The nursery boys and girls have been enjoying the wonderful weather this week exploring and experimenting with water.
All They’re Doing Is Splashing, Right?
Wrong! Water play fosters learning in all developmental areas. It provides opportunities for children to experiment with math and science concepts, strengthen their physical skills, advance their social and emotional skills, and enhance language development.
Thanks to Mrs Hughes and her garden pond we have some frogs spawn and newly hatched tiny tadpoles in our nursery. They are in Room C (smaller play room). The children are enjoying looking at them daily with magnifying glasses and talking about what they can see and how the tadpoles are changing daily.
Yesterday we made campfires with Ms Connor. First we talked about how to stay safe and discussed what campfire rules we had to follow. (We are learning how to manage risks independently). Next we lit our fire using firelights, sticks and a match. The we cooked popcorn. Ms Connor let us see what the popcorn looked like before it was cooked. When it was cooked we all had some to try. Most of us thought it tasted yummy!!! We can’t wait to do this again
Over the last few week as part of BBC 10 pieces we have been listening to Anna Meredith’s music. She makes music using body percussion. We’ve been making music too by clapping, stamping, clicking and shouting. We watched an orchestra play some of Anna music. Here is a link to another of her pieces. Our sparkle words were a capella (music without instruments), title, audience, body percussion and composer.
The nursery boys and girls have been very busy changing our role play area into a castle for Princesses and knights and dragons.
We are currently reading “Supertato” in nursery as part of our Literacy programme ABC and Beyond. This story is about an “evil” pea who escapes from the freezer one night and is mean to lots of vegetables. He is finally stopped by “Supertato” -a superhero potato. The children have been very busy exploring different activities relating to this story, Vegetable printing at art, setting up a supermarket for roleplay, threading/counting vegetables/fruit, trying different vegetables at snack, going on a pea hunt in the sand tray, catching all the peas, carrots and potatoes in the water tray, learned songs/rhymes and action songs, making models at playdough etc. Each group has also been discussing, explaining, re-inforcing and extending the children knowledge and understanding of the sparkle words: icy, rescue, super & distress during group times. Some of the children made models of “Supertato”.
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