There was a huge amount of excitement in Nursery this week as we had some very wriggly visitors! Worms! The real live worms were the latest minibeast we have had visit us, helping the children to explore and investigate our topic of Minibeasts. The children were fascinated with the real worms and, after learning about how to look after and handle the worms gently, were very enthusiastic to hold them. They even placed them on their wrists saying they had worm bracelets! We worked together to make a ‘wormery’ for our worms and we will observe them over the next few weeks. We learned that worms have no eyes or ears. They have a mouth but with no teeth. We learned the special scientific name for creatures with no backbones – invertebrates! Did you know that the longest worm in the world can be up to 3m long!
One of our Maths activities last week was the Super Worm Hula Hoop game! The children had to throw bean bags into a hoop and then record how many were inside the hoop and how many were outside the hoop. They were asked to record the activity using their own symbols and numerals as well as saying one number for each bean bag in order.
Our Sports day is Monday 18th July. Last week we used our PE time to practice some of the events on the school field. We practiced our hurdles and bean bag throwing as well as our running races. The children are very excited about Sports day and more information will be provided shortly.
We have been celebrating Diversity Week at school. We joined the Reception classes to create a Wonderful rainbow mural. We also joined Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 in a celebration parade on the field. We made flags and listened to the older children sing songs and read their poetry. We had some fantastic Equality books, and we had a guest teacher visit us, Miss Hodges from Year 5, who read us a lovely story.
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