Outside Provision
We have been engaging in scientific enquiry.
Being curious, “looking out for” and noticing interesting things.
- Explore
- Examine
- Observe
- Wonder
- Find out
Using all of our senses to explore “sight, smell, touch, taste, sound” as we help make crackling fires in the garden – using ingredients to mix up banana pancakes to cook on the hot flames. Yum!
Collecting leaves in the garden to create our leaf crowns – noticing the different shapes, colours and sizes of the leaves.
Igniting conversations about changes in the weather
Have you seen our floor book, which documents all our learning!?
Going Out and About
The children have been exploring and responding to different experiences in the community- going out on the mini bus.
- Being big, bold movers
- Connecting to the wider world
- Woods
- Explore
- Find out
- Climb
- Test
- Community
- Senses: “touch, smell, hear, see”
Children have been making links in our brick area, “going on a bus,” lots of group collaborative play as they work together, and sharing ideas.
Core story “Duck in the Truck”
The children have enjoyed our core story this term.
Retelling the story in different areas of the environment…
- Children getting “stuck in the muck” in the sand pit – taking it in turns to pull each other out using familiar phrases from the story “I’m stuck in the muck, help”
- Squelch
- Slurp
- Suck
- Creating sticky, squelchy mud using our gloop recipe (corn flour and water)
- Story mapping, making marks for a meaning, belonging to a group.
- Listening to an enjoying rhythmic patterns
- Beginning to join in with actions and sounds
- Rhyme
- Story
- Sounds
- Listen
- Join in
- Making links
Igniting Provocations
Ramps
- Push
- Pull
- Woosh
Giving children opportunities to repeat, rehearse and revisit ramps inside and outside.
Collaborating together, building relationships, and planning.
