This week the children have had lots of fun learning and reciting some of our favourite nursery rhymes. The boys and girls have enjoyed singing and chanting the rhymes to one another, sequencing pictures to match the rhyme and trying to spot deliberate mistakes given by the adults.

We have introduced some ‘book buddies’ to the library corner for the children to read stories to. These soft toys have been extremely popular and it has been lovely to see the children engaging with texts independently, looking at the pictures to tell their own story.

The children took great care of our babies this week giving them bubble baths, washing and hanging their clothes up to dry and dressing them. It was great to see the boys and girls working with each other to fasten the buttons on the clothes and share their experiences of bathtime in their own homes.

The creative table was busy with little bodies all eager to cut, design and stick patterns on to paper plates.

We have been constructing different types of buildings this week and using small loose parts to make our structures more elaborate and detailed. The children have used books and photographs as prompts to construct their models. The girls made a chicken farm using bottle lids and pine cones as eggs. We have also been looking at drawing our buildings before starting to make a plan.

This week in the garden the children have been creating an ice cream shop; they used mould-able foam for their creations and explored using real money within their role play to pay for the ice creams.

This was then continued as they made a train from the large loose parts to take the customers home and used their mark-making skills to create tickets.

The children have shown an interest in treasure whilst playing in the indoor sand pit so decided to go on a treasure hunt. The boys and girls took turns to hide objects and then raced to see who could find them the quickest. Once all the treasure had been discovered we used number boards to help sort and count the treasure found. We worked on identifying the numerals and touch counting.

The boys and girls made some tasty pizzas for snack demonstrating how to spread the sauce and carefully grate the cheese to sprinkle on. They were able to select their own toppings and chatted about what the ingredients felt like as they picked them up.

We look forward to lots more fun with our friends next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Denholm