Today for our cooking activity, we made vegetable soup to link in with our theme of Harvest. The children all had a go at chopping the different vegetables to go into the soup. They learnt how to use a knife safely to chop. Once the soup was cooked, everyone had a taste. Some children thought it was delicious but others were not so keen! Ask your child if they liked it or not.
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This week the children in nursery are learning about Harvest Time. We have been talking about saying thank you for our fruit and vegetables and have also been singing songs to help us to remember this.
In the creative area, the children have been dipping cut fruit and vegetables into paint to print their own pictures. Some children have also enjoyed talking about the seeds and what they could see inside the different fruit and vegetables. Our role play area is a fruit and vegetable shop. The children have had the opportunity to role play being the customer and shopkeeper, pretending to buy and sell the different produce. It has been lovely to see the children playing together, developing their speaking and turn taking skills. See if your child can remember and tell you about any of our learning. Today we enjoyed a full session of outdoor learning in the nature reserve. When we arrived, we discovered that all the shape tiles from our classroom had been scattered all over the woods! The children enjoyed searching high and low to find all the different shapes.. When they found one, they put it under the shelter and we sorted them into groups of circles, triangles, rectangles or squares. Once they were all found, we counted how many of each shape we had found and we discovered that the most was the squares as that was the biggest number.
The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring and discovering all the hidden shapes and it was a great way for them to reinforce their learning about the shape names from over the week. Fantastic learning, Shooting Stars! Today we have baked shape biscuits to link in with our theme of shapes. Some children helped by following the recipe to carefully weigh and mix the ingredients. Then all the children had a go at rolling and cutting the dough to make their own biscuit. See if your child can tell you what shape biscuit they made. Nursery smelt delicious as they were cooking, I hope they tasted as nice as they smelt!
This week in nursery, our learning has focused around the theme of shapes. At group time, we have used wooden blocks to build models and tried to talk about them using shape language such as round, tall, circle, square, triangle, rectangle. We have also been singing shape songs to help us to learn their names and drawing shapes in the air with our fingers.
We have also been creative using shapes. We printed shape pictures using paint and different shapes and we have also made shape pictures by sticking shapes onto paper. See if your child can spot any shapes in the environment around your house or when you are walking out and about. They will soon learn that shapes can be found everywhere! There have been lots of creative opportunities this week as we have created our own version of Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall. Firstly all the children used different materials to make their own brick for the wall. Then we worked as a team to paint Humpty using different brushes and sponge rollers. Finally the children collaged his trousers and facial features.
It was lovely to see the children's faces when they saw their Humpty Dumpty on our class display on Friday. My favourite comment was "It's Humpty Dumpty. He is my friend" from a child who didn't know Humpty Dumpty at the beginning of the week. Super learning, Shooting Stars! As well as singing the rhyme this week, we have also been creative while making our own sparkly stars. The children used different textured materials to stick onto a star shape and used words such as shiny, gold, yellow and sparkly to describe it.
Here is a photo of our class display of the rhyme: This week in nursery, we have focused our learning around the nursery rhymes Humpty Dumpty and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Being able to recite lots of nursery rhymes is such an important pre-reading skill.
The younger children have been learning to sing the rhymes and fill in the missing rhyming words when I pause singing. The older children have been learning to hear rhyming words through filling in the missing words in different versions such as "Humpty Dumpty sat on a chair, Humpty Dumpty combed his...…." They have also been making silly soup using rhyming words including cat, mat, rat, hat and dog, log and frog. All of us have enjoyed singing rhymes and playing our musical instruments to accompany the words. In the nature reserve today, the children enjoyed mark making on the paths using large chalks. Some children chalked their names, letters, numbers and shapes while others were great at chalking circles and lines. This was a great activity to develop our motor skills needed for writing. Great job, Shooting Stars!
For our baking activity today, we melted chocolate and then spread it on top of a bun. We then added sprinkles to the top before waiting for the chocolate to set.
I hope you enjoyed eating your bun. |
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