Blog by Tag: Early Years

After reading Yucky Worms! By Vivian French, we made our own wormery. We had great fun and we are enjoying watching them work. 
 

To celebrate British Science Week, we have been investigating materials. We pretended to be the Big Bad Wolf to test the strength of different materials. We made predictions about which we thought would be the strongest materials. We then tried to blow away bricks, pom poms, chocolate, paper, wood…

We have enjoyed learning about Traditional Tales. This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have enjoyed acting out the story, making bears out of play dough, trying porridge and writing an apology letter to the bears from Goldilocks.

We have had such a brilliant World Book Day! We have loved dressing up, listening to different fairytales and making bookmarks. 

We’ve had so much fun celebrating Pancake Day today! We enjoyed reading the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes and spotted some characters from the fairytales we have been reading. We helped Mr Wolf to write his shopping list and then followed the recipe to make our own pancakes. We chose our own toppings…

We have been practising our tricky troll words in lots of different ways. We spotted them in some books, played games, used flash cards and practised writing them without peeking! We are doing brilliantly! 

This week we have been exploring melting and freezing. We have learnt lots of new words like frozen, solid, liquid, melting and temperature. We used the freezer to freeze water then tried different ways to melt the ice. The warm water melted the ice the fastest. We also melted some chocolate using…

We’ve been learning all about snow, ice and Arctic animals. We held pieces of ice to see what happened and enjoyed talking about the melting process. 

We watched a video about a little girl called Sophia who celebrated the Jewish festival of Hanukkah with her family. We learnt all about the traditions including decorations, candles, songs, games, prayers and food. We followed a recipe for latke (potato pancakes) and made them. The Jewish people…

We have been learning about different celebrations. We have talked about Bonfire night, birthdays and Diwali. Look at the wonderful diva lamps and rangoli patterns we have made! 
 

In nursery we have been taking part in activities and talking all Autumn. We have been on walks to explore and look out for the changes that are happening around us.  
 

Don’t we look fantastic in our spooky costumes?! We enjoyed sharing the story Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. We looked at the rhyming words and made our own silly rhyming spells. We had lots of fun in the spooky sensory trays and play dough. We even wrote our own potion ingredients out and…