What a change to the weather this week. We started the week with a very windy day and a mystery that the children needed to investigate. OUR TENT WAS MISSING!
The children noticed on Tuesday morning that the tent had disappeared. We decided to find out what had happened and made a list of where they thought it might be. Zac thought the tent had gone to the seaside and Leo thought it had gone to Australia. Olivia said that the wind had blown it to Gobians Forest. We decided to go for a walk around the grounds to see if we could find it.
Suddenly they noticed something blue flapping in the wind.
Miss Chandler untied it from the fence. The wind was very strong.
It blew all the children over, even Miss Chandler. We were all very happy that we had found our tent.
This was such an exciting day with so many learning opportunities. The children were completely absorbed in the excitement. In Early Years we always try to plan activities around the children's interests. When something so simple as a windy day arrives we all get very excited.
This allowed us to create stories, paintings, drawing and most of all it allowed the children to think creatively and problem solve.
We used a story map to sequence the events of the day and this encouraged the children to start writing and coming up with their own ideas.
I wonder what the weather will bring us next week????????
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Robinson
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