Blog by Tag: Fine Motor

Last week we drew pictures of our families, this week we have been decorating picture frames to put our drawings in.

The children have explored new tools and materials and learnt how to use them such as scissor skills, bingo dabblers, collaging tissue paper and glitter. 
They have chosen what…

This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members. 
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…

Today we worked in groups to make number blocks! We recapped the numbers 0 and 1, and incorporated our new number 2. The children did super and they can all recognise numbers 0,1 and are recognising 2 with little support.

We worked together to count out cubes and make up numbers within 2, we…

This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family. 
We learnt everybody’s family is different. 

We have created continuous line drawings of shells. We have tried so hard to keep our pen on the page to draw a full shell. It takes patience and concentration!

This week we have been learning about our emotions through the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We enjoyed reading the story and hearing about the different emotions we may feel. We talked about what things may make us feel a type of way and how we express our feelings. 

We have took part in lots of…

We have began our topic ‘All About Me’ and we started by looking at our body parts and facial features. We loved using construction to make up our body and describing the different parts. We practised using our body parts to move in different ways during our PE lesson and used loose parts to make…

We are always practising our name writing and we are making super progress!
Well done nursery, continue to practise your name at home to and show your families how super you are! 

This week we continued our learning around people who help us. Last week we focused on what they look like, what uniform they wear, what colours they typically have and we have now extended our learning to how they help us.

Super maths outside! We have been representing numbers and learning the correct formation through the number rhymes. I was amazed at their efforts. Well done Nursery.

This week we have learnt about people who help us. We have been focusing on what they look like and how to spot them in the community, this may be by their uniform, what vehicles the drive or certain places. we have began to talk about how they help us and we will continue this in more depth next…

We have been getting ready for reception by reviewing our pre writing shape progress. I am so proud of the progression in our pencil control and I can see lots of different lines and shapes being formed. 
this is the first step in reception to prepare them for their writing and they are already…