This week we are reading Monkey Puzzle’. The children have really enjoyed the challenge of having to find the missing pieces and placing them correctly to the animal puzzle.
Playing with these puzzles encourages children to look at pictures more carefully, going over them from top to bottom and from left to right. Through doing this, children may begin to notice visual similarities and differences.
Puzzles develop memory skills, as well as an ability to plan, test ideas and solve problems. While completing a puzzle, children need to remember shapes, colours, positions and strategies to complete them.
For phonics we played a guessing game, the children were asked to guess the name of the animal, when they heard the sound they make. They did really well to identify the animals and used their hands and feet to show me how the animals look.
We also had a go at drawing a monkey.
- Drawing builds a child’s fine motor skills.
- It develops hand-eye coordination.
- It develops creative expression through free drawing.
- Drawing is the foundation of pre-writing.
- Building a child’s attention span.
- Developing a cognitive understanding of concepts.










