Hi Cooper Families,
Wow, what a week we have had in the classroom this week. The children have been
busy engaging in a range of new experiences in the classroom. The clay table
has been very popular this week with many children engaging in this sensory and
fine motor experience. As the children pinch and push the clay with their
fingers, they are building their fine motors skills, which is very important
for developing their early literacy skills. Over the week we have collected a
range of natural materials to add to the children’s creations.
We have been using crayons
and water colours at the small painting easels this week. The children have
created amazing beautiful and colourful pictures this week. I hope that
you have enjoyed all of the wonderful paintings coming home each day. The
children have been very proud of their pictures and are very keen to show them
to their families.
As many of you know, the
Cooper room have been keen builders over the past few weeks. To extend their
small and large block constructions we have added other loose parts such as
bottle caps, unifix cubes and natural materials. Since we have added these
materials, the children’s buildings have been even more elaborate and detailed.
Through our building
experiences we have been discussing the shapes that we are using in our
constructions. We found that we have mostly used squares, rectangles and
triangles in our buildings. From this, we have added a range of 2D shapes to
our light table, which the children have been keenly constructing various
buildings while confidently identifying the shapes that they have used.
We hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
Love
Miss Gilbert and Miss C
