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Andrea and Caroline’s groups have been looking closely at one of the plants they have in their environment. Observation is an important skill for our children to evolve and being able to talk about what they notice, and then the process of drawing captures each child’s ideas. Their drawings and paintings then allow us as Educators to discuss with the children their thoughts and ideas around the object being observed. These conversations support us in what to offer the children to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
‘It’s got holes, Turtles eat leaves. That’s a little one (hole), they’re not opened, this one is rolled up, that’s a bendy one’.
‘There’s leaves. It’s got a pot with water. Some small ones (leaves). It’s curly like my hair’.
This week we had a visit from Caroline Bestwick who works for the special care dental service. She spoke to the children about what food is healthy for our teeth as well as how to keep them clean with regular brushing. Caroline also spoke with the children about being ‘too big’ for dummies and bottles because they are not good for teeth now they are older. We will have a bucket available for any bottles or dummies if the children want to give up in the nursery garden next week.
This week the Educators have been thinking carefully about the learning environment for the children and on Monday, all the learning spaces were evaluated using an audit tool. Each room has had alterations including where and how resources are displayed. We have some photographs to share with you and the children have been incredibly observant noticing and talking about the changes they have noticed.
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The Educators have been provoking children’s thinking about patterns by placing images with visually engaging patterns for the children to look at and imitate or be inspired by. We can see children’s ever evolving observation skills through their increasingly detailed paintings and pictures.
For those parents who came into school this week for Parent Partnership meetings, we hope you enjoyed looking at the photographs of how important construction materials are to children’s thinking and learning. Yesterday some children in Natalie’s group demonstrated the power of construction play and created an amazing ‘city’. The thinking processes of the children can clearly be seen with the creation of several enclosures all fitting together to create spaces for the children’s imagination to flourish. We can see ideas of pattern and symmetry evolving within the construction and Natalie observed high levels of cooperation amongst the children.
On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day. We wore our pyjamas and had bedtime stories and hot chocolate. The children had voted for a story from a choice of two, and the Children listened to this story and they engaged in activities linked to the story. The children really enjoyed showing their pyjamas to each other and noticing the different pyjamas that the adults were wearing too. We hope your child enjoyed their day and the book ‘Dinosaur Roar and Friends’ that came home with their book token.
As the children grow in confidence at subitising amounts without counting, they are playing games with each other or inviting adults to play by asking ‘what do you see?’ The children’s knowledge of what makes up an amount is evolving and they are showing their knowledge in lots of situations, demonstrating that they have a growing depth of understanding.
Children’s observation skills are evolving in many ways at school. Recently the children have been noticing the daffodils starting to grow in the garden and bunches of daffodils have been visible to the children inside nursery too. Other plants such as amaryllis are growing in each classroom so that children can observe the growing process. This week we have drawings of daffodils and amaryllis to share. The drawings show how much the children are learning by looking closely and their representations of the flowers are incredibly detailed.
Working with construction materials evolves a wide range of knowledge, skills and thinking for our children. Spatial understanding of how shapes fit together as well as their properties develops over time and children’s thinking processes can be observed and noted by the Educators. The thinking processes of the children reveal their ideas, knowledge and motivation. Here is a selection of photographs across a range of materials that reveal these characteristics of learning.
This week we have photographs of Caroline’s new children settling in and exploring all the resources and materials we have on offer. The children are getting used to our nursery routines and coming to school every day.
We have welcomed our new children into school this week. We know it is challenging at present because parents are not yet able to come inside but we would love to share some of what the children are doing whilst they are settling in. This week we are posting photos from Claire and Kirstie’s group.