We brought our ‘Spring’ topic to an end last week.  Following on from our daffodil observational painting, we took our clipboards and paint pallets outside to paint the blossom trees at the bottom of the playground.  The children demonstrated great concentration and attention to detail; we now have a beautiful wall of paintings in the Nursery that the children are proud of.

We are now well underway with our ‘On Safari in Africa’ topic.  We have looked at Africa on the globe and we have been learning to identify lots of different safari animals.  The small world safari park is a big hit!  We have also watched some very interesting clips, watching how different animals move – we’ve focussed on giraffe’s, elephants and hippos so far.

Mrs McLatchie and the children have created a camouflaged safari jeep, with everybody’s faces inside ready to look for animals! We have also made collage lions and cheetahs and giraffes and zebras using our own footprints!

There have been some super towers being built with the foam blocks this week taking real concentration and team work which is lovely to see. There has also been some very delicate and careful work while making patterns with the peg boards.  We have been learning about sounds, particularly the initial sounds in words; playing alphabet lotto and with the alphabet boxes.

Some of the boys and girls baked banana cupcakes for our snack on Tuesday. We ate them altogether on the mat, like an indoor picnic, they were delicious!