In panda room we have been...

 We have been exploring the many uses of I.C.T.

First we watched a small clip about 'Old MacDonald' and his farm.  

 Then we watched ourselves on the computer screen using the in built camera. 

We waved at ourselves 

and looked at our faces close up !!

It was really interesting !

 We have also been painting on a large scale using the easel. 

We explored the colours, textures and the marks we made. 

 We also liked using our hands to make marks.

 And because the music was on we danced whilst painting too!. 

 We have also been finding ways to move around the environment and practising our skills. 


We climbed on the soft play

And out in the garden we climbed over the crates and sleepers. 

Valentines Day and Road Safety Week

Valentines Fun and other activities

 We have never made Peppermint creams before they were lovely.

We made them pink as we think this is a good colour for hearts.

Making a heart shaped pocket to put them in to.

It was difficult threading the string but we concentrated well.

 We used a cutter to make small hearts and big hearts.

During Road safety week we played the traffic light game. We had to stop dancing when we saw the red circle and carry on dancing when the green circle was held up.


We now know to stop,look and listen for cars before crossing!

Exploring colours

 We have enjoyed lots of colour activities over the last few weeks here are some of the things we have been doing.
We looked at habitats and their colours.  

 Here we are developing our hand skills.

These tweezers are very tricky to use!

 Here we are looking at and tasting food that is green.

We are not too sure about celery!

 We painted lizards using cotton reels to get a the scale effect.

 In the garden we went on a hunt for green things. 
Look our play house has a green roof.
We can reach it.








 

 During red week it was also Chinese new year.

We explored noodles mixed with red paint.
We also used them to do printing.


We made our own chinese dragon and tried to do a dragon dance.

Can you see us under here?

Come on in and see our colour display.

Look at what panda's have been up too !

 In January we had lots of snow!!!



We explored the snow in many ways.

 Throwing it !! 


Scooping it using tools.

 Using our hands !!!



Brrrrr thats cold.

 We also collected the snow and pushed it around in a wheel barrow.

 We have also been helping the panda ladies to paint and make the Animal Ark for our display. 

 

 We also had fun playing with the bubbles and looking at ourselves in the mirror.

 We had to push the bubbles away to be able to see ourselves.

We enjoyed swishing the bubbles !!

Also playing Peek-a-boo with ourselves and the ladies. 

What's the Latest from Elephant Room?

The last week of January saw the children exploring the colour GREEN.

They mixed some cornflour, water and paint (blue and yellow, to be exact!). They played with the two colours separately, then 'decided' to combine these and lo and behold... it turned green!

Towards the end of this week, the children had a lovely relaxing chill-out time just enjoying each other's company so the grown-ups decided to break out each child's tracking books. These books have all their All About Me Books, WOW Sheets (newest discoveries and experiences), and the EYFS Profile tracking each child's journey as he/she learns and develops.

February ushered in yet more cold weather and the children decided to play with the penguins and polar bears. We know that they do not normally live together, but the children would not have it any other way. They even built their little icy community a lovely little ski slope for the penguins to slide down!

Red Week

This coming Sunday is Chinese New Year, one of best times of the year to explore new things and experiences. We started off with using noodles to print our lovely pictures which the children themselves hung on our display wall.

For lunch, the stir-fry vegetables with noodles and/or rice went down very well. The children loved the prawn crackers most especially!

And guess what... we found some cardboard inserts which would make a perfect dragon head, so we painted these and waited a long time for them to dry.

But by Thursday, we were ready to make our lovely Chinese New Year Dragon... and what a pretty dragon she was! The children made some long lashes and taught her to do a dance all around the garden!

Friday, the children were up for a little wander around the neighbourhood to look for red objects. We called this adventure "Going On A RED Hunt!" Look at all the objects we found!

Xin Nien Kwai Le  (Mandarin for "Happy New Year")