Obstacle Course

 C&L – Understanding

·        Shows understanding of prepositions such as ‘under’, ‘on top’, ‘behind’ by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.

Physical – Moving and handling

·        Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.

·        Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges, and considers and manages some risks.

Straight into learning this morning .........

Today Halima has set up an invitation to 'maths' and an invitation to 'fine motor development'.



So far this morning the children have shown a great interest in the fine motor activity .......

 PLAYING AND EXPLORING....
Being willing to ‘have a go’
• Initiating activities
•Seeking challenge
•Showing a ‘can do’ attitude

 

More photos to follow....

Writing outdoors.......

 

 Wendy set up a writing area in the garden. The children were invited to draw a picture or write a wish and hang it on our wish tree.

Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.

•Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.

•Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.

•Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.

 

The children chose to draw animals and make it into an 'animal tree'.

Tweenie Room - Invitation to learning

This weeks invitation to learning has been focused around 'We're going on a bear hunt' story. 

Snowstorm

             

Thick oozy mud

long grass 

St Mary's got talent .........

Observation: 'We're doing dancing, pretending to be on stage'

Steph followed the children's lead and set up a stage for the children to sing and dance.

Sun smart policy

There's no fun burning in the sun so stay Sun smart:

S - Stay in the shade between 12 and 2pm

M - Make sure you never burn

A - Always cover up

R - Remember to take extra care with children

T - Then use factor 30 sun cream

The Every Child Matters Framework has a ‘be healthy’ outcome.  This policy ensures the children attending St Marys Nursery @ Wensley Fold Children’s Centre are safeguarded from accidental injury caused by the sun.

At St Mary’s Nursery we want staff and children to enjoy the sun safely. We will work with staff and parents to achieve this through:

Education –These measures are in place from now on:

• Staff will include sunsmart issues within the planning for the children’s learning.
• One safety message of the month is ‘sun awareness’ this is during the month of May each year. The sunsmart policy and poster will be displayed on the safety message board in the entrance.
• Parents and guardians are made aware of what we do about sun protection and how they can help. (in brochure pack)
• We will review the sun protection policy on a yearly basis at staff meetings to re-enforce the importance of this policy to staff.

Protection – this is more of an ongoing process.

Shade

• We have shaded areas within each outdoor space.
• Staff will aim to provide outdoor activities under the shaded areas – during the hours of 11:00am and 3:00pm (if it is really hot children will stay inside between the hours of 11:00am and 3:00pm).

Timetabling

• Children will spend more time outside before 11:00am and after 3:00pm (unless under the shaded areas), in hot weather.

Clothing

• We will actively encourage children to wear a hat when playing outside from May (if weather becomes hotter sooner this will be changed) each year.
• Notices will be placed around the setting reminding parents to bring in a hat for their child.

Sunscreen

• It is parent’s responsibility to provide high factor sun cream, for staff to apply if their child attends the facility for longer than a 3 hour period.
• Parents give written consent for staff to apply sun cream to their child (on the child detail forms).
• Parents of children who access 3 hours or less childcare must apply sun cream before the session begins.
• There is an option for ’non application of sun cream’ for those children who’s lack of vitamin D is greater risk then UV rays. (Parents will be asked to sign a declaration)

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