Thanks to everyone who brought in Autumn treasures. We shared our final few this week. So many interesting things pumpkins, conkers and acorns. We have really enjoyed sharing their contents and finding out all about them.
Using them all we created a display to explore together. Magnifying glasses helped us to look closely,
“The pine cone looks big”
“I see lines on the leaf”
The artist, Andy Goldsworthy inspired our autumnal creative work this week. We worked together to create a spiral pattern of conkers, pine cones and leaves.
Our interest in autumn has helped us to develop our fine motor skills too. This is the development of the muscles in the fingers. This will help us to develop an effective pencil grip.
We balanced conkers and fir cones on up- turned cups. Used tongs to add conkers to our recipes in the mud kitchen. Then caught leaves with tongs in the water tray.
Why not try this at home ? Use old kitchen tongs or pegs to pick up the leaves in your garden or at the park. Let us know how you get on.
We always enjoy watching the children lead their own learning in nursery. This happens when they develop their own activities. Last week they used the hoops and decided to collect objects from around the outdoor provision that matched the colours of the hoops. Leaves, bricks, pens, flowers and cars were all placed into colour sets.
They then found orange flowers and pink bricks, but there weren’t any orange or pink hoops. What to do? They found some coloured paper and completed the sets. Lots of mathematical talk, co operation and team work. Super learning nursery.
Next week’s learning
Our story next week is Room on the Broom, it’s written by the very popular author, Julia Donaldson. You may be familiar with the story from the BBC version. You can watch it on BBC iplayer
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Incy Wincey Spider Can you sing this at home?
A few reminders
- Parent Teacher consultations – Please don’t forget to sign up for these 10 minute appointments. This is an opportunity to find out how your child has settled into nursery. It’s on zoom this time, the next meetings will be in person.
- We still need your family photos. The children are really enjoying talking about their special people and seeing their photos in our home area each day.