This week, as part of our festivals mini-topic, we will be trying different foods that are sometimes enjoyed during different festivals. Today we tried mango chutney and poppadoms. Most of us were eager to try both foods! Look out for uploads on food tasting on the ILDs next week.
We made delicious hot, pumpkin soup today, We had to use kitchen tools safely and had to follow hygiene rules to ensure our soup was safe to eat. We can’t wait to try it tomorrow.
We will be having a small party on Monday as part of our festivities topic. All children are welcome to dress up for nursery.
We are using natural autumn resources in our play. We would be grateful if parents and children could collect more of these natural resources and bring them to nursery. We are particularly interested in getting conkers, acorns and leaves of different sizes and colours. Thank you.
We will be learning about different festivals and celebrations over the next few weeks. We plan to celebrate Diwali, Halloween and Bonfire night. The focus in these topics will be to develop our understanding of different cultures. We will also be exploring a range of foods during our festivals topic to extend our awareness. Please see the festivals plan in the planning folder.
A large group of us continue to be very interested in transport. This week we have been learning to use remote control cars. We are developing our skills in using positional maths language such as forward, backwards, turn, up and down as we steer them around nursery. Some of us are even trying to use the words ‘left’ and ‘right’ albeit sometimes incorrectly. 🙂 We have also been using the large cars to extend our imaginative play.
We have been very interested in the autumn changes that have been taking place outside. We will be focusing on these autumn changes during the next few weeks – please see the autumn plan in the planning folder and on the planning wall.
Yesterday we went on an autumn walk to hunt for autumn changes. We were particularly interested in the leaves and had fun throwing and collecting them. We were eager to share what we had found with our friends and nursery staff.
This week we have been using google to search for images of things that we are interested in. Cars, rockets and space have been the most popular areas to search for. You can try this at home too. I would recommend checking all images before allowing your children to view them.
Many of the children had suggested that we should have pizzas for snack. This week we made our own healthy pizzas using wholemeal muffins, tomato and basil sauce and a range of fresh, healthy ingredients. They were such a success that we plan to have them every three weeks.
We continue to be very interested in water. This week we have been developing our skills in carrying out simple experiments to determine whether an object floats or sinks. We then tried to sort our objects into the correct floating or sinking baskets – this is a key numeracy skill we are developing.
We are going to build on this next week by trying to build our own boats.
