Storytelling, yoga and making a bonfire

Storytelling

This week in Tawny Owls we are focusing on Literacy with a theme of story telling! Our children have been enjoying a selection of sensory trays linking with some of our favourite stories in Tawny Owls. We have explored a ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ pasta tray and a ‘Never Touch a Polar Bear’ snow tray too. The children have used their fingers and hands to create various marks in the flour tray, they have liked moving the polar bears around too and looking at the Never Touch a Polar Bear story. Lovely playing Tawny Owls

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Yoga!

This morning in Tawny Owls scarning we have been doing some Yoga. Yoga is part of our continuous provision here at Little Owls and our children are familiar with many of the poses.
The children found our yoga book and brought this to one of the practitioners. We then got our special yoga mats and set them out ready. The practitioner then read the story and in each page we had a pose to do.

Our children did the cow pose, the star pose and the snake pose. All of the children did the poses with some help from a practitioner.

All of the children listened to the yoga story all of the way through. Well done Tawny Owls

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Making a bonfire!

Yesterday in Barn owls Scarning, as part of outdoor play a group of the children decided to make their own bonfire using logs and various other items they could find around the garden. To further this activity we decided to take the children to the grass garden to do a real bonfire on the fire pit.
As part of this activity we talked to the children all about risk assessment around fires and other hazards that we might come across in the garden. With some prompt questions such as “what does risk mean?” “Do we run around the fire?” “Do we eat anything in the garden?”, This sparked a lot of communication from the children saying “you might get burnt”, “I have a fire at home”, “no we might get sick”.
After the talk about the risk, we then read the children a story called Little owl, with the children enjoying joining with the actions directed by the book. Once the children had finished their story, they were then giving risk assessment forms, so they could go around the garden looking for different risks and noting them down on their sheets. This is a way to encourage early mark making, to lead onto forming letters.