Nursery Blog

We have had a busy week in Nursery. The children have been using positional language and following instructions to place people in different parts of a caravan. We have been finding out about Hot Air Balloons and lots of the children could explain they needed fire to work and that this helped them go upwards. We have been making Hot Air Balloons with papier mache, but just need to add the baskets. We had a fun time at Woodlands, testing cars on different surfaces and finding leaves with different numbers of parts. The children did really well recording how many parts the leaves had and used numbers or spots to show how many there were. These children have shown excellent characteristics of learning this week. Blake was like Bee and was good at deciding how to make a bridge for the car in Woodlands. Emily tested her ideas like Fox by testing the cars on different surfaces at Woodlands. Ryan had a go like Blue Tit and recorded his ideas using a whiteboard. Ethan concentrated really

This week we have been learning about trains. We have been very impressed with how the children have approached making a train using the junk modelling. We have seen lots of characteristics of learning linked to the animals in our learning wood; concentrating, planning and ideas. It was great to see how the children used their knowledge of shape to find objects to make their trains. In Maths we have been learning how a total stays the same when none of the objects are added or taken away. We used trains and put the small people into the carriages. We have been enjoying our school role play and pretending to be teachers. The children have really been able to take on a role and have been doing great impressions of us!!! We started our May Dance in P.E., dancing to 'Daisy, Daisy'. The children all joined in and thought of some moves for the dance. We will be continuing this for our P.E. sessions over the next few weeks. It was lovely that so many of you were able to join