This week in Nursery we have been learning about caterpillars and reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We even have some of our own hungry caterpillars in the classroom which we are watching grow over the next few weeks. After reading the story we talked about the different foods he ate on each day of the week. Then we have been challenging ourselves to listening to and having a go at writing the sound we can hear for the different foods. We have also been re-telling the story using our small world area and using the different props from the story. Then in maths we have been practising our number recognition by finding a number 1-10 and counting out the correct amount of food from the story and then matching it up with the correct Numicon shape.

This week in Nursery we have been continuing to think about our key question ‘How does your garden grow?’ and this week we have read the story ‘The Tiny Seed’. We have been learning all about how seeds grow, what they need to grow and we have even had a go at planting our own sunflowers. In maths we have been counting out seeds into our numicon shapes and we have also been getting creative by printing flowers using different coloured paints.

For the last 2 weeks we have had some special members in Roebuck nursery. On Wednesday morning we came in to find out some chicks had hatched in the eggs we had been incubating. It has been very exciting and we have even had the chance to hold them. We have been taking part in lots of chick activities. For example learning about the lifecycle of a chicken, we have made chicks using different creative resources and we have been counting out the correct number of chicks. 

This week in Nursery we have been thinking about people who help us. This week our focus has been the police. We have found out what the police do and how they keep us safe. We have been drawing and labelling police officers and investigating our fingerprints using powder paint. We have changed our role play area into a police station and the children have enjoyed acting as police. 

In Nursery the children have been busy learning all about Winter and thinking about how the weather changes. We have been exploring ice, thinking about how ice is made and how we can melt the ice. 

The children in Nursery wanted to make a snowman, however, we have not had enough snow for this. We decided to make our own snowmen out of biscuits. We used digestive biscuits, lots of runny icing and marshmallows to help make our snowman faces. The children had lots of fun and they were delicious!

Nursery have had an exciting first week back after half term. We have been busy learning all about fireworks and celebrations. We have been watching and listening to fireworks and describing what they sound like. The children have been making fireworks using different materials, making marks in coloured sand and they have been using chalk and paint to make firework pictures.