Miss Merricks did an experiment with the children to give them a better understanding about germs, how to stop them spreading and careful hygiene. The children were fascinated!

We followed this up with a song https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOYWiDyov0

The children enjoyed baking Gingerbread Men this week, Mrs Holloway shared her special recipe.

A lovely last week of term, we have celebrated a 4th birthday, the children enjoyed some delicious cakes brought in by a parent.

This week children have enjoyed using the felt tip pens to trace patterns and shapes, they have been creative with paints using vehicles to make marks, drawn around wooden animal stencils then collaged and helped decorate lettering for our display board ‘Acorns Favourite Books’.

Our colour of the week was blue so we were looking at objects inside and outside, coloured blue. We continued looking at numerals 0-3, the children are starting to recognise these numbers out of order (which is amazing) – they also had a go at painting them.

The children have all been a super helpers looking after our indoor and outdoor space. They have swept, tidied and washed up after snack. Thank you!

Our colour of the week was red, during circle time the children sorted objects into two groups, red and not red. They also went on a hunt for red objects inside and outside nursery. In the maths area, the children sorted letters by shape and posted them in the circle, triangle, rectangle or square postbox. 

Incy Wincy Spider visited our fine motor area, the children enjoyed matching the colours on the lollipop sticks to the colours on the spiders legs, they used critical thinking and problem solving skills to help them.
For personal, social and emotional development over the course of the week we looked at healthy and not healthy foods.

Last week, after reading ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ (which the children absolutely loved), we made jam sandwiches in nursery. The children followed our instructions and we used language such as first, then, now, next and finally. The children’s favourite part was eating their sandwich at snack time!

In nursery this week the children made fire engine footprints and enjoyed playing with the small world toys – the Fireman Sam set (we have been looking at the role of a Firefighter, the vehicles they drive and equipment they use).

The children have practised their scissor skills, cutting mermaids hair and with support, cut out wheels for their fire engine pictures. They have made lots of meaningful marks on our tv / book themed mark making table and used their problem solving skills to balance compare bears and build bridges for them to cross.

This week the children explored fruits and vegetables in our tuff tray. They deseeded peppers, apples, looked the pulp and seeds inside the pumpkin then scooped them out.

The children enjoyed being creative, independently gluing and sticking features and props to make their own Mr Potato Head (after playing with Mr Potato Head last week).

We had great weather on Monday at Forest School, we went hunting for apples that had fallen off the tree to make all sorts of muddy delights. Nursery children had fun balancing the apples on a wooden spoon.

In maths, we looked at patterns, the children used natural objects and followed the sequence, we used sequencing words (first and next). Some of the children painted repeated patterns with pom poms.