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Flying Start @ Saltash’s Toddlers Copy The Little Pigs…

After reading 3 Little Pigs, the children’s story theme for the half term, the children decided to have a go at using sticks to make house shapes

The toddlers, moved the sticks around in the tray to try and work out how to make a triangle for the rood and a square for the house.

The children did colour matching which the sticks, shape sorting and recognising and also counting… before adding in their little pigs to act out the story!

This proved to be a simple, but really effective activity to teach maths whilst enjoying their favourite story at the moment!

Flying Start @ Helston Visiting The Library

The children at the nursery love to go out for a walk to the library in town, the Babies and Toddlers go regularly to a lovely ‘Bounce and Rhyme’ session, and the Preschool go to enjoy lots of different books… especially when they are learning about specific themes or topics.

After Bounce and Rhyme, the Toddler’s above stopped off to enjoy some new stories. They independently look through the books and ‘read’ the pictures to each other, sharing new ideas about the story book!

We think it is really important at Flying Start to foster a love of reading, if you ever want to borrow books from nursery… you can! Just ask your keyworker.

Flying Start @ Saltash Searching for Birds! 

The children went out to look in the hedgerows for birds, listening carefully they followed the sounds…

They realised that they had to stay really quiet and have their super fast eyes working, to spot them before they quickly flew away!

They took notes of what they saw to help them remember the colours and sizes when they were talking to their friends at nursery.

 

Flying Start @ Helston’s Toddler Toothbrushes…

Are put to unusual use in a fun painting activity!

The children have been learning all about routines in their day, focusing on teeth cleaning, washing, and bed times. To help develop their fine motor control using a brush they had a go at painting with them!

Brushing, dabbing, prodding and trying circular motions (which was much more tricky!) the children created some wonderful tooth brush art! What a fun way to use a tooth brush!

Flying Start @ Duchy’s Diverse Celebrations!

The celebrations spread across lots of areas of learning through lots of different types of play….

From exploring noodles using chop sticks and scissors in their sensory play, trying to master chopsticks using their careful fine motor skills in preschool, dancing to Chinese music with ribbon sticks and then making Spring Rolls for a yummy snack!

Carefully filling the pastry with our noodle, vegetables and bean sprouts that we had mixed up, before our cook baked them in the oven…

And the best bit! Yum yum!

What a busy day! Alongside all of this fun learning, the children learnt about Chinese culture, recognising that different people celebrate different festivals… but actually it can be a lot of fun to join in!