Maths Activities at The Wigwam We’ve been busy with more maths activities at The Wigwam! Activities have included: Counting with stones and matching numbers. Drawing round shapes Opening padlocks with keys All these activities are supporting children’s early maths, understanding of number, positioning, shape recognition, adding, subtracting, sorting and problem solving. While we’re here, we … Continued
Combining sensory play and children’s interests enables a huge opportunity for language and personal and social development. Lots of exploration for our young babies today…
Our staff today have set up a lovely mark making activity. Mark making and early writing isn’t always about paper and pens. Marks in sand, salt and dough with a range of resources support the opportunity for developing the fine motor skills required to hold a pencil for writing.
Anyone for tea? By using authentic resources in the nursery children learn how to treat real objects and take care of them. They are able to feel the weight and the range of material of the resources as well as how to use them to extend their play and imagination.
We have been encouraging counting and sorting today with natural materials and loose parts. Not only does this support progression of the children’s mathematical skills but with the mix of resources – communication, language and social development are supported.
The weather has had a definite autumnal feel today and this was reflected in the activities that staff set out for the children. They enjoyed exploring the materials, making new shapes with the pegs and feeling the smooth stones.
Staff in Deers reviewed the children’s space and play opportunities and felt that a change would provide more benefits for self selection, self regulation, choice and exploration. The response from the children who were eager to see their new room was “wow, it looks amazing”. We think it does too!
If you’re not a big fan of messy play at home, we’ve got it covered!
Early Years Maths Ideas We’ve posted before about early years maths ideas at The Wigwam and it’s a topic we’re passionate about! Maths is all around us; we don’t have a maths area as we help children explore and learn through all areas of play. Maths is one of the specific areas in the Early … Continued
We’ve had a fantastic day exploring play dough today. By using vanilla scented play dough we created an all round sensory experience. Using natural materials found outside made this activity even more curious and exciting! Making patterns with pine cones was a big hit with the children! It was great fun squishing and poking the … Continued