Peep
This months Peep focus was exploring movement. Lucas and Lacey have enjoyed playing with the bubbles in their Peep packs. Out in their garden they have been exploring how the bubbles float on the air and have had great fun running after them trying to catch then before they pop. Looks like they have had a lot of fun and exercise!!!!
Nursery Garden
Mrs Galbraith has been busy with the children in the garden doing lots digging and planting. The children have been choosing what fruit and vegetables they would like to grow choosing pumpkins, onions and butternut squash to plant directly into the garden. In some of our tubs we have also planted sweet peas and are continuing to look after the potatoes that we planted in April, the plants are getting really tall and bushy now so hopefully wont be long before we can begin to harvest them. The berry fruit trees are also beginning to grow and we have had to build a frame using bamboo canes to support them, Our strawberries and tomato plants are beginning to flower hopefully we will begin to see strawberries and tomatoes starting to grow soon. We have also been planting different flowers in the garden, in tubs and on the fence, so hopefully our garden will be full of colour if the weather continues to be nice!
Minibeasts
Our current topic of interest in the nursery is minibeasts. Emily-Ann brought some snails into the nursery that she found in her garden 2 weeks ago. The children and Mrs Whatcott used a large plastic tub to create a habitat for them. Using the iPads they found out how to look after the snails to make sure that they stayed well and healthy. You can see that the children have enjoyed this experience and we eager to be involved in looking after them. We released the snails back into the wild on Tuesday finding a natural habitat where they would thrive and when we went to look today all the snails have moved on so obviously are happy to be back in nature.
Numeracy
We have been doing lots of counting using 1-1 correspondence and matching quantity to numerals in the nursery this week. The children counted to number of dots in the dot pattern on the card and matched the quantity to the numeral having a choice of 3 numerals. We are getting really good at recognising numbers and relating these to quantity.
