We are finishing our journey into Magical Storyland with a focus on the story of Little Red Riding Hood this week. Today we shared the story and the children joined in with the repeated refrains as the story progressed- "What big eyes you have!" "All the better to hear you with my dear!" Some children used these phrases as they acted out the story with our puppets and props in the small world area.
In the play dough area, we have chocolate dough and the children have been following a recipe to make chocolate cakes to take to Granny and we have enhanced our water area with a tea set and scented tea bags so the children can learn to make tea and pretend to serve it to Granny. We are using cotton buds to paint with this week and the children have produced some super painting so far showing great fine motor skills!
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Lots of number fun was had in nursery today and there was so much talk about numbers and counting. The children were all invited to wear a number or numbers and some had made their own number outfit! We had number songs playing as the children entered nursery and we counted the children as we did the register. Each child was given a cube and we built a tower to represent the children who were three years old and then the children who were four years old. We compared the towers and talked about which was the most and which was less or fewer. After this, we went on a coin hunt around nursery. We had hidden 1p and 2p coins all over for the children to find and sort into 1p or 2p bowls. We found out that the 1p coin was smaller and the 2p coin was bigger in size and we also learnt to look for the number on the coin. Once we had found and sorted them all, we returned to the carpet to count how many of each we had found. We learnt that it is easier to count them if they are lined up and we pointed to each coin carefully as we said the numbers. Finally, we worked together to make a coin tower and find out which was the tallest! When the children were busy in the provision, we had lots of number opportunities too! We enjoyed playing a number fishing game and a number hook a duck game. We also hunted for numbered pebbles in the sand and caught numbered ducks in the water tray. In the dough, we had a challenge to make the right number of candles for the birthday cakes. We also had a go at writing numbers in our mark making area.
Finally, we finished the day by watching Numberjacks together. What a busy day with so much Maths learning! As we are learning about the rhyme Incy Wincy Spider this week, we have enhanced our provision linked to this theme, Our activities include:
-books and puppets of the rhyme to support children singing the rhyme with instruments in our music area. -story and non-fiction books about spiders and other minibeasts. -toy minibeasts added to our small world area with the children to create a minibeast garden. -spiders, drainpipes and watering cans in our water area so they can re-enact the rhyme as they play. -black playdough with pipe cleaners and googly eyes in the dough area. -a focused activity to mix our own paint and try to create our own spider. We are focusing our learning this week around the rhyme "Incy Wincy Spider." At group time today, we practised singing the song in different ways and we used our claves to tap out the beat as we sang, We sang the rhyme loud and quiet and we also tried to sing it fast and slow. We then learnt an alternative version of Incy Wincy Spider climbing up a tree and we learnt some Makaton signs to accompany our singing. Here are some photos of us in action:
On our welly walk today, we continued with our learning about shapes. We collected sticks of different lengths from all over the nature reserve and then we had a challenge to see what shapes we could make. There was so much Mathematical learning in this activity. The children talked about the names of their shapes and problem solved how to make them. Some children worked out that to make a triangle, they needed three sticks as a triangle has three sides. Some children were challenged to make bigger shapes and they had to work out that they could put sticks together to make them bigger. What a lot of learning- well done, Shooting Stars!
For our "Feel Good Friday" activity today, we danced to the Tumble Tots. There were lots of different moves to practise to develop our physical skills and we changed our moves to match the music.
We love our dough disco in the Shooting Stars and we have made so much progress with developing the strength in our hands and fingers! We have all learnt to take our own lid off our pot of dough which was challenging at first but we have persevered and developed the strength to pull it up with our fingers. Each time, we practise squeezing our dough really hard using one hand and then the other one using the words- squish, squash, squeeze! Then we make a pancake by flattening our dough. We hold it in one hand and splat it with the palm of our other hand to make it really flat. Then we make our fingers dance- pushing each finger in one at a time. This is quite tricky but we are trying really hard and our fingers are getting stronger every day. Finally we roll a ball and then a sausage by rolling the dough between the palm of our hands.
In our painting area, we have been learning to mix colours using powder paints. The children have learnt to wet their brush and then mix the colours in their palette, remembering to wash their brush in between each colour. The children were fascinated by the different colours they have mixed and some children are able to recall how to mix some eg "red and yellow make orange." They have also learnt to wash up their own palette and leave it clean for the next person to use. We have some amazing artists in our nursery!
Today we have had a focused activity to try to paint the troll from our story of the week. Our new story this week is "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." We have been reading and re-reading the story and the children are getting really good at joining in with the repeated phrases- "Who's that trip-trapping over MY bridge|?" and "trip-trap, trip-trap." In our construction area, we have been using the wooden blocks to build different bridges and there has been lots of Mathematical language such as long, short, tall, big, high, low. We have also been using puppets of the characters to act out the story using the bridges the we have built. The children have been developing their understanding of the words "under" and "over" as the troll lived under the bridge and the goats went over it. We also have a new construction kit which the children have been learning to fasten together in different ways. In the play dough area, we have some mats related to the story and the children have been learning to shape their dough to make the different items.
The Shooting Stars made chocolate shredded wheat buns today linked to our story of The Three Little Pigs. Firstly they had the tricky job of breaking up the shredded wheat with a spoon which was great for developing their motor skills. Then they talked about how they could mix the chocolate and some children knew it needed to be melted first. They learnt that it needed to be heated in the microwave and used words such as hard and runny to describe how it changed. They carefully mixed the melted chocolate with the shredded wheat and spooned it into their bun case. Finally they added a pig sweet on top.
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