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To finish our topic on minibeasts the children have been creating their own using leaves, googly eyes and small sticks. They have also been using tweezers to place mop poms on butterfly wings. We hope you all have a lovely half term.
Over the last two weeks we have been minibeast spotting in our nursery grounds. We found lots of bugs including bees, ladybirds, butterflies, ants, woodlice, flies and beetles. We were very gentle and didn't try to hurt them as we have been talking about that in our P4C session this week.
This week in nursery, our oldest children have been busy creating minibeasts using soft clay. They have made some fantastic creations using their imagination and physical skills to make butterflies, spiders, ladybirds, caterpillars and bees. What super stars!
On Wednesday we released our five butterflies outside. We have loved watching their lifecycle, it has been fascinating to see them in the caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly stage. It was very exciting to see them fly out of the net and away. We hope they come back to visit the nursery grounds soon!
This week in nursery we have enjoyed threading flowers into cardboard vases. We talked about the shapes and colours of the petals. Some were tricky but we tried hard and the results look great.
This week we have been making cornflake buns to eat at our VE day celebration, which we had today. All the children in nursery got to eat a bun and the children who stayed for lunch ate outside with the F2s. It was lots of fun!
This week we have been painting pictures of our blossom trees that are growing in the nursery garden.
Over the last 2 weeks we have been on a Spring walk outside school in either our nursery grounds or just outside school. We spotted lots of signs of Spring including blossom on the trees, flowers growing and the sun in the sky. The oldest nursery children compared the grounds to what we saw in Autumn and Winter, they talked about how the leaves turned different colours and fell off the trees in Autumn and that there were no leaves on the trees in Winter. What great learning guys!
We have some fantastic additions in nursery, we have some caterpillars that have joined nursery. We have been enjoying observing them and finding out what happens. They started off really tiny but are now enormous and are beginning to make their chrysalis. We can't wait to see them turn into butterflies.
This week in nursery we have been busy planting Sunflower seeds. The children have really impressed their teachers with how much they know about planting and what seeds need to make them grow. We can't wait to see what happens to the seeds over the next couple of weeks. Isla has sent some photos in of the seeds she is growing at home, thank you Isla we look forward to hearing how well your seeds are doing at home.
This week we have been developing our fine motor skills. We had to trace over the pictures and try to stay on the lines. We needed to concentrate really hard. It was very tricky !
We have some more wonderful photos of our nursery children enjoying Eid. Hussien, Zayyan and Aisha had a fantastic time celebrating!
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