Signs of Spring

During half term we noticed lots of changes in Nursery.

All the bulbs we planted have begun to shoot up.
Some of our plants have buds on them and one or two even have flowers.
The trees have little leaf buds on them.

We have cleared the vegetable patch so that we can begin to plant some peas, beans and carrots.

Rec Bishop - Little Red Riding Hood

RMcCabe - The Enormous Turnip

We have been loving the story, the Enormous Turnip, so on Monday everyone planted some tiny seeds with Mrs B. They put cotton wool in each tray and a pinch of seeds, then sprinkled with water. What do you think they will turn into?

Through the week the children have been learning about plants and how to look after them. They have also been writing some brilliant instructions to help other people look after their seeds.

Wow look how our seeds have grown! They are cress seeds.

RMcCabe - Chinese New Year

Last week Reception were celebrating Chinese New Year. We tried Chinese stir fry (made by Mrs T!), prawn crackers and rice and everyone tried a little bit of everything.

We also worked with place value with Numicon and coins, made Chinese dragons and lanterns and practised using chopsticks. Here are some pictures of the children enjoying the inside and outside activities:

RBingham - Goldilocks and The Three Bears

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

This week's traditional story has been 

'Goldilocks and The Three Bears'.

We wrote 'sorry' letters from Goldilocks, speech bubbles and some of us decided to make our own books! 

Authors in the making!

We couldn't have read 'Goldilocks' without making porridge!

Most of us enjoyed adding golden syrup to our porridge to make it sweet, just as Mummy Bear likes it!

 In our role play area, we acted out the story taking on different roles, using different types of voices.

 In Maths, we explored the concept of 'doubling': Daddy Bear always ate 'double' the amount of Baby Bear's food. We drew pictures as representations and also wrote number sentences to show our working.

We made different sized beds and chairs for the three bears.

We have also been finding lots of different ways of representing teen numbers, such as using Numicon, tens and ones, unifix cubes and sorting bears.

After watching Numberblocks, we have been exploring square numbers and also finding different ways of representing the number 10. 

We have also been opening padlocks to find 'teen' numbers.

Again, we have enjoyed reading different versions of the story. These are some of our favourites!

Another busy week in Class RBingham!