The salt water ice and the tap water ice have both turned back to water
Pass the parcel.
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Heavier- how do you know? Qualifying your maths answer.
Re reading the same book to the same child.: becoming familiar with texts.
Investigating ice shapes in continuous provision.
Stars- non fiction
To link with learning about the Nativity story and the Star of Bethlehem, we have learnt some facts about stars. This is early physics knowledge.
Investigating which is heavier: one child in a crate or 2? Although this is obvious to adults, understanding this concept is not innate. Children need to learn this through investigative play.
Music with Mrs Cooper
Developing listening skills. Children need to 'attune' their listening and process the difference in sound for phonics blending and segmenting later on.
Working collabratively, assessing risk and developing balance.
Colour Monster homework for PSHE
Finding penguins on a map jigsaw.
'It's a penguin.'
'Penguins live down here.'
'It's a penguin house.'
'I can see through the ice.'
We discovered tracks in the snow. Apparently, a rabbit visits the Nursery playground...
when we are not there.
'It's another penguin.'
Investigating properties of ice. Early physics.
Investigating heavier and lighter using our home made balance scale.
This is a tricky concept for 3 and 4 year olds. They need to experience it.
Excellent characteristics of effective learning.
We followed a trail of green glitter to find our Xmas tree. The tree fairy delivered it.
What sort of clothes do we need in winter?
Looking at triangles.
Pre writing
Looking at circles.
Being independent
Looking at ice and frost.
Printing
Counting cones and subitising
This child worked out if he wrapped the handles in his scarf, the cold didn't get through.
Early physics.
Fine motor skills.
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We have been learning about weight in Nursery. We learn about it through exploring practically. Children learn the vocabulary ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’ and ‘the same’.
Rosie's Walk- a text linked to the concept of time. Time is a really tricky concept for children. This is why if something happens the day before, children will refer to it as 'last year' or any other random time. The concept of time passing can be addressed through this text by using 'first', 'next', 'then', 'finally' etc. This text also addresses positional language.
We're Going On A Bear Hunt- performed by authorThis is a performance we have been using as part of our phonics. Children have to be able to recognise rhythm. This text is performed (for the the walking rhythm part) in 4/4 time. It is useful to your child to perform the rhythm of this text with your child and use 'body percussion' such as patting your knees along with the rhythm. If your child would like and your eardrums can stand it, you could beat 4/4 time with an upturned saucepan and wooden spoon..
Children are sorting resources according to a criteria. This is science and maths.
We have been looking at weight in maths. We noticed sponges are heavier when wet.
We have lifted different size and shape containers with water in and compared weight.
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Sequencing characters in The Enormous Turnip.
Communication and Language skills
Re-telling the story in own words.
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This child has decided she needs to attach something and has chosen tape to do so. She does not yet have the wrist strength to pull the tape down so it cuts on the serrated edge. She does not let this stop her. She chooses from our different types of scissors a pair she can use, and cuts it this way. This displays creativity, problem solving, fine motor skills and independence.
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These 2 children are performing collaboratively. We have been focusing on rhythm in phonics and literacy. We have learnt rhythms of 4/4 time (although we have used the vocab 'beats'). The child on the right is remembering 4/4 time and the child on the left is experimenting with pitch and timbre. Your child needs to be able to differentiate these sounds for reading and spelling later on.
Children in Need dots. We will explore further when we learn about Yayoi Kusama.
Children learning how to hold a paintbrush- this builds wrist and finger strength.
It also provides the adults in Nursery with info on how much control a child has.
You will notice that children grasp the brush in different ways.
Guided Reading lessons happen every day in Nursery.
It's important for children to see range of texts (even a Tesco magazine in Home Area)😁
Rectangle cereal. Oat milk is provided for children with milk allergies.
Sometimes it is good to fit in a bit of drawing after cereal.😁
Impromptu yoga.
Dominoes.
Making a rectangle with rectangles.
Independently using a sandtimer for turn- taking.
Keeping our outside sandtimers in the corners of a square. Maths is everywhere.
Building core, shoulder, wrist and finger strength.
Mark making outside.
Mark making inside.
Making narrative and working collaboratively. This was a 'sea' next to a 'city'.
Then another city in the sea.
Comparing length. Children learnt that in order to compare length accurately...
we need to ensure we have the same 'starting place'.
We used the vocab shorter, longer, shortes, longest...
this also teaches children comparative vocab in grammar.
Making rhythms with claves...
and drums.
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Anti clockwise circle practice in readiness for handwriting. Poppies for Armistice day.
The three little pigs.
Learning that when we measure, all the items need to be at the same starting point.
Measuring sticks for the little pig’s house
We read the story of the Three Little Pigs...
in the story, the wolf and the little pig picked some apples from a tree.
We remembered where we saw the apple tree in the school grounds last half term.
We could not reach as the tree and apples were taller than us.
We had a think and problem solved how to get the apples.
We decided we need to use something taller than us..
Light installation
We worked as a team to snap, bend and thread into a chain. We pulled the blinds down, turned off the lights and hung across our classroom.
Exploring dark with torches.
Making an ABAB pattern in maths.
Making an AABAAB pattern.
Investigating composite number to 5.
Fine motor skills.
Investigating secondary colour mixing.
It is not always obvious for a 3/4 year old to carry on a mathematical ABAB pattern.
Our collaborative light sculpture
Making squirrel cake.
HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD-SUBITISING. This is not a skill children are born with, it needs to develop. It is needed to free up working memory and is essential for KS1 and KS2 mathematics.
A demo of how to test if your child can subitise. You will notice we start of with concrete objects that are all the same, it then progressed to concrete objects that are different colours, then on to pictorial representation of dots. We tried 0 to 3, then moved onto up to 5.
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