WOW – how can we be on week 7 already?! Here’s a peerie look at what we’ve been up to the last 2 weeks……
Inspired by the different genres of music we’ve been learning about, we extended our music into learning about our Super Powers – SENSES!. We have been exploring our sense of sight and hearing and loved using these music bells to make our own music as well as copt patterns and rhythms of other music.
We made glasses and played games where we had to use only our eyes or only our ears to play the game. “Winky” was our favourite where we all had to choose someone to wink or blink at and swap places without anyone seeing.
As always we’ve had great fun outside with a mixed bag of weather. We’ve been painting, exploring the forest while being mindful of what we could see and hear each time. We loved the sound of the rustling leaves in the wind and the crunching leaves under our feet. We took leaves back to Nursery and enjoyed, leaf printing, making our family trees and a big thank you tree for Paul, who helped us care for our forest. We even used the leaves to make our Christmas cards!
Our forest gives us great opportunities to talk about Autumn and see the leaves changing. We looked for different animals that might live in our forest and thought about the hedgehogs who may be looking for somewhere to hibernate. We even made our own Autumn tree in the playground.
We’ve enjoyed sunshine at the playpark and rainy days for puddle splashing. We went fishing in the puddles for fish and sea creatures. We made homes and aquariums for each sea creature which developed into a fun “sinking and floating” experiment.
We worked together to make a water fall and use the water to move objects down the pipes and what better way to end the day, than with a water fight!! Lots of fun was had by all.
Lots of fun in the mud kitchen and mark making…..
Mark making……
We’ve been busy learning about road safety on our walks and recreating these in the playground with trips on our “bus”, road works and bikes and scooters, whilst building roads and ramps inside with different materials.
Looking forward to see what next week brings………
We have been making playdoh for baking in our kitchen and been for walks to the forest and play park. On Thursday we all got our waterproofs on and made a big puddle in our playground to splash in. We then decided to go on a puddle hunt to find a bigger puddle! 
We have LOVED having the rice in the tuff tray to measure, pour, weigh, make rice cakes with and so much more!
We have been dancing and exploring to different genres of music, rock and Shetland dance was a firm favourite! We discussed how different types of music makes us feel and what it makes us want to do (run, jump, sleep). We then tried to match it to each of the colour monsters depending on how it made the children feel (happy, sad, calm, angry, love, scared).
On Friday we had the magnets out in our loose parts and watched a video about magnetism and why magnets repel and attract. We discovered lots of things in nursery that were magnetic and also found out that we could move the magnetic balls on the tuff tray with a magnet underneath which was very exciting!
