Blog Author: Mrs Atkinson

The rain held off long enough for the nursery children to explore all of the transport themed frames in the play area. We have worked hard to take turns and wait patiently.

This week we have been investigating toys that need a push or a pull. Today we made aeroplanes. The children all decided to use very large paper. Unfortunately the wind blew all of our aeroplanes behind us!

This week we have been talking about places we would like to visit and how we would get there. The children voted on their favourite place and wrote their name to show which they preferred. The top two places were soft play closely followed by swimming.

We love our concertina doors. We can use the outdoors all through the day whatever the weather.

We went on a springtime hunt. We had to tick all the signs we saw.

We have been looking for things that grow outdoors. We took photos of each other using the iPad. 

The children had to hunt for creatures that hatch from eggs in our wooded walk. We talked about the life cycles of the different creatures we found.

On World Book Day, year 3 came to read to us. We really enjoyed having an older friend to read any book we chose. The children got on so well that we have invited them back.

Our scarf topic is “what is safe to go in our bodies?”

We have sorted things we might find at home into safe and unsafe. 

This week we have celebrated Chinese New Year with our friends. As part of the day we  listened to different pieces of music. We chose our favourite and performed a dragon dance to it. We had to go up, down and around like the real dragon dancers.

This week we have been talking about the jobs farmers do in God’s wonderful world. We have looked closely at fruits and vegetables that grow at this time of year. We predicted what we might see when we cut the squashes open and if the colour on the outside made a difference to the inside.

Today we have had a visit from Tony Peek, a poet. We have listened to lots of amazing poems and we got to dance and sing.