Nursery Newsletter

We have been very busy in Nursery over the past couple of weeks.

In our SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) sessions we have been learning about how we can look after ourselves.  The children were provided a variety of fruits and vegetables to taste test and decide which of the fruit and vegetables were their favourite.  They used words such as tasty, juicy, soft, hard, slimy, sour, sweet, etc. to descibe how the foods tasted. The children had a great time tasting the food and some were brave enough to try some they had never tasted before!

In Maths, we have been using sunflower seeds to help us understand number and amounts.  The children had 10 sunflower seeds, dropped them on a piece of paper and then looked for groups of seeds (this is called subitizing, when you know how many is in a small group without counting, e.g. the spots on a dice).  They then transferred the seeds onto 5 frames.  Some children were able to see that 5 and 5 made ten.

In our RAW lessons we have been learning through stories from around the world.  Last week we read the story ‘Bilal and the Beautiful Butterfly’ which is a Muslim story and this week we looked at the Sikh story of ‘The Crocodile and the Priest’.  Bilal and the Beautiful Butterfly was helping us to understand about things that are beautiful and special.  The Crocodile and the Priest tells us how Sikhs believe that people should not think they are better than other people but be the best person they can be.

We went for a minibeast hunt this week up at the school Forest area. We learned the Forest School rules and each of the children had their own magnifying glass so they could search for minibeasts (there was also some time to climb trees!).  We found lots of little minibeasts and a big spider on a log!