Flying Start @ Duchy went on a Morning Hunt in their Garden….
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And found ice!
There were little shards of ice hiding in the bark, and then larger patches covering puddled ready to be broken with some big welly boot stomping!
The children always check the weather in the morning and update their weather board but this time it was a little more exciting than wind or rain!
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Flying Start @ Duchy have been tasting different fruits and vegetables!
The children have been using all of their senses…
Looking and describing the colours, shapes and sizes of the fruit,
Smelling the fruits, feeling the fruits in their fingers and then in their mouths to taste them… at last!
The children tried a big selection, including: watermelon, grapefruit, beetroot, avocado, different coloured tomatoes, celery, Sharon fruit, radish and blueberries!
They started to use different descriptive words to explain their findings! Sour, sweet, crunchy, smooth were all used!
Flying Start @ Saltash have had a lively start to 2016!
The children have been enjoying lots of physical play, wrapping up warm and getting out into the garden and going out on walks also.
A hot chocolate treat on a cold walk helped to warm up the pre-schoolers hands and tummies!
Inside the babies have been exploring lots of different sensory opportunities, feeling different textures and materials in their hands and on their faces. They have also been exploring sounds with singing and instruments!
The toddlers have been getting messy in their sensory play…
Outside they have been collecting leaves and sticks and then using them to create outdoor leaf pictures, stamping them into paint and then identifying their prints on the paper. With support the children recognise the different shapes and sizes of the natural objects.
Keep an eye on the blog for more news of what the children @ Flying Start Saltash are enjoying and exploring!
Flying Start @ Helston’s Babies Explore Different Lights!
The babies have been exploring some new sensory experiences this week…
With different lava lamps, and fibre-optic lights the children’s attention was grabbed! They were touching and feeling them to explore them and pointing and exclaiming when the lights changed colour!
Hiding with the lights under material created some amazing colours and even better reactions from the children!
Flying Start @ Penryn Start Rugby Tots!
The preschool children have started Rugby Tots, a physical development program planned for young children to develop their motor skills, their listening and attention, co-ordination and team work!
Flying Start @ Penryn go on weekly Beach School!
The preschool children have restarted their beach school visits, taking their learning outside!
The children wrap up warm and then go down to Gyllyngvase Beach to explore their beautiful local landscape, taking the opportunity to not only continue their usual nursery learning such as counting, listening for sounds, making marks and physical movements; but also explore the world around them.
Learning about tidal changes, the weather, sea safety and stranger danger using their first hand experiences and carefully planned sessions from their Beach School Leader!
What an amazing opportunity for these children, keep checking in on the blog as there will be regular updates!
Flying Start @ Helston have kick started a Healthy January!
Each week the children participate in a cooking club, and so far these have been planned to be healthy and nutritious!
Cooking club is a great way for the children to explore different foods using their hands, tasting, smelling and looking. They also practice their control and hand eye coordination when using utensils or knives, and start to understand where their food comes from!
And the children are always so proud of something that they have baked!!
This week they made ‘Hedgehog Bread’ ,making the dough and then after kneading with their hands they used scissors to create their hedgehog spikes!
Flying Start @ Penryn have been putting their science into action… and into food!
The toddlers have been exploring mixing liquids, with colourings and seeing the changes! Learning that they can guess what is going to happen!
They have also been mixing different consistencies, adding more liquid as they go and finding out it gets easier to mix.
Here the children were mixing colourings to find the perfect colour for some cupcakes they were baking!
The pre-schoolers have been making soup in their cooking club, they chopped and prepared the vegetables before discussing what needed to happen to the vegetables to turn it into soup,
The children were guided to think about how we could make the hard carrots and turnip soft and able to be whizzed together to make soup.
The childrenĀ discussed how really hot water cooks the vegetables, and when they are cooked they feel and taste different, especially softer!
The children checked the soup lots prodding the vegetables to see if they were soft yet, soft enough to mash and then soft enough to whizz into a soup… then they just couldn’t wait so ate their soup for snack!
Flying Start @ Duchy do daily Finger Gym!
The children have been getting their fingers working and active with lots of different fine motor activities…
Threading pipe cleaners into a colander’s holes, using tongs and large tweezers, threading, pointing, poking and squeezing are all just some of the activities which help focus their brain and develop control and strength in their hands!
This helps in time to support mark making control, using cutlery, and general hand-eye coordination.
As well as this they have been using dough to have a dough disco!
Lots of patting, squeezing, stretching and rolling of playdough in their hands… in time to the music! Now that’s what you call multi-tasking!
Flying Start @ Helston have been practicing their writing skills…
WOW!
What amazing name writing!
