Materials
We have been learning about and investigating materials such as glass, plastic, metal, paper, wood and fabric. We also talked about recycling and have been busy re-using our rubbish and recycling at our Nursery.
It's Cold
We had fun learning about frost, ice, freezing and melting. It was fun making a huge Jack Frost by mixing paint to make shades of blue and using shiny materials for icicles. Then we made icy, cold snowflakes.
We also put some water into a bowl with some toys and then set it into the freezer overnight. In the morning the ice was frozen. We put it on our tuff spot and used hammers to chip at the ice to get the toys. While we were doing this we observed how the ice started to melt.
There were lots of opportunity to explore and investigate as we made our very own snow in the sand tray, played developed our sensory awareness with white foam and built our own igloos using sugar cubes.
Birds in Winter
As part of our topic of Winter we have been learning about how important it is to look after the birds. Using recyclable materials we got to work making bird feeders. We filled our feeders with bird seed and food and then hung them out. Not long after we noticed lots of birds tweeting and singing in the trees. Using our bird chart and binoculars we enjoyed bird watching to find that the most frequent visitor to our garden was the starling!
We also enjoyed being creative and working with clay. Some of us made slabs and used tools to mark and draw little birds while others made nests and eggs.
You will see that we enjoyed painting some of the birds in our garden.
