Mapping Our World
We have been ‘Out-and-About’!
We have been connecting with our Wider World.
Navigating and Mapping are so important aren’t they?
Finding our way around, navigating the best route possible, looking out for those oh-so-important landmarks gives us all a sense of place, of community, or our world.
Here at St. Paul’s our Maths Core Offer helps us plan ‘mapping’ experiences for children so that they can
Explain
Describe
Think
Explore
Notice
Talk
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I connect with the wider world” helps us support children to use a range or resources to represent their
responses to the wider world.
Children map their world through
Using all their senses
Modelling and Constructing the route
Drawing the landmarks
Interpreting symbols and maps
We use all sorts of mapping and navigating tools and techniques when we
Go to the woods
Go to the library
Explore the Nursery
Visit families!
Let’s Make Pizza
We want children to be confident with food.
To plant and harvest
To enquire and experiment
To play and explore
We have been cooking and baking and making a lot… Fruit Kebabs and Fruit Smoothies are some of our favourite things to make for each other.
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can be healthy and make healthy choices” supports children to explore a variety of food, to be interested and curious about nutrition, to understand healthy food and a balanced diet, to taste a wide variety of food from different origins and cultures.
Here we have been shopping for Pizza!
We made a shopping list.
And bought our favourite pizza toppings.
We talked about healthy choices!
Then
Chopped
Sliced
Cut
Sprinkled
Cooked
Tasted
Yum! Yum!
Curiouser and Curiouser!
Children are natural scientists aren’t they.
They are so full of curiosity and questions.
Even the youngest of babies and children seem to formulate theories, test out ideas, make predications and seek explorations, experiment with what they see and handle, make links in their learning and learn from experience!
Such powerful learners!
Such scientific enquirers!
So much learning takes place when children explore and experiment, investigate and enquire.
From practical skills of observation, to reasoning and thinking skills, to communicating ideas and findings, cooperating and negotiating, leading and collaborating.
Scientific enquiry supports all sorts of learning doesn’t it.
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I use all my senses to engage in scientific enquiry” supports children to
test and predict
Look closely at similarities and differences, patterns and changes
Make observations of animals and plants
Explore materials and forces
Describe, explain, problem-solve and reason
Here we have been experimenting with water and paint and Skittles…
And exploring shadow and light…
We even made our own volcano!
We wonder what you noticed?
Tricky Learning
We like to challenge ourselves!
We like to “take risks” in our learning and try out new things… even when we know we will get “stuck”!
We have been weaving and sewing… such tricky learning!
One of our Fundamental Five Values is Learning is Learnable and there are opportunities everyday to build our learning power through
Perseverance and resilience
“Stickability” and absorption
Rebounding from disappointment
Effortful control
Managing distractions
Collaborating and capitalising
Imitating and imagining
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can solve problems when I get stuck” supports children to practice strategies that are successful such as
Stop
Look
Think
Try again
Do it in a different way
Watch and imitate others
Hair Love!
Welcome to our Hair Salon!
We love hair!
We have been celebrating our uniqueness.
We have been noticing similarities.
We have been noticing our hair.
Our hair texture, hair colour, eye colour, skin colour is different and similar.
We have been making hair styles – twists, plaits, bunches, knots.
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I know my own uniqueness and embrace diversity” supports children to talk about their own uniqueness and identity, their sense of belonging and community, to celebrate themselves and others.
We have been celebrating our uniqueness.
We have been noticing similarities.
We have been noticing our hair.
We love hair!
