Kits News - 6th October 2023

The children love playing and caring for the dolls and so this week the nursery rhyme Miss Polly had a Dolly was our chosen topic. This provided us with a platform to develop the Kits Communication and Language, social skills and imagination as they sang the song and engaged in play with the dolls.

Our Role Play Area has been set up as ‘St George’s Dolly Ward’ and the children have been busy caring for the dolls by feeding them food, giving them medicine and wrapping them up in blankets before putting them to bed. They have been continuing to practice ‘kind hearts’ and ‘taking turns’ by sharing the dolls with their friends and developing their mine motor skills by learning how to use fastenings as they change their clothes. We have also been discussing our own bedtime routines as we bathed the babies in the messy tray and wrapped them in towels afterwards to dry them off. 

In our Art project this week we embraced the children’s love of DT and gluing and sticking different materials as we made beds with dolls in. We began by sticking wool and googly eyes to ping-ping balls to make a doll’s head and then we painted cardboard boxes and added material on top to make beds. The children were very excited when they placed their dolls in their beds and we talked about our own beds at home.

In Science we discussed how sound travels and made our own yogurt pot telephones with string to develop our understanding further. The children had to use their best listening ears and indoor voices as they held the pots up to their ears and listened to what their friends had to say. It was great fun and they were so excited when they could hear their friends and teachers voices in the pots!

The highlight of the week however was our pyjama party. All the children and staff dressed up in their pyjamas and brought their dolls and soft toys into the nursery. We all re-enacted the story as we snuggled under blankets with our dolls and sang the song with our friends and teachers.