This weeks text was ‘Pig in the Pond’. The children have enjoyed exploring floating and sink objects in the water tray. They have also enjoyed washing the farm animals, retelling the story of the ‘Pig in the Pond’. This week the children also got to hold the chicks that have hatched, 5 very healthy boys. They also made their ‘Mother’s Day’ cards, which they were very proud of.

This week we also had our Stay and Play and of course World Book day.

The children really enjoyed the activities and dressing up in their favourite character’s costumes and showing their parents all the things they enjoy doing in nursery.

This week the children have enjoyed activities based around our book ‘The Enormous Turnip’. Some of the activities the children enjoyed were vegetable printing, investigating different vegetable and fruits and sorting them. They have also enjoyed watching the eggs hatch in to chicks and drawing them. They have also enjoyed sing ‘5 Speckled Frogs’ using the prompts in the water tray.

This week the children have been celebrating Chinese New Year by trying Chinese food, creating Chinese lanterns and Chinese dragon prints. Also this week the children got to go and meet all the animals at the Farm on Wheels. Racket the donkey, Cinderella and Captain Drake the ducks. They also got to feed the 1 week old baby lambs who were yet to be named. A mother hen and her 2 chicks and what I think was their favourite part … petting the Guinea pig.

This week we were looking at the  nursery rhyme ‘Farmer in the Dell’. The have been enjoying the new role play of a farm shop. They have also been using their comparison skills when sorting the veg in the sand. The children have also been making their own 2d shape tractors. Using the play dough to create their own vegetables and singing 5 Speckled Frogs in the water tray. The children also enjoyed playing the instruments while sing ‘Farmer in the Dell and Old Mc Donald’.

The last week of our Spring 1 term we looked at the book Zoom Rocket Zoom. The children enjoyed going on a space mission in space shuttle role play. The children also enjoyed making a big rocket outside with the wooden blocks, where we flew to new planets and met aliens. The children also enjoyed the multi-sensory star hunts in the compost and the slime, this was where they were practicing their maths skills. The children also enjoyed making their own junk model rockets.

This week the children looked at the text ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. The enjoyed making their own shape bears, creating the scenes from the text using different materials and practicing their scissor skills. The also enjoyed using the playdough to create characters and scenes from the story. This week they also got to use the construction vehicles in compost digging and creating paths just like real construction workers. The children also celebrate Number day by dressing up with their favourite numbers on.

Last week we looked at the text, ‘Oi Get Off Our Train’. The children used the big wooden blocks to build their own train to ride. They also used their maths knowledge to create a repeating pattern train print. The children also acted out the story with masks using the repeated refrain of, ‘Oi get off our train’, every time a new animal boarded the train. They also tested their construction skills when they had to raise the train track up using blocks.

In week 3 this term we looked at the story, ‘The Great Explorer’. The children made boats from playdough, igloos and practiced their maths skills with the penguins. The children also looked at the globe just like the Great Explorer did before he set off on his journey to rescue his dad. The children also enjoyed using their fine motor skills with giving the snowman his features.

This week the children were looking at the book ‘The Journey’ which is all about a toy boats travels once it has broken free from its string. The children have made boat prints, fish puppets. Caught fish in the water tray and made sand castles in the big sand pit. They have also been exploring how to make plastic ducks move using water and jugs. They also went on a little fishing trip with their boats made for two.