and gets them thinking on how they can take on the challenge.

Did you know that engaging children in "Heavy Work" activities can have an incredible impact on your child’s development? https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-05-heavy-work-activites-heavy-work-prevents-proprioceptive-dysfunction-and-fosters-proprioceptive-success/

This term the children have been looking at a story called “ whatever next”. This is about a bear that wants to go to the moon. So today the children created their very own little stars as they said the bear might see some stars. The children used some glitter to make the stars twinkle. The children sand twinkle twinkle little stars enjoy they was shining with glitter. They children all enjoyed his activity.

⭐️ They used hand eye coordination to put the two triangle together to make a star.

⭐️ The children all shared and took turns with each other.

⭐️ They all recognised some shapes when connecting them together.

NS- “ it’s twinkling and very sparkly”

IG- “ sticky sticky glue”.

Remembrance Day ❤️

Monday was Remembrance day the children all made their very own poppys to honour this very special day.

🔴 They all used hand eye coordination.

🔴 They shared and taken turns with each other

🔴 They spoke about what remembrance was all about.

Remembrance Day 11/11 - in the baby room the children made their own poppies using cupcake cases attached to lolly sticks then painted red.

🔴 Sharing the resources

🔴 Hand eye coordination

🔴 Fine motor skills

🔴 Creative and sensory activity

🔴 Colour recognition

Fireworks paintings🎆

The children have enjoyed our fireworks painting this week using a simple cup with cuts in and then dipping into colours.🎨

They listened to instructions and watched how others painted and made marks, this showed some good understanding skills.🎨

Using hand-eye co-ordination they could hold the tube and dip it into paint then transfer it onto the paper.🎨

There are SO many benefits to spending time in nature. What else would you add to this list?