For the last 2 weeks the children in nursery have been learning the days of the week. We have been singing songs to practice the cycle of the days and it has helped us learn the day before and day after. We read ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and discussed what he ate every day. At the Art and Craft table some of the boys and girls painted a caterpillar and placed a day of the week card on each part of his body. We then put the days in order and attached the food that he ate on the correct days. As a team, we also completed a jigsaw and looked at the different things the children did on different days. The boys and girls can now complete this independently or with a friend.

At home the children could sing you the days of the week songs and try to talk about what day it is today, tomorrow, yesterday.

This week in the nursery we have been discussing our nursery charter. The children worked in their small groups with their adult to decide on what they would like to feel like in the nursery and the things that make them happy. They decided that being kind, sharing, helping each other and listening to each other were important if we were going to play, learn and be safe. The children then decorated a kind hand and spoke about what they used their kind hands for.

“My kind hands will always be kind.” Amelia-Jo

“My kind hands give love to everybody that wants to go to the park.” Hannah

“My kind hands share.” Erin

“My hands are kind to people who are sad.” Lola

We took these ideas and put them in to our charter and we think it’s looking great!