Nursery - Listening And Attention - Matching Animal Sounds
During our listening and attention lesson this week the children were tasked with identifying different farm animal sounds. They were given a choice of 5 familiar animals from our story and had to listen really carefully to the sounds in able to correctly select the matching animlas. The children really enjoyed this activity and have been able to show off their new knowledge on animal sounds during play when accessing provision in the classroom.
Nursery - Computing - What's On The Farm?
This week in Nursery class we have started our new story 'oh dear!' which is set on a farm! The children used simple city to explore the different animals, plants and buildings we might find on a farm. They used their fingers to drag and place different objects onto the farm and discovered that the animals made noises when they were tapped. The children enjoyed this feature and began to mimic the noises they heard.
Reception - RE - Stories Jesus Heard.
In RE, Reception has been learning about stories Jesus heard. Today we recapped the story of Joseph and then they chose their favourite story to draw on a scroll. They enjoyed trying on Joseph's colourful coat!
Nursery - Maths - Can You Give One Each
During maths this week we have been looking at sharing groups of objects. The children were tasked with giving the little pigs one item each and sharing the objects fairly. The children were encouraged to count the objects as they gave them to the pigs and some children were able to correctly state that we needed 3 of each object when asked how many we would need. Well done nursery class.
Pre-School-PSHE-Self Care
Pre-School have been learning how to look after themselves. We independently wash our hands for snack time and select a cup and plate for placing our snack on. The children have also been washing the babies in the wash tray, using the sponges to clean the babies and made lots of bubbles. We talked about why it is important to wash our bodies, to keep the germs away.
Pre-School-Expressive Arts and Design- Valentine's Craft
The children have been busy using different materials to create Valentine items. The children have used cutting techniques to cut foil and tissue paper to make paper flowers. Making cards for the people we love, writing their names into the card and designing the front cover. We have mixed coloured glue to make different marks and watched what happened to the colours.
Nursery - Geography - Who's House Is This?
Linking with our story, the three little pigs, Nursery class have been investigating different houses. We used google maps to find the childrens houses and see if they recognised who's house it was. As a class we discussed if our houses were made out of straw, sticks or bricks and looked at the number of windows and other features of the houses we saw. The children were able to quickly identify their own houses and they proudly showed them off to the their friends, telling each other who lived with them at home.
Reception - Maths - Exploring Height
Today in reception we have been looking at height. The children have learned new vocabulary such as tall and tallest, short and shortest. We read the story, Titch and had a go at ordering objects by size. Then we measured each other on our height chart, recording the results.
Reception - Maths - Length
Today the children have been exploring length. We read the story Super worm and then using play dough we made our own Super-worms! The children had to place them in the correct order from longest to shortest. We then talked about how we could measure them, we selected some cubes from the maths shelf to work out how many cubes long they would be, with the children estimating first.
Nursery - P.E - Three Little Pigs Yoga
During P.E this week, Nursery class have taken part in some yoga! The children moved their bodies in different ways to represent significant events in our story, The three little pigs. The children followed the instructions well and really enjoyed using their gross motor skills, pretending to be the little pigs and the big bad wolf!
Pre-School- PSHE- The Colour Monster
The children have been developing their understanding of their emotions this week to support Children's Mental Health Week. We listened to The Colour Monster story and worked through all the different feelings and why we might feel this way. The children created their own monster of how they were feeling and added them to a jar.
Reception Class - Making Chocolate Mug Cakes!
The children were so excited this afternoon as we finally made our chocolate mug cakes. The children have been learning about ingredients and recipes this week, and our story has been Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. The children had to follow the recipe, carefully counting the number of spoonfuls of each ingredient. We then talked about what would happen when we cooked the mug cakes in the microwave. Some of the mug cakes rose so high, they spilled over the sides like a chocolate volcano!
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