In Nursery This Week
The Dormice children continue to investigate and explore ‘the farm’. We have explored, manipulated and played with different materials, making farm models. The children used indoor and outdoor spaces to pretend playing the role of a Farmer, using equipment to carry out all the farm jobs!
Inside, Badgers and Hedgehogs have been relaxing in the Little Crackers role play café, taking turns to be the server and the customer, and speaking ever-so-politely in their best ‘out and about voices’. They have been trying to keep a good tripod pencil grip whilst jotting down orders.
The children have had great fun honing their pouring skills, filling all sorts of different capacity containers and practising: full, nearly full, half full, nearly empty and empty. Judging when the water is about to breach the edge of the container and overflow requires a sharp eye and a steady hand! They have thoroughly enjoyed working with their own individual trays at this useful life skill. Later during the week, the children estimated how many cups they could fill pouring from different sized jugs, before testing out their guesses.
Outside, the children have held hilarious Speedy Server races, competing in pairs, tea towel draped over an arm, to transport a tray with a cup balanced on it, from the serving counter to the customer’s table. The races became more challenging through the week, as the waiters and waitresses had to transport cups which were nearly full to the brim; then to pour the drinks first before setting off at pace; and the final test was to negotiate obstacles on route.
During our Forest School session, the children were introduced to the second of our woodworking tools. The task was to drill a hole through their sawn wood slice. They learned to use a battery powered drill (with hands-on assistance) since they are not yet strong enough to use the hand drills for this task. Needless to say, this learning opportunity was received with great excitement and I was impressed with how sensibly and safely all the children responded to the ‘tool talk’.
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