During difficult times we have based our planning on the children’s happiness and wellbeing. We have therefore been focusing on what is important to them, what they like, want and need, and we have particularly enjoyed learning about and celebrating festivals and special events.
As we think about moving on we worked together on activities that made us think about growth and change. We started with plants including lifecycles and growing cress, beans and flowers, before exploring fruit and vegetables as we began to think about our own health and our own growth.
Can we sequence the lifecycle stages in the right order Now that we know the lifecycle we can grow our own plants. Planting our own seeds Watering our seeds Exploring fruit and vegetables in play Colouring our Cress Trees Laminating our trees Adding our cotton wool Adding cress seeds Watering the cress seeds The patient bit – how long until the Cress grows.
An invitation to create potions, the children decided they were making food for the bees. Our spaghetti clock, can the children recreate numbers with spaghetti? Water play to cool down in the hot weather combining cornflour and conditioner exploring texture and change the children were very proud of their individual dough balls.
Exploring sensory play both inside and out.