Week 1
This week we have been reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. The children have loved getting involved with retelling the story, using their actions to support their understanding of the vocabulary.
We have also been using toy cars to travel along a variety of road maps, going past a shop, river or other places the children have recreated. This supports the children's understanding of the world, as well as their fine motor skills.
Week 2
This week we have been reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' again. The children have been really enthusiastic when retelling the story and using their actions to recreate the movements and the noises made throughout the story.
We have enjoyed using pipettes and paint to dye fabric to create the river and the mud from the story, supporting our creativity, our understanding of the world and our fine motor skills.
We also took the opportunity to go around the school on our very own teddy bear hunt, going through different parts of the school retelling the story in a way that made it real to the children.
Week 3
This week we have been reading the book Naughty Bus. The children have been using their creativity and developing their fine motor skills for cutting, sticking and painting by making junk model buses.
The children have also enjoyed learning new songs and rhymes which they practised at Rhyme Time.
Week 4
This week we have been reading Naughty Bus story, we have enjoyed looking for where the naughty bus has been each morning, finding him in places such as on top of the board, in the tree and on top of the art easel.
We have been using our cutting and sticking skills to create pictures of transport as well as acting out a bus route within our outside play, supporting their gross motor skills and their understanding of the world.
Week 5-
This week we have been reading Mr Gumpy's Motor car, the children didn't think that they would fit all those animals in their car.
We enjoyed some messy sensory play this week with blue ice in one area and sand in another, the children were exploring different ways that they could journey to each area.
Some children engaged in our junk modelling area and make boats to travel through water, other spent time in the reading area looking at stories involving different types of transport.
We began to practise our songs for rhyme time including "row row row your boat", "horsey, horsey don't you stop", and " The big ship sailed on the ally, ally oh".
Week 6-
This week we have continued to read "Mr Gumpy's motor car" and talking about how the cars that we use today, don't look the same as Mr Gumpy's.
We looked at various pictures of transport, past and present and talked about how they look different. Children commented things like "That bike is from the past, it doesn't look like my bike"
This week we also began some Christmas activities and used some snow dough to create snowmen.
We also included a large cardboard Gingerbread house within our provision, for the children to decorate.
Week 7
This week we worked really hard practising our Christmas songs for our performance to parents and when it came to it, the children really delivered. Their singing was amazing and they really enjoyed singing performing to their parents. I would like to thank you all for attending!
Within this weeks activities we enjoyed creating a Christmas tree from cardboard and threading pipe cleaners through it to make decorations, as well as painting and sticking glitter and sequins on it too.
We made reindeer faces in our play dough, stacked up boxes in size order to make a snowman as well as decorated biscuits. The children scooped up some reindeer food and carefully put it in a packet to bring home so that they could feed the reindeers.
On the last day of term the children enjoyed participating in a snowball fight on our nursery playground, using paper balls as the snow.
