Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Make Big Art!

Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Make Big Art! 

The pre-school have been making big artwork creations and all working together & having great fun!

The children have been using scissors independently, and then using glue, tissues paper and boxes to create a role play fire engine and ambulance!

They had great fun using their imaginations and improving their motor skills to create something they could sit in and role play with!

     

Great work Marjon – look how proud the children are of their creation!

Flying Start @ Marjon Toddlers Explore Experiments!

Flying Start @ Marjon Toddlers Explore Experiments!

The toddlers at Flying Start @ Marjon have been exploring science experiments, and reacting to them!

The children all sat around the table and took it in turns to use pipettes to squeeze vinegar on a bicarbonate powder heart shaped cake…

The children were all concentrating really hard on what was happening, and enjoyed watching the reaction!

When they squeezed the vinegar on the cake, the children thought it looked like snow!

Flying Start @ Marjon Have Storybook Fun At Forest School!

Flying Start @ Marjon Have Storybook Fun At Forest School!

This week, the children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been reading ‘The Stick Man’ down in the forest hut!

 

    

They have had a great time exploring the book and making different stick men out of play dough, sticks and natural materials that they have found in the forest!

The children even climbed trees and pretended to be the stick man in the stick man’s house!

After all the fun was had down at the forest, the children came back up to do a science experiment, with all the different nature objects they had found… The children had to found out what objects would sink and which would float!

What amazing Forest-based exploring and learning!

Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Do Science Experiments!

Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Do Science Experiments!

The pre-schoolers at Flying Start @ Marjon have been exploring some very exciting science experiments!

The staff set up some bottles, which the children took it in turns to pour the ‘magic’ powder into… to make them fizz and explode!

The children were very excited by the experiments, and had lots of fun exploring science!

Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Role Play as Doctors!

Flying Start @ Marjon Pre-School Role Play as Doctors!

This term in the pre-school at Flying Start @ Marjon, they are learning about and thinking about the people who help us…

The children have had great fun dressing up as Doctors and using their imagination when role playing!

They have used bandages to wrap up pretend bumps and cuts, and taken it in turns to be Doctors and patients – look how well wrapped up they all look!

  

 

Great work, Marjon!

Flying Start @ Marjon Make Snowman Cookies!

Flying Start @ Marjon Make Snowman Cookies!

The pre-school children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been getting festive, making snowman cookies!

The children iced their cookies, and stuck marshmallows on for the snowman’s head… and then added arms, eyes, a nose, and buttons!

Amazing concentration and great festive fun!

And of course, they got to take their delicious festive cookies home with them!

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Feelings Using Goop!

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Feelings Using Goop!

The toddlers at Flying Start @ Marjon have been getting messy, and enjoying themselves exploring sensory play!

They’ve been getting stuck into goop, and drawing different faces with different emotions in the goop!

They had some conversations all about feelings and emotions whilst playing, and it really allowed the children to explore this in a creative and fun way!

  

Flying Start @ Marjon Feed The Birds In Forest School!

Flying Start @ Marjon Feed The Birds In Forest School!

The children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been really enjoying their forest school sessions…

The children made a giant birds nest using materials from the forest, which took lots of hard work!

And then they used their fine motor skills to thread food onto pipe cleaners for the birds to eat…

They used cheerios and pipe cleaners to create special bird food sticks, and hung them up!

They even made special cups of food too!

   

Great work Marjon!

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn!

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn!

The children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been getting out and about in the fresh air, to explore the beautiful season of Autumn!

They’ve been playing in the leaves,and looking at all the amazing colours that they can see!

They’ve been jumping and enjoying the crunchy noises of the leaves under their wellies too!

Great fun had by Marjon!

Flying Start @ Marjon Celebrate Children In Need!

Flying Start @ Marjon Celebrate Children In Need! 

The baby department at Flying Start @ Marjon have been celebrating Children in Need and Pudsey, by wearing their pyjamas into nursery!

They had lots of fun cooking and decorating special Pudsey cakes – and made them spotty!

 

Look at how fantastic they look!

Meanwhile, the pre-school department also wore their pyjamas in, and made special biscuits!

They all had a go at mixing the ingredients to make the biscuits…

And then once they had cooked & cooled, to ice and decorate them! They even used special mini marshmallows to make the biscuits spotty!

 

What a great Pudsey day, Marjon!