As it is digital learning week we have been exploring the robots at nursery. The children have been working out how they can programme the different robots to follow a route, developing directional and positional language. Most children were able to listen carefully and follow the instructions well to programme the robots. Jotbot and indi sphero cars were a huge favourite this week!
This week in the garden we have been on a bug hunt and done lots of research about the bugs we found using the ipads. The children asked questions such as “what do they eat?”, “‘are they poisonous?” and “what is this one called?” We also had a scavenger hunt where we focussed on using descriptive words to talk about the items we found. We took turns spinning the wheel and then tried to find something in the garden that related to the word it landed on. We found things that were BIG, ROUGH, TINY, SMOOTH and COLOURFUL.
Towards the end of the week we decided to build our own den using the sponge mats and tarpaulin. There was lots of teamwork and collaborative working. The children shared ideas and used their tent to engage in lots of role play. It was lovely to see the children being so creative and imaginative.
Within the literacy area, the children have been developing their understanding of retelling a story through pictures, known as storymaps. Miss Bashir has been very impressed with the drawings and level of detail the children have tried to include.
“Three little bears” PB
“The map was easier than the storybook” CB
In the malleable area the children were encouraged to develop their numeral identification skills using the bumble bee pebbles. The boys and girls developed their problem solving skills when faced with picking the pebbles up with tweezers, before matching the number pebble to the correct number tray.
The creative area was busy with children engaged in a fun and fascinating salt, glue and watercolour experiment with lots of learning opportunities including:
- Science: absorption
- Art: colour recognition and colour blending
- Fine motor: squeezing pipettes and droppers
- Co-ordination: pouring salt, shaking tray
- Concentration: applying colour to a specific area on the paper
- Problem solving – trial and error to discover how much colour to add. The colour will travel a short distance with small drops, too much will result in a change to the texture and consistency of the glue and salt.
“It’s an exploding rainbow” – IM
“It’s a swirly, girly spiders web” – MM
“I put 2 colours in and made mint” – NM
The boys and girls have been busy developing their sewing skills and leading their own learning by considering what they would like to make and what materials are needed to achieve this.
To end the week we were very lucky to have a special visitor to talk to us about his job as a journalist. The children were eager to listen to his stories and all thoroughly enjoyed watching the video of a little girl with a lion roar. We were delighted to learn more about what a journalist does and are excited to work on our investigative skills within the nursery.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. See you all next week.
