Peace at Last
Following our work on Owl Babies, we made our owl babies a safe and cosy owl house. We decided to add a roof to keep our owl babies dry in the rain.
We have had great fun making the sounds in the story and adding our own noises to the story too.
While we were thinking about sounds, we investigated materials that would make the best shakers. We decided that cotton wool was too soft and we couldn't hear it. We thought rice, lentils and pasta were the best shaker materials. We used our shakers to accompany ourselves sing rhymes and songs.
We have explored number in lots of different ways.
We threw bean bags into a hoop and counted how many landed inside the hoop and how many landed outside. We recorded what we found.
We used the play dough to sing the currant bun song. We counted how many were left each time.
We thought about the different ways of splitting our cakes but that it always made 5.
Outside the children have been using the large blocks to make some amazing constructions including this fabulous car with " a boot, a bonnet and a horn".
We have been using our fine motor skills to thread, stick and mark make. Here we made our names using stickers.
Next week we will be reading Stick Man by Julia Donaldson, and exploring using sticks for a variety of purposes including creating art work, counting and mark making.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a hat
Humpty dumpty had a great....
How could you finish this rhyme?
You could also find nonsense rhyming words for your family members and help your child make rhyming strings ...daddy, paddy, waddy etc.
Rhyming helps your child to play with sounds and words and think about initial phonic sounds which will help them when they are ready to write.
Have fun!
