One of our focused activities this week has been making vehicles in the creative area. We have chosen a vehicle and some materials and used our creative skills to make it. The children have learnt how to attach materials in different ways and some children have found out how to make wheels that actually turn using split pins!
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Today the children have really enjoyed working together to build different vehicles in the outdoor area. They used crates, tyres, boxes and big bricks to build and then they wrote their own tickets so they could role play travelling to different places.
Look at our fantastic teamwork! Welcome back to the final term in nursery- this year has flown!!
Our new theme for learning is "Travelling Out and About" and we will be learning about all different kinds of vehicles through this theme. Our book of the week is "We all go travelling by" which has a lovely repetitive and rhyming structure. We are reading and re-reading the book as well as learning a song version so the children can recite it themselves. We have been learning the Makaton signs for all the different vehicles in the book. Here is a link to the book as a song if you would like to share it with your child at home: We All Go Travelling By (UK) | Barefoot Books Singalong - YouTube Have fun singing and see if your child can join in with the repetitive phrases and the rhyming words. Today we made our own healthy snack- fruit kebabs! We had to carefully thread different fruits onto a skewer which was a great activity for developing our fine motor skills. Once they were ready, we enjoyed eating them for our snack. Some children thought all the fruits were delicious and everyone tried the different types.
Today we were so excited to notice that one of our butterflies had emerged from the chrysalis!! We watched it dry it's wings and begin to fly around in the net. As the session progressed we were lucky enough to see some of the others emerge! By the end of the afternoon, we had five butterflies in our net. We will observe them over the next couple of days and then release them so they can fly away outside.
Today we have been mathematicians! We went around nursery with a clipboard asking our friends and the grown-ups the question "What is your favourite fruit?" We learnt to record a tally mark next to the fruit they chose and then we counted how many children liked each type of fruit and wrote the number. Super Maths, Shooting Stars!
We have done a brilliant job growing our very own bean plants in nursery. The children have learnt about how to plant the seed and how to care for it while it is growing. Lots of them have grown really tall now so today we decided to work in groups to look at our own and compare them with some of our friends. The children used words such as big, huge, tall, little, short, small, taller, bigger, biggest while they were comparing.
Today the children took their bean plants home. We hope they will continue to water and care for them and maybe you will have some beans to cook for dinner! Please let us know how they grow and share your photos with us. This week we have had lots of changes to observe with our caterpillars! Firstly we noticed that they were beginning to hang off the lid and when we watched closely we could see that they were swinging about. Then we noticed that they were all hanging very still and we realised they had formed a cocoon or chrysalis just like in the books we have been reading.
The children have been fascinated watching them and we are now waiting patiently to see the next stage of the life cycle! This week we are reading the story of Oliver's Vegetables and learning how vegetables grow in the ground. We will be talking about healthy choices and the children's favourite vegetables. We will also be finding out about the differences between fruit and vegetables and the children will be sorting them into groups.
We have moved our fruit and vegetable shop inside this week so the children can extend their learning from outdoors last week. In our sensory tray we have some chia seeds for the children to explore. See if your child can tell you what they are enjoying learning the most this week. Today in the nature reserve we have been developing our skills using a bat and ball. We played together and learnt to take turns.
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June 2022
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