We learned about the Hindu festival of Diwali.  This is a festival of lights, and we made diva lamps and lanterns in nursery. They have fireworks to celebrate and we made our own display on the smartboard (it was VERY noisy!) We listened to the story of Rama and Sita and thought Ravana – the baddie with 10 heads was not a nice man!  We made puppets and acted out the story in our puppet theatre. We drew mendhi patterns and some of us drew Rangoli patterns outside with chalk.

 

Our maths focus this month was measuring. We enjoyed measuring lots of things and used different things to measure – for example our feet, our hands, a ruler, a piece of string, measuring tape, trundle wheel and even scales.