Splashing Paint Like Jackson Pollock
Splashing Paint Like Jackson Pollock
After exploring music and learning all about orchestral instruments, we then extended our creative learning through art. We learnt all about the artist Jackson Pollock and discovered that he liked to dance while he painted listening to jazz music.
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Musically Messy Creative Collaboration
Professional Flautist Visit
This was part of our term's immersive, sensory music and art topic - our 'Musically Messy Creative Collaboration. This project brought together all our families and the wider community (Tesco, ScrewFix, local garages and builder merchants) to emphasise the importance of messy play in early childhood. One of our Mummies is a professional flautist and has played in orchestra's all around the world. She came into Nursery to share her passion for music and helped us learn all about woodwind instruments.
Exploring Woodwind
We began our learning with the book 'Meet the Orchestra' by Ann Haynes and we explored the 4 orchestral families. To help us find out more about the different woodwind instruments, we were lucky to be able to hear, see and try a clarinet, flute and a saxophone. One of our teacher's grown up daughter came to play her saxophone for us.
Playground Orchestra
We used our imaginations to build a stage for our own orchestra. Once it was ready we became the musicians and the audience!
Exploring Movement and Rhythm through art and music
Outdoor Kitchen Music Wall
Lunch Time Violin Concert
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Learning Outside the Classroom
Duckling Project - Learning Outside the Classroom
Find out how Nursery's small holding increased in size! The children fell so in love with the ducklings, that they wanted to keep them. However, they had to work out what we might need, where they might live and whether we could afford them.
Traditional Tales - Learning Outside the Classroom
Story telling and imaginative play in our local park
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Monet and his Garden
Monet and his Garden
After admiring Monet's cloud paintings when we were learning about space, we wanted to find out even more about how and what he painted. We developed our language skills by using our new knowledge to teach our families how to paint like Claude Monet. Here is some of what we discovered.
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What is the moon? And more......!
The Moon
When it snowed the children were fascinated by the Usborne book 'What is snow?'. They were really intrigued to learn how it was formed. To develop this blossoming scientific interest, we began our Spring term asking 'What is....?' using Usborne's science series to help us. The first question we explored was 'What is the moon?'. This is what we found out.
What are stars?
Who liked painting the moon and stars?
We then linked our scientific exploration to art and discovered that artists like to record what they see through their work.
What are clouds?
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Bowerdean Loves Art and We're Not Sorry!
1. Circle
Our project all started with 1 small black circle and her friends, Triangle and Square.
2. Yayoi Kusama
After learning all about the properties of a circle, we discovered artists love circles too. We fell in love with a very special lady, who covered everything in dots and wasn't sorry!
3. Infinity and Beyond!
Yayoi Kusama also liked to explore infinity, using mirrors and her beloved spots We did the same and learned all about reflections and of course, infinity!
4. Square
The second story in our shape trilogy was all about Square. He was a sculptor, like Yayoi and a genius - just like us!
5. Triangle
The final book in our shape trilogy helped us explore how shapes fit together. We also loved the sneaky tricks the shapes played on each other.
6. Wassily Kandinsky
We learnt all about Kandinsky, an artist who liked all types of shapes. He also had a very special paint box that made sounds when he mixed colours.
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Music
Communicating Through Sound
We have really enjoyed participating in a local research project to explore the impact of multi-sensory music sessions to develop communication and language skills, particularly for children with additional needs. The project had such a positive impact on staff and children that we have introduced many of aspects into our daily learning experiences. For further information about the project, please click on the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning' tab on our website.
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Maths
Super Subitising
Subitising. What on earth is that? Well, we are now experts and this short video will show you! Essentially, it is the ability to recognise immediately (from the Latin 'subito' meaning straight away) the number of objects in a group. We do this everyday at Nursery during registration by looking at how many children are absent and we've been developing our skills further at every opportunity. https://www.hertsforlearning.co.uk/blog/whats-all-talk-about-subitising-why-it-essential-foundation-counting