Pitter Patter Pitter Patter Rain is Falling Down!
Our Curriculum Promise “I connect with the Wider World” means we want children to be out and about in all sorts of weathers – dress up warm!
In Baby Room 2 we’ve been taking advantage of the wild and wet days by using all our senses to explore light, smells, wind, and weather.
Have you heard the pitter patter of rain on the leaves?
Have you splashed in the puddles and seen the sparkle of light on the water?
Let’s go outside!
We are foodies! We are scientists!
Did you know Baby Room practitioners have been doing Action Research on what kinds of first-hand, hands-on experiences best support children’s explorations, curiosity, and scientific enquiry?
Getting stuck into Food Exploration – noticing textures and tastes, cause and effect – has supported children’s absorption and involvement in their learning – as they playfully explore, notice and experiment with food.
Have you noticed what happens to a tomato when it’s cut or squashed, poked or pulled?
Have you seen what’s inside?
Do you know what those seeds are for?
Leading learning – Building Learning Power!
We have been welcoming new arrivals into Baby Room 2.
And the children who are familiar and settled, experienced and confident, have been leading learning!
Such leaderful learning, such leaderful empathy.
They have been showing new children how to be resourceful – how to capitalise on the things around them to notice and explore, to be playfully absorbed, to problem-solve and communicate ideas through play.
Our Curriculum Promise “I am a great learner” means that we support children in showing curiosity and a strong exploratory drive – exploring the world with all their senses.
As children “post” objects, roll tubes, fill cups with sand, splash with water, squeeze the foam between their fingers, we are supporting them to communicate what they notice, collaborate with others, make links in the learning and be willing to “have a go” at new experiences.
All of these things – and many more – help children know “I am a great learner”!