This week Nursery have been thinking about our wonderful World. We listened to the story ‘Under the same Sky’ by Britta Teckentrup and looked at the different habitats around the world and the animals that live there and compared them to our local environment! Could you ever imagine an elephant walking down the Binley Road, or flamingoes wading in the pond at Coombe Abbey Park!!!
The children considered keeping our nursery area clean and litter free and enjoyed collecting rubbish with our new litter pickers! We learned about recycling with Polly Olly and sorted some rubbish into plastic, metal, cardboard and paper objects. We found out that there is too much plastic rubbish in the sea and how it can harm sea creatures in the story ‘Clean Up!’ by Nathan Bryon
. We then watched an animated story called ‘A Whale’s Tale’, where the whale and his sea creature friends collected all the plastic in the sea. The children also enjoyed learning a song about picking up litter and colouring in posters reminding us to keep our world and oceans clean.
In Phonics the children did their daily Little Wandle activities, where they continue to practise their oral blending and phonemic awareness and learned the new sound ‘th’. They have been finding lots of rhyming words in stories and have played a game putting rhyming words together to make a rhyming string.
In Maths the children have continued with their daily counting forwards and backwards and have been learning new vocabulary to do with the position of things when they played a game with Mrs Lindsay.
The children have ‘travelled’ to different areas of the world with Cbeebies ‘Andy’s Wild Workouts’ and learned where different animals live such as under the sea, the African Savannah, the Rainforests and the Arctic while exercising at the same time!
The children went on a journey with the small world people and made a giant map as they explored different landscapes, such as mountains, rivers, valleys and beaches and used positional language to describe where they were going! They also listened to the story ‘The Great Explorer’ by Chris Judge.
