The Cooper children’s investigation of nests continued this week
with cutting and collaging. Since the beginning of term we have noticed the
children have been keen to cut anything and everything with scissors, so this
week we set out scissors and various materials including paper, fabric and
wool. Many of the children chose to stick their cut materials onto semi-circles
for bird nests and used mud (brown coloured glue) to hold it all together.
“I’m making a beautiful nest” said Oliver, “it’s got a bird and
eggs.”
“Birds need sticks for nests” pointed out Pauline.
The children were fascinated by a preserved magpie that we were
looking at and discussed how it may have died.
“’Cos he can’t fly” thought Pauline.
“Maybe he catapulted from a pigeon… maybe he sick” suggested Hugo
Sen.
“No, he not sick he died” said Pauline.
This week we have also begun to look at ocean environments
following Kristian’s show and tell of a sea collection. If you have any
interesting related items we would love to see them for show and tell next
week.
Kind regards,
Ali and Coral