Matching Colours

J is becoming more aware of colours, when we are out and about he tells me the colours of wagons and cars.  Sometimes he gets the colour correct, sometimes not.


I set up an activity to help with colour recognition and matching.  I drew 6 lines on a piece of white card, and using different coloured pens I wrote the colour name in each row.

I then got 6 pieces of different coloured paper corresponding to the colours I had written on the card, and cut out squares.

I explained to J that he should glue the coloured paper along the same coloured row.

Throughout the activity J sometimes got the name of the colour muddled up, however he was always able to match the colour and glue it in the correct place.

M joined in with the activity by glueing his coloured squares randomly!

Frogspawn!

There is a pond near to my house that we walk by on the way to school each day.  The children noticed that there is a lot of frogspawn in the pond, so each day we go and have a look at it, sometimes there are frogs there too, other days the frogs are hiding.  The children love it!


We collected some frogspawn last week which is now in a glass bowl in the kitchen, it is the first thing the children notice as they walk in, and the changes in the frogspawn over the last week are immense.  Each day we check to see what is happening now.

Day 1 of frogspawn

Day 2 and already the frogspawn has started to change.

Day 3.

Day 4.

This afternoon J did a frogspawn, tadpole and frog picture.  He coloured in a frog and a tadpole and then I cut them out while J glued blue tissue paper onto card to make a pond.  J drew black dots onto bubble wrap to make frogspawn.  He then glued everything onto the pond to create his finished masterpiece!

'Stained Glass' Painting

I am loving watercolour paints at the moment, I think that the effect they give are really pretty!  


The children created some beautiful stained glass effect paintings using white card, masking tape and watercolour paints.


Here is the one that I made to show the children in advance what it would look like, they were very excited to get going...

Aren't they pretty!

Space Rocket

During the previous term, Albie and H have been learning about the stars and moon; in order to expand on this we made a space rocket so that the children could zoom up to the moon.  Luckily I had a HUGE piece of cardboard and a LOT of tin foil!  The children assisted in taping the foil to the cardboard, then the rocket was ready!  We did discuss adding embellishments to the rocket in the form of painting it, adding jewels, buttons, glitter etc.  The children chose not to do this - they wanted to play in it!!


Initially the rocket was used as a rocket - after that it became a prison, then it became a den, and it was always a great place to hide during hide and seek!


Alas the rocket is no more - it has zoomed off to the tip (there is only so long I can have a 5 foot tall tin foil covered piece of cardboard in the dining room before it drives me mad!) - but fear not, we have some more boxes to make other things out of soon!!

 On the following photos it looks like the children are attacking M, they aren't, they are tickling him - rest assured - I never allow the torture of small children in  my care!

I apologise for the quality of the photos - the children were far too excited to stand still and pose!

Happy St Davids Day

At the beginning of the year I produce a plan of different dates that we will celebrate throughout the year, and some ideas of the activities we can do in order to celebrate the date.  St Davids day was one of those dates - I had planned to make daffodils with the children, bake Welsh Cakes, read dragon stories and learn all about St David.  


St Davids day came and went and we did none of my planned activities as the weather was so glorious!  The children all wanted to play outside all day long, so that is what we did, well apart from a brief hour at playgroup in the morning!

When we got home we got the chalks out and drew on the fence, we played on the slides and the trampolines, we found ladybirds (which J really did not like!), we covered the car in soil, we sat in the paddling pool, we played with the ribbons, we chased the hula hoop, and we had lots of fun being outside and running about!

 In honour of St Davids Day I did teach the children that these flowers are daffodils!