We have had a lot of busy bees in Nursery. We have been learning all about bees, Bumblebees and Honey bees. We found out where they live and how hard they work. At snack time, we tasted some honey on our toast. Although some children were a little reluctant to try it at first, everybody had a taste and decided if they liked it or not.
Outside, we played a ‘bee’ game where we had to collect ‘pollen’ from around the garden. Children loved hiding the balls for their friends and then running to find them. After we’d collected the pollen balls, we counted them into a large five frame to see how many we had found.
In maths, we noticed a pattern in the honeycomb in a book about bees. We used hexagons to see if we could recreate the honeycomb pattern. There were lots of opportunities to practise our counting skills this week using yellow counters as pollen for the bees.
At group time we used our mark making skills to create pictures of bees. We are working really hard at holding our pens with a pincer grip. We made sure that our bees had a repeating pattern of black and yellow and of course 6 legs!
We have been watching our cocoons closely this week in the hope that they would turn into butterflies before the holidays. It appears that they are super cosy inside their cocoons and are not quite ready to emerge just yet. They will be going home with Mrs Beesley so that she can keep a close eye on them.
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We have been finding out lots of facts about mini beasts this half term. Ask your child if they can talk to you about what they have found out. We are sure that they will remember lots.
We hope that you all have a happy and healthy half term holiday. We will see you back at Nursery on Monday 02 June.