Many parents tell us they choose to send their child to nursery to help them learn how to play with others. At ages three and four, this skill often needs gentle support. This week we have encouraged teamwork and helped children practise sharing and resolving small disagreements.
Our work as the 'Fairytale Fixers' continued this week, helping Sleeping Beauty stay asleep in the castle by becoming her guards. This was tricky because the guards like to work in threes! The children had to look carefully at the numerals 1, 2, and 3 to figure out where to stand to protect Sleeping Beauty.
Following on from last week’s work on drawing continuous curved lines, the children learned how to draw zigzag lines.
In this piece of independent writing, we can see some of the children trying out the pre-writing skill, and it’s starting to appear in their mark-making!
To develop a good pencil grip and handwriting, children need to be able to move their finger muscles with strength, coordination, and control. This is known as their fine motor skills. In class, we provide lots of daily opportunities to practise and develop these skills.
Turning our zigzag learning into art with some hands-on printmaking using stiff card!
Many of the children are genuinely interested in learning more about writing their names. They are now very familiar with their ‘special letters’ (initial capital), so we’ve started recognising and, for some, writing the first and second letters too. Watch this space!
Thank you for attending our Read, Play, Connect session this week, where we heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Another busy week full of learning, play, and teamwork! We can’t wait to see what the children explore next week.