Dear Mattingley Families and Friends,
This week in the Mattingley room
we have been exploring the sensation of touch. The children enjoyed playing
with slime, shaving cream and paint bags that were out for them to feel.
Miss Ruggiero: How does the shaving cream feel?
Hudson - Soft
Ruby - Good. It feels not cold. It’s nice and warm.
Mack - It’s sticky
Elsa - It feels slobbery
Nathan -Cold and it feels hard.
Miss Ruggiero - What does the slime feel like?
Clementine - Playdough
Hudson - It looks like playdough but it’s not. It’s
slime.
Ruby - Wow it’s very cold. It’s slime. Super dooper slimey.
Angus - It’s soft
Alannah - It’s so
stretchy.
Sofia - It’s cold. It’s
stretchy. It’s jiggly.
Lola - It’s so
sticky.
Ari - It’s sticky.
As the children have
been exploring these materials it has been great to see them using an array of
fine motor skills as they poked, squeezed and manipulated the slime, paint
and shaving cream. Some of the children used their fingers to write their
names or make marks in the shaving cream and paint bags. It was fantastic to
hear a range of descriptive language being used when we asked
them to tell us what it felt like. We will continue to utilise
materials such as slime as a way for the children to work on their
fine motor skills that will help them with an array of day to day tasks
that require the use of these skills such as writing and cutting.
You may
have noticed that we have placed a projector in our classroom. The children
have been using a range of objects as well as their hands and bodies to make shadows
against a wall. We were inspired to do this as we overheard children
commenting on their shadows as we walked up to the library this week. Some
of the children were sharing their ideas on why there were shadows and what
created them. We are looking forward to exploring the topic of shadows
with the children.
Have a
great weekend,
Cass and Liana
