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Flying Start @ Cornwall College Link Maths and Creativity…

The children mixed up their paints getting it to a sticky consistency before getting their shapes,

Then they combined their shaped with the paint using them as stampers, recognising the shapes and starting to join them together through their stamping to create interestingly shaped structures on the paper!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Go Shopping!

The preschool children have set up a Fruit and Vegetable Shop Roleplay recently and have been using it to develop their imagination based on their first hand experiences of going shopping.

They have been developing their awareness of all different fruit and vegetables and then make marks to ‘write’ their shopping lists, get a bag and then use their list to fill up! They have started talking about what they can make with their produce and how it helps make them healthy!

Last week the children went to Tesco’s to buy their fruit and vegetables for the role play corner…

Using their checklists they ticked off what they could find in Tesco’s,

Weighing their fruit and vegetables in scales and counting out how much they needed to buy..

Before using the self scanners, waiting for the beep, bagging it correctly (this took some practice!) and then counting out their money!

This was really good practice and helped to inform the children of how to play in the roleplay back at nursery, as well as helping to restock the shelves!

Next the children are going to plan their own recipes using their shop to stock up the ingredients!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Baby Department have been developing their imagination… through sensory play!

The children started by mixing water and oats, using their hands or spoons and practicing pouring and stirring themselves.

This children seemed to really enjoy the feeling of the oats getting wet and mixing them with their fingers!

Then the children got their favourite teddy bears and had a picnic!

They used the spoons (or sometimes the saucepan when the bear was really hungry!) to feed the bears and give them their breakfast.

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Toddlers Go On Weekly Forest Visits!

The children go down to the woods to explore the natural environment, learning about the weather and the changes the weather has to the environment.

The Toddler’s also explore the curriculum through the outdoors, this means they still focus on shapes, counting, listening to sounds, developing their language from what they can see and hear around them and of course getting creative in the forest!

Here you can see the children on a bug hunt and then making pictures with sticks and leaves!

This little girl has made a reindeer with her objects she found.

Keep your eyes peeled for more Forest School updates!