Nursery Learning - Week of the 15th May

Nursery Learning

 This week we have added grated soap and whisks to the water tray. The children have enjoyed watching as the soap melted and mixing with their whisks. They have had to carefully twist the whisks showing good hand to eye co-ordination and have enjoyed watching as bubbles appear. 

The children decided to create a car wash this week! The weather has been lovely so they added soap and bubbles to a bucket and worked hard scrubbing the cars and bikes. They showed great team work during this activity. 

The children have also enjoyed building dens outside, reading on picnic blankets outside and creating obstacle courses with their friends. 

The lovely weather also allowed us to take our large scale art outside. The children absolutely loved painting in this way and the large brush strokes supported their gross motor skills.

As usual, the children were cooking up some delightful dirty dishes in our mud kitchen and decided to add some sand to the mix. The adults enjoyed 'eating' lots of these different recipes! 

For snack this week the children have been creating some delicious pizza bagels. They carefully cut the toppings; courgette, sweetcorn and peppers and added this to their bagel after spreading the tomato passata and sprinkling on cheese. They all agreed they were very yummy. 

We had the BeeBots out in the environment this week and the children loved working out how to use them. Without instruction, they worked out that you could use the arrows and other commands to program the BeeBot to travel from one location to the other. This was a great introduction to programming and debugging (problem solving) without the children realising what important skills they were developing.  

'What's the time Mr Wolf? DINNER TIME!' The children love to follow their own interest and it was fantastic to observe them this week organising this game without support. They allowed lots of children to join the game at different times and took turn to be the wolf. There was lots of great communication during this, and even more fun!

Inside, the children were also organising their own games. We spotted these children independently choosing and setting up to play snakes and ladders. It was fantastic to see such important skills such as communication and maths, being used in this way. 

This week's art area was focused on designing their own mask, linked to our book this week, 'Elliott he Midnight Superhero'. We were practising our cutting skills so the children were encouraged to use collage to decorate their masks and scissors to cut it out.

And to finish with, look at the skills shown here in a penalty shoot out the children took part in. They used the nursery equipment to set up the goal and then each took a turn to shoot and be in goal.