Yesterday, we went on an Easter Egg hunt in the woods! Firstly, we watched a video on the interactive whiteboard to learn what Easter was all about. Then, Miss Carter told us that she had seen the Easter bunny in the woods! So, we had to follow the footprints and arrows the bunny had left to find the eggs.

In our teams, we each had a basket and had to find as many as we could. We then counted all of the eggs in each basket, to work out who had the most and how many more they had compared to other groups. We also decided what we should do to make it fair, with some of the children suggesting we should share the eggs between all of the baskets. The bunny had hidden 18 eggs, but we didn’t manage to find them all so we also worked out how many we hadn’t managed to find. We all worked very well in our teams and made very good use of our mathematical and problem solving skills!

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Here is a brief snapshot of what we got up to last week…

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Last week in our ‘Trekking Tuesday’ session, we went on a walk around the school grounds and the woods to search for signs of Spring. We talked about what we thought we might see and then off we went with our binoculars, buckets, clipboards, magnifying glasses and iPads!

The children pointed out flowers, buds, animals, talked about the weather itself, took photographs using the iPads and also all drew pictures of what they had seen on our journey.

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Last week, we were very fortunate to join the rest of the school on a trip to Legoland! We had so much fun building towers, using different types of lego and even went on the ride. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the trip- we hope that you had as much fun as we all did!

This week in PE we were moving like sea creatures and moving away into space from the shark! We worked in teams to race against each other, collecting treasure from the sea.

This morning as part of our new ‘People Who Help Us’ topic, we had a visit from our local PCSO. The children were able to ask questions, dress up in Police clothes and even sit in the Police car!

Another busy week in Nursery!

Here are just a few of the exciting things we have done this week; listened to environmental sounds, made our own ‘rhyming rocket’, made aliens using playdough, completed an obstacle course, met the baby chicks and had them for the whole day in Nursery, ordered items and people by height, made jet packs using our PD skills and then learnt about capacity using our problem solving skills… we then worked in pairs to fill our jet packs to the top, selecting appropriate containers to do so in the quickest time! We have had so much fun learning and playing this week!

On Monday, we celebrated Chinese New Year… the Year of the Rooster! We made our own spring rolls, we mixed the ingredients together with Chinese Five Spice and folded them into pastry, before baking them in the oven. We also learnt about the animals which represent each year and used the internet to find out which animal year we were all born in. We were either, snakes, sheep, pigs, horses or dragons!

These are the completed masterpieces we have made using the different sized sticks we collected from the woods on our ‘Trekking Tuesday’ session this week. We did an amazing job at joining the pieces together using string and our fine motor skills!
   
    
    
 

The rest of us got the chance to make star biscuits and rockets today… We all did a super job at cleaning up afterwards too!   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
    
    
    
 

Yesterday we walked to the library. We thought carefully about how to stay safe on the roads and we were all very excited when we saw lots of diggers and workmen in town. We had so much fun singing and playing instruments at the library and even had the chance to read some books.  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

 

Today in PE we were all very excited because the theme was all about space. We moved like astronauts and aliens, lay on the ground in the shape of a star and also had to throw and catch planets to add to our universe in our teams. 

Last week, one of the children asked if we could  make star biscuits. So this morning some of us made the first batch and later in the week, the rest of the children will get the opportunity to as well. 

We talked about how you weigh ingredients and why. Some of us were reading the scales as each of the ingredients were poured in! We then took it in turns to mix the ingredients together, before rolling out the mixture and using star cutters. We all went to the oven and talked about safety in the kitchen, then decorated them when they were cooked. We explored different colours by mixing them together in the icing, one of the children decided they now looked like shooting stars!