this week have been exploring floating and sinking, where the children predicting what the object would do. We also explored the meaning of floating and sinking and using a variety of mathematical language when exploring the objects.

we explored the concept of symmetry when painting some butterflies. We also learned about the life cycle of the caterpillar where we drew and sequenced the different stages in the correct order.

Our lovely daffodils started to open so we decided to paint them  while in the garden using paint.

Some of the children have been investigating the life cycle of  the butterfly . They have read the hungry caterpillar and have been busy creating their own caterpillars….

Some of the children were listening to directional instructions up, down , side to side during parachute games.

First visit to the woods for the Birch Room.

Children were risk assessing the area and learning to manage their own safety at the woods, they enjoyed exploring the natural environment. Children liked having their snack of hot chocolate and sandwiches outdoors.

For world book day the children were exploring ‘The Tiger How Came To Tea.  The children decided they wanted to have a tea party, they decorated party hats and wrote invitations inviting a few ladies from the nursery.

While making invitations for our tea party  children  were developing their mark making skills and pencil control.

This week in the birch room we have been developing our attention and listening skills through games with musical instruments, we listened carefully to the beat then copied it and also enjoyed singing songs while making lots of noise with them.

We listened during circle time and was exploring and talking about different emotions.

we made some musical shakers to use during ore song time and to help sound out syllables in our name and other familiar words

we explored some jelli baff and were using some good descriptive words “it’s gooey” “it’s cold” “it feel funny” “it’s like slime”

This week the turtles and peacocks made some shortbread for everyone, we followed instructions and developed our hand eye co-ordination while baking.

Re-telling familiar stories, this week we were exploring The three little pigs and Goldilocks and the three bears. We added some props to the home corner and played with some wooden figures to act out what happened in the stories.

We had a lovely bookbug session where we read a story all about emotions and enjoyed joining in with our songs.

In the tuff tray we had some metal teapots with tea cups where we explored filling and emptying. Where we spoke about some fancy tea parties with our lovely fancy hats.

What a busy week we have had . Some of the children have been exploring capacity while playing in the water filling and emptying water into different size containers and cups etc. They have been using good mathematical language.  “It’s full”, “ it’s empty.

Some of the children have been predicting what would happen  to parachute when the wind catches it.

Some of the children have been learning all about Chinese New Year. This is also called a Lunar New Year,  its the year of the Tiger.

The children have been creating their own Chinese dragon, lanterns  and money wallets.

This week we were celebrating Burns day. We had a variety of activities. We had fun make tartan prints, trying some shortbread and dancing to Scottish dancing.