Boxes of varying sizes have been filled with different objects to develop the children's understanding of size and shape with lots of mathematical language to describe the sizes using bigger, smaller, teeny tiny and huge. The boxes were then used to create models and there was some amazing thinking from the children about how to attach the boxes together using the hole punch to make holes to thread string through. The Sellotape dispenser was very popular to cut the tape to stick boxes together to attach the string. 

There was such great involvement when the children decorated the boxes using the felt tip pens and the paint pens to make patterns snazzy, jazzy, spotty and plain, just like in the story. The biggest box was the most popular and the children loved seeing how many of them would fit in!  It was lovely to see so much imaginative play using the boxes as a boat, a car and a cave! 

 

For their Special Books this week the children had to choose six things to draw in the six boxes on the paper and there were some very imaginative ideas! We had a bear with a broken tummy, park run and a banana in a boat as well as many other fantastic objects. There were boxes in the sandpit, to fill with sand and treasure whilst exploring different 3D shapes. 

 

One of the children brought in some boxes full of slime for us all to play with and we all had great fun stretching it and rolling it into different shapes - so a very big thank you!

 

We had lots of excitement playing the Listening Box game choosing favourite objects and making the sound of the object we found, with great listening to the initial sounds in the words using phonics knowledge.

Also this week, we have been celebrating Lunar New Year and it was lovely to have some books brought in for us to share. The children practised their cutting skills to make lanterns and added shiny stars and crepe paper too! The children listened to the story about the Emperor and the animals crossing the river to understand why it is a different animal each year. They also had fun matching the animals in the puzzle and playing with the Chinese food in the home corner. The children loved tasting the noodles and they found fun ways of eating them using the chopsticks.