Blog by Tag: EYFS

The children in our nurseries have been playing in our woodland area this morning.  They have produced a woodland shop with sticks, branches and leaves, they have worked cooperatively to manoeuvre on the adventure trail and they have played a guessing game using pebbles.  The game was a focused…

Expressive Arts & Design

The children enjoyed exploring paint and colour mixing with their feet this week. First they walked in paint with their feet covered in bubble wrap and created ‘dinosaur footprints’. Then they went barefoot describing and comparing how it felt using words such as…

The children have continued their bug hunting this week using the magnifying viewfinders. After an adult initiated bug hunting activity last week, these children were choosing to continue and extend their learning independently.  

Everyday is a nursery rhyme day in Nursery A but we are singing even more this week as it’s National Nursery Rhyme Week.  Here we are having fun singing ‘Row, row, row your boat’ with a partner.

Today we have looked at 2D shapes.  The children identified the shapes and then went into provision to find them.  We discussed not being able to pick up a 2D shape and that we would need to draw round these for them to be a true circle or triangle. 

Today we remembered the brave soldiers who fought in the wars.  The children watched a CBeebies animation that sees war as experienced by animals in a field.  The children have also loved making their own poppies using playdoh and buttons and pastels.  

Expressive Arts & Design

The children have been exploring with paints creating firework pictures and colourful pebbles for our woodland area. 

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

This week the children have been working in their key groups to find hidden bugs in our woodland area. They used their investigative skills to look for the photographs of different insects and to talk about their features. We will continue to learn about bugs this half term as we are reading ‘I’m…

Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden. 

This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…