Our book of the week is Elmer by David Mckee. This story is about an elephant who is different to all the others as he is patchwork! We spoke about what colour elephants are usually and compared them to Elmer. Some children learnt the word "grey" and they all learnt the word "patchwork." We also used the words colourful, bright and "like a rainbow" to describe Elmer. Our discussions related this to the theme of anti-bullying week as we learnt that it is okay to be different and we are all still friends. Some of our provision activities this week include: Working together to build a jungle home for Elmer and his wild animal friends. The children used our wooden blocks to build different enclosures and then added grass, mud, trees etc using our natural resource. They used their imaginations to make up stories using our small world jungle animals. Creating our own colourful patterned elephants by sticking different materials to an elephant outline in the creative area. Using our mark making skills to add colourful patterns to an elephant. We have been learning to hold our pen or pencil in a tripod grip and control it to make different marks, shapes and patterns. Using cutters to create wild animals in the playdough area. We used our fine motor skills to carefully roll the dough and then press the cutter into the dough to make the animal shape. Using popoids to build different animals in the construction area, We used our fine motor skills and strength to push the parts together and were creative in making each one unique. Exploring how to mix grey in our painting area so we could paint elephants.
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