The children thoroughly enjoyed being out in the sunshine hunting for minibeasts. Equiped with magnifying glasses and our checklists, we searched the school environment, looking for insects and minibeasts featured in the story Superworm by Julia Donalson. Hunting in forest school, the vegetable patch and the flower beds, we were lucky enough to find spiders, snails, ladybirds, and many more.
Thank you to all the children that participated in our annual Easter Bonnet Parade. It was lovely to see all the children wearing their bonnets for our competition.
It's clear to see that they have thoroughly enjoyed making them at home, and thank you to all the parents for your support.
During our Jigsaw lesson for PSHE, we learnt about the importance of keeping our hands clean.
Mrs Beardmore had been digging in the garden and had dirt all over her hands!
We focused on the importance of always washing our hands properly with soap after using the toilet and always before we have our morning snacks. We want to keep ourselves and our friends and teachers safe.
The children have been using The Very Hungry Caterpillar story as a basis for our Maths focus this week. The children have expanded on their knowledge of length. Using a variety of resources, we've made caterpillars that are long and short, some have been longer, some have been shorter. We then compared them to see which is the longest and the shortest, and questioned, how do we know which one is longer or shorter?
Spring is here, and the children have been observing the changes in the seasons and how the environment around them is changing. We went for a spring walk, looking at the buds on the trees, the blossom, and the daffodils. It's lovely to be out in the sunshine.
Our garden needed tending to, so we've been out getting our hands dirty, removing the weeds, and sowing some new seeds for some spring flowers, herbs and vegetables.
We've looked closely at the daffodils growing in our garden, identifying the petals, the trumpet and the stems.
This week, it has been lovely to invite the children's parents into nursery, to experience what it is that the children do during their time with us.
We explored the different ways of developing our fine motor skills, with dough disco, threading and construction, marking making in shaving foam, pasta and flour, and practised recognising and writing our names.
The children demonstrated to their parents how we do dough disco, so that they can practice at home as well.
Use the QR codes below to follow the 'crocodile snap' finger exercises, and dough disco routines.
Our traditional tale this week is The Gingerbread Man. We've enjoyed joining in with telling the story, and of course, we've baked our own. It was lots of fun, combining all of the ingredients, using our hands to make a dough, rolling it out, and using cutters to create our own gingerbread person. Mrs Beardmore carefully put them into the oven, and we couldn't wait to eat them. They were delicious!
The children have loved having their own building sit in nursery this week. Trying to build a house of bricks that the wolf can't blow down.
We looked at all the different materials that the pigs tried to use to build a house with, straw, sticks and bricks. Which will be the strongest?
The big bad wolf huffs and puffs to blow the houses down, so we 'huffed and puffed' when bubble painting, and we've been junk modelling, making our own houses for the pigs, using cardboard boxes and lots of sticky glue!
The children have enjoyed going on a shape hunt this week. We've been exploring our school, trying to find squares and rectangles. We found lots in the playground, inside school and in our classroom. Our magic number has been 4, as we've learnt that squares and rectangles both have 4 sides and 4 corners.
Using shapes, we've been very creative. We printed with paint and used glue and coloured paper.
This week we've been inspired by all the wonderful colours of Elmer the Elephant. The children have enjoyed making their own colourful stained glass Elmers using tissue paper on laminates. They do look lovely as the sun shines through them.
Our focus in Maths this week has been numeral 4. Miss Phillips read us the story about Pete and his 4 groovy buttons, and we cut out Pete's button and stuck them onto his jacket.
This year is the year of the snake.
The children enjoyed listening to the story of the Jade Emperer and how he got the 12 animals of the zodiac to race to have a year named after them.
We made Chinese lanterns and had a go at painting some of the animals from the story.
This week we continued with our theme of animals, and enjoyed reading Dear Zoo. We've enjoyed using the stereo to listen and identify animal sounds, and developed our cutting skills creating collied snakes.
Jigsaw Jennie visited this week, and we discussed dreams and goals. Setting ourselves challenges, which we may find a bit tricky at times, but we must always try to persevere, and keep trying our best. The children were set the challenge of who can build the tallest tower.