The Three Bears using Tales Toolkit symbols
Our Nursery children have been busy bringing the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to life, using our Tales Toolkit symbols to guide their storytelling! By breaking the story down into the four magic building blocks, the children explored ‘Character’ – Meeting Goldilocks and the three bears, ‘Setting’ -Exploring the bears' cottage in the woods. ‘Problem’ - Oh no! someone ate the porridge, broke the chair, and fell asleep in Baby Bear's bed! and ‘Solution’ - Goldilocks woke up and ran all the way home! The children then used the four part structure to create their own independent retelling of the story.
Introducing the Potter’s Wheel.
Our Nursery children turned into mini-sculptors this week as they experienced the magic of a potter's wheel for the very first time! With lots of sticky fingers, focused faces, and messy fun, they explored the slippery texture of wet clay and watched in amazement as it shaped and changed right before their eyes. It was a wonderful hands-on lesson in sensory play, patience, and creativity.
Story Wow - Introducing the Big Book
In our first interactive 'Story Wow' session the children were introduced to the props from the story and given lots of opportunity to talk about the characters and what they thought might happen in the story. In this second 'Story Wow' session we read the story from the big book and the children were able to use the props to act out the key events. Some of the children are already remembering and joining in with the repetitive phrases in the story such as "Somebody has been sitting on my chair". You can see from our photographs how engaged the children are.
Tales Toolkit - Unicorn Story
The children really enjoyed creating their own story using the props in the big bags. They decided the character, Rainbow Unicorn, went to space to see planets. Inspired by the patterns on our rainbow fabric they then shared their ideas of a firework show complete with many different sound effects and actions. Our problem bag contained a HUGE spider who scared the unicorn. Luckily our solution bag contained a monster to chase him away. Our interactive stories are so engaging for the children and they are so keen to get involved and share their own ideas.
Story Wow - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This half term our traditional story focus is 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The story was brought to life for the children during this interactive, hands-on story session. Puppets and real world props were used to provoke discussion and the children shared their thoughts and opinions about who they thought the characters were and what they thought might happen in the story.
Our Little Bakers - Making Apple Crumble
The children used some of the delicious apples grown at Forest School to make a delicious Autumn apple crumble. They chopped the apples and crushed the crumble. The children even followed a recipe. Take a look at our busy helpers in the photos below. As you can see the children really enjoyed eating the crumble they had made.
Little Scientists at Work - Investigating Apples
This week, our children turned into scientists to explore the inside of the apples grown in our own Forest School. We sliced open different apples to see what was hiding inside. Some of the apples had been pecked by the birds and some had developed holes in whilst lying on the floor. The children loved predicting what would be hiding inside. We practiced new vocabulary like peel, core, flesh, and pip, while building our fine motor skills by carefully picking out the seeds. Some children used the apples for printing in paint, whilst others chose to plant the pips.
Fun in the foam
We have been having so much fun using our senses to explore the shaving foam. The children have investigated how the foam looks, smells and feels against their skin. They used their fingers to mark make and create lines and patterns. When washing it from their hands they could see how the foam changed when the water was added. I wonder what we put into our sensory trays next time.
