Month: November 2019

We decided to make vegetable soup on our cookery day. The children decided some of the different vegetables that they’d like to put in it and then they helped to chop up them up. It was quite tricky as some of the vegetables were quite hard. We cooked the soup in our kitchen. When It was ready we had a taste. Yum yum! Super soup!

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Following on from reading Whatever Next some of the children made their own rockets. We used environmental packaging: bottles, boxes and tubes. Working alongside an adult enabled them to plan their rockets and learn to use glue, masking tape and gum strip to join. Afterwards we sprayed them silver…. Whoosh!!!

The children love to climb the trees in our garden. This encourages them to take risks while engaging in nature.

The children decided to explore bubbles using the tubes “you have to blow it, blow hard they tell each other”

weaving allows the children to develop their fine motor skills, while developing their knowledge of patterns and positional vocabulary- in and out, back and front. It’s also a really enjoyable activity.

The children are just beginning to explore using these blocks. They’re a wonderful open ended resource that encourages problem solving and cooperation. Here, the children are using the blocks with other equipment to build a car. They roll the tyres over as they know that cars have four wheels. Having to use our imagination to find a steering wheel allows children to think about what the original object looks like.

Our story, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark opened up lots of conversations about night time routines. We found out about dark and the children loved the part of the story about dark being fun as you can have hot chocolate. The children were really excited when we suggested that we could have hot chocolate at nursery. We decided to make a “fire” and we sang songs around it as we drank our lovely hot chocolate!