Making a volcano

This activity came from a child's interest. He had been learning about volcano's at home. 

This led to researching volcano's on the iPad, which went onto us making our own volcano......  

Playing and Exploring

Being willing to ‘have a go’

• Initiating activities

•Seeking challenge

•Showing a ‘can do’ attitude

•Taking a risk, engaging in new experiences, and learning by trial and error

Active Learning

Being involved and concentrating

•Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time

•Not easily distracted

•Paying attention to details

Creating and Thinking Critically

Having their own ideas

•Thinking of ideas

•Finding ways to solve problems

•Finding new ways to do things

Creating and Thinking Critically

Choosing ways to do things

•Planning, making decisions about how to approach a task, solve a problem and reach a goal

•Checking how well their activities are going

•Changing strategy as needed        

•Reviewing how well the approach worked

Road Safety

Holding hands

✔ When your child first starts to walk with you, talk to them about how they must always hold your hand. Make sure hand-holding is your number one rule your child always follows, especially when crossing roads. If your child is likely to pull away from you, use safety reins or a wrist strap.

Teach road safety

✔ Teach road safety to your child from the age of two using fun games and rhymes.

✔Make sure they understand the meaning of stop, go, traffic, danger, look, listen, walk, don't run, and other key road safety words.

Visiting the Cafe

 From a child’s interest in going to the shops, the eyp set up an invitation to learning where the children visited the nursery café to buy some ingredients to bake some cookies. They bought back the ingredients and carried out an activity in baking the cookies, yummmmmmy……

Mix Mix Mix

Planting sunflower Seeds

Planting sunflower Seeds

Eyp carried an invitation to learning for children to plant their sunflower seeds. The children showed interest the nature of flowers growing, as they talked about the steps from the seed to becoming a sunflower. 

Developing and understanding of growth, decay and changes overtime.

Understanding the world

Egg rolling

Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter.....

Threading with pasta....

ACTIVE LEARNING

Being involved and concentrating

•Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time

•Not easily distracted

•Paying attention to details

Keeping on trying

•Persisting with activity when challenges occur

•Showing a belief that more effort or a different approach will pay off

•Bouncing back after difficulties

Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

•Showing satisfaction in meeting their own goals

•Being proud of how they accomplished something – not just the end result

•Enjoying meeting challenges for their own sake rather than  external rewards or praise

Making slime

"Please can we have slime, I know how to make it"

Writing

 The  'national average' results for children achieving a good level of development at the end of the foundation stage show that  'Writing' is one of the lowest preforming areas.

We have took 'Writing' into the outdoors. The children have been  making marks on pieces of wood (this activity was popular with the boys) ......