The tweenies have been looking at numbers and using resources in our room to help us count from 1 to 5 and continuing to 10. The tweenies have also enjoyed accessing the locks and bolts puzzle which helps to develop their fine motor skills. We have also enjoyed playing outside in the garden in the lovely sunshine. We have introduced a lunch display so that the tweenies know what they are having for lunch.
Tweenies have enjoyed making sun catchers using C.D’s, glue and glitter. We have been looking at body parts and have been singing head, shoulders, knees and toes. We have enjoyed our new group times and have been using these times to work towards our next steps such as sharing and turn taking, colour recognition and language development. We have enjoyed making our summer display using a variety of materials and resources.
Over the past few weeks in tweenies have enjoyed reading ‘Upsy Daisy Loves the Ninky Nonk’ and we made a display based on this. We have been doing lots of drawings with the pens helping us to develop our colour recognition. We have also been decorating shapes and using the wooden blocks to help us identify these. We have brought a highchair and more dolls into the room and the tweenies have enjoyed using these to extend their role play. We have had lots of soft toys in our cosy corner and the tweenies have enjoyed giving them lots of cuddles.
Over the past two weeks we have been learning about the colours blue and yellow. We have explored blue and yellow water, paint, pencils, pens and crayons. We have also been practising getting ready for the garden independently putting our hats and scarfs on. We have been reading lots of ‘In the Night Garden’ books and dancing to some new songs! We have welcomed Mia into the tweenie room. We have also been spending a lot of time playing with the farm and animals so over the next week we are going to make some animal pictures of our own for our new display ‘Spring on the Farm’.
Over the past few weeks the tweenies have had lots of fun exploring the snow! We have had snow in the water tray, painted a giant snow cloud using white paint and shredded paper. We also made snow flakes from paper mache We have celebrated Cooper and Aaron’s birthdays who both turned two, happy birthday!! We also celebrated Burn’s Day by painting some bagpipes and gluing some lovely Scotland flags! We have had lots of fun exploring different textures such as gluck and playdough. We also have a new home corner, story corner and water tray and have had great fun investigating these areas. We have been looking at shapes and colours recently choosing one colour each week to learn. This week we have been looking at the colour red using red water, red paint and red colouring tools. Finally we have also been talking about Chinese New Year the children got creative colouring in Yin the snake and making Chinese lanterns.
We have welcomed Sofia and Adam into the tweenie room over the Christmas period and they have both settled very well. The tweenies have enjoyed learning about different shapes and colours. We have created a display using paint and different gluing resources. We have enjoyed going for a walk in the new quad buggies to collect leaves and sticks to explore in the sand and water trays.
Over the last few weeks in Tweenies we have been reading the story book “The Three Little Pigs” and we created our new wall display. We have been exploring different creative play such as paint, glue, flour, gluck and bubbly water. We have been on a walk down the Heugh and were looking for different animals. We are now working on a new display in our home corner looking at the animals and transport we have seen.
In the tweenie room we have worked together to create a number display. We have been very interested in reading stories particularly ‘What’s the Time?’, a Peppa Pig book we have started a display for, and ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We would also like to welcome Callie and Andrew into the Tweenie room. They have settled beautifully.
The babies and tweenies had a great time at Polson Park last week. They went to the park to pick daffodils for spring and to have a picnic. The babies have enjoyed painting with the fruit and daffodils to create a picnic display and the tweenies have painted pictures of daffodils. We have welcomed Fern into the baby room this week. She is settling beautifully.
The tweenies have been planting cress seeds in yogurt pots using cress seeds and wet cotton wool and have been helping to water them. They have enjoyed watching them grow.