This week, we listened to another of Jill Murphy’s stories titled ‘Whatever Next!’. It’s about a little bear who went on an adventure to the moon. This story led to lots of conversations about space and rockets. We watched a rocket blast off into space and joining in with the countdown from 10. We created our own space station in our small world area and blasted our own rockets in to space ….. blast off!
In the story baby bear makes his own space rocket from a cardboard box. We decided to make our own rockets in the creative area using different shaped boxes and bottles. It was quite tricky working out how to attach the different parts together.
We enjoyed singing the number rhyme “5 Little men in a flying saucer” this week. Showing the amounts on our fingers as we sang the song. The children are getting really good at this important mathematical skill.
Help at home: Can you sing a number song at home and use you fingers to show the amount?
Here are some number songs to try.
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive.
Next week’s learning:
We are looking forward to reading ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson in our story times next week. If you don’t have a copy of the book at home, you might enjoy watching the BBC animation together.
In maths, we’re learning about length so will be using the words long, short, longer and shorter to compare different objects.
Sound of the week
i for iguana
Pull your lips back and make the i sound at the back of your mouth.
Nursery rhyme of the week –
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Reminders
Please return the Christmas slip to let us know if you can attend one of our ‘Stay and Decorate’ sessions in December. Please see the letter for more details of dates and times.
We hope that you have a happy and healthy weekend.