Good Morning Everyone … I hope you are all smiling…..
It might be inside weather today listening to the weather forecast….Lets hope we can still enjoy our gardens and our one walk a day…even in the rain!! where you can continue to discover insects and new flowers. I found a centipede in my garden yesterday. He scurried away rather quickly as I disturbed his home. I also found a new wild flower (new to me!) on my daily walk. I will have to take my wild flower book with me next time, so that I can learn its name.
This is a picture drawn by my nephew and sent to me.. He is 2 years old next month.
I love to watch how drawings develop when we give children plain paper, without any outlines, and a range of mark making tools, alongside of course our time and attention. As children explore the media, they learn the movements they can coordinate and slowly learn to describe the meaning behind these physical marks.
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- Development of drawing people
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- You could cut out your images
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- You could add your drawings onto your imaginative story telling.
I wonder what picture you can create today? Fast circular marks, dots, lines, dashes or imaginative imagery …maybe dragon’s, superhero’s princesses….etc
You might even create a ‘story’ from your image or marks? Or you might cut or ask you mum or dad to cut out your image so that you can use it within your imaginative play… Using block, bricks etc
Yesterday your challenge was to find 10 items and explore different ways of making 10. Thank you for the photos of your 10 items and lines. I thought the items you could find at home would be much more exciting than the things in my house!
We can use the items that you found and sorted in your house yesterday in today’s challenge. I wonder if today you can use 10 items IN YOUR PLAYDOUGH!! creating your own stories and explorations. The animals, paw patrol, cars, buttons can be added into the playdough to develop your explorations and your story telling. ( A playdough recipe is available on a previous blog page if you need it. Just scroll down the first page under FS base 1. )
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- Create a dinosaur land with your playdough
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- Create a magical world with characters and buttons
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- Just explore adding leaves and items to your dough.
I know some children do not like the texture of playdough on their hands but you can create small world imaginary areas from just setting out bricks a range of boxes, tubs and old rolls of wallpaper. Rolls of wallpaper always make great roads and allows a large drawing space.
Story Telling is SO important, for memory development , oral language, sequencing, imagination, self confidence etc. Being able to retell a whole story in the correct sequence involves a lot of skills. We can allow the children time to explore these skills through the use of small world items in playdough or by building mini worlds and through drawing. We also develop sequential story telling by learning a story off by heart. Repeating the same story again and again and again and again!!!! If I asked you to retell the story of The Three Bears you could manage this with easy because this story language is stored in your long term memory. We have to repeat traditional and new stories so that the children also have a wide range of stories in their long term memory. Last term we looked at The Gingerbread man.
This half terms story is:- The Enormous Turnip. There is also a rhyme we will learn about the story. It will be added onto the site soon.
Mrs Heap has created An Amazing Rhyme Time video for you to join in with. Just click the arrow below so that you can join in with her activity. ENJOY. We will add a new Rhyme Time clip everyday this week.
Day One (1) Click on the blue (1) for the words to rhyme ‘Horsey Horsey’ .
Enjoy your day and What ever story you decide to create, HAVE FUN. Remember to Stay Safe
From Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse.