Preschool Butterflies
CHRIStingle
We visited the church to construct a Christingle in preparation for the Christingle Service. We learnt what each component of a Christingle represents.
BONFIRE NIGHT
We learnt about Bonfire Night, why we see fireworks on 5th November and what they represent. The children created a variety of firework pictures using different media. We explored a sensory tuff tray which represented a bonfire using leaves, twigs, jelly and spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. Our Butterflies showed great enthusiasm, using their senses to explore the tray.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
At the beginning of our week, we revisited our traditional tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears. On Monday and Tuesday, the children were offered porridge for snack, just like the three bears.
For some of our children, this was their first experience of porridge.
Some children were not keen on the texture; however, some asked for more!
We began a group task where the children were encouraged to collaborate ideas to create a structure, such as a house. They decided to draw their ideas and place them in the outside area to remind them of what they would like to achieve. Our children have shown great enthusiasm for this activity, listening to each other, working together and finally ending the task by painting their creation. Amazing teamwork Preschool!
As we continue to focus on Autumn, we created a tuff tray with Autumnal items such as leaves, conkers, pumpkins and apples to encourage our younger children to explore a variety of textures using their hands. The butterflies explored coloured shaving foam, creating marks in their foam using their fingertips. We ended our week with our first baking experience of the year. Our children made apple cupcakes. They looked and smelt delicious!
Autumn Walk
This week, we have been busy exploring colour mixing using primary colours. We’ve used different textures when mixing, such as shaving foam, gloop and poster paints. The children have shown great enthusiasm!
We’ve completed an Autumn Walk in the school grounds finding lots of exciting objects. The children showed great pride in sharing with their peers what they’d found. We’ve completed our week with a shape hunt, looking for basic 2D shapes in our environment.
Our Bodies
This week, our Butterflies continued their focus on ‘Our Bodies’. We’ve learnt we have bones inside our bodies that help create our shape and enable us to stand, walk and run!
Some of our children could tell us these bones make up our skeleton and, without this, we would “Wobble like a jelly!”
We’ve opened a Junk Modelling station where children have used their imaginations to create some amazing models, such as their homes, using gloopy glue, cellotape, scissors and varying shaped and sized boxes.
What a busy week!
Our Butterflies continue their topic "All About Me" where this week we’ve focused on different homes and what these homes may be made of. We’ve observed some amazing creative play in the outside area where the children used foam bricks to create their own home, using sand as cement to stick their bricks together! For Maths this week, we’ve discovered who is the tallest in our class and the shortest, encouraging mathematical language, sizing our children from tallest to smallest and introducing number recognition.
Alongside all the above amazing activities, our Butterflies have made photo frames for their family photographs and iced biscuit faces using icing, sprinkles and chocolate drops to create facial features. What a busy week!
All About me
Our learning focus this half term has been 'All About Me' where we have explored our families, what being a part of a family means, where we live and the different types of homes we live in. Our children have created homes using a variety of resources, such as small construction materials, foam building blocks and large cardboard boxes where the children worked collaboratively to create an amazing structure with a door that opened and closed. It's lovely to observe the children's early mark-making skills when they draw their ideas on to a piece of paper before beginning their construction.
