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The children have been learning all about the season of Spring and some of the festivals that happen in Spring time – Eid and Easter. They have been looking at signs of Spring in the environment, planting some seeds and learning how to look after them.
Nursery have been learning about different occupations and people who have jobs that help us.
Here are some of the activities we have done to support this topic.
Role play and dressing up
Painting
A visit from PCSO Abbey who told us all about the role of the police officer and let us look in her police car.
Oral health and the role of the Dentist
In nursery we have been reading the story of the very hungry caterpillar written by Eric Carle.
We have been doing lots of activities related to the story including sequencing events, learning about the lifecycle of the butterfly, painting butterfly’s and creating pattern caterpillars.
We also tried tasting all the fruit the hungry caterpillar ate in the story.
The children all dressed up as their favourite book characters and shared their favourite books with their friends. Everyone looked amazing and we had a lovely day sharing books and stories.
In nursery we have been reading the stories of Goldilocks and the three bears, the gingerbread man and the three little pigs.
Here are some of the activities we have been doing…..
Goldilocks and the three bears
Exploring dried oats, tasting porridge, ordering by size and role playing with masks.
The gingerbread man
Counting buttons, practicing fine motor skills with tweezers and decorating gingerbread men.
The three little pigs
Exploring weight, building houses and role playing with boxes.
In Nursery we have been learning about the season Winter. We have been exploring our environment and looking at changes. We have been talking about the changes in the weather and the clothes we need to wear and doing Winter paintings and activities.
Exploring the frost
Winter activities
Christmas crafts
Decorating the Christmas tree
Visit from Santa
Party Day – Party games
Party food
Where is the bear? in front, behind, on or under the chair?
Exploring texture
Ice, mud, sticks
Acting out the story on the field
Our bear cave
The children in Nursery have been learning all about Bonfire night. They have been learning about how to keep themselves safe, doing firework paintings by splashing the paint, using scarves and streamers to dance like fireworks. making shapes and patterns in coloured sand and glitter and have made some chocolate sparklers by melting chocolate and adding coloured sprinkles.
The children in Nursery have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali.
They have made paper plate Diyas.
They have made Rangoli patterns
They have done some Indian dancing and listened to some Indian music.
Here is the story of Rama and Sita.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-diwaliperformance
