This week in nursery we have been using our observational skills to match the right fur, scales or skin to the correct animal, the children have had a wonderful time discussing the patterns, skins and textures they can see to match them to the correct animal!

Nursery have loved beginning to learn about the animals you would find in a zoo or safari park, they have been making animal noises and actions with our small world safari, made toilet roll animals, played story matching pairs, shared many animal stories and started to do observational drawings of wild animals.

Nursery were thrilled to meet the chicks last week, they all sat beautifully and stayed brilliantly calm around them. The children loved asking ‘mother hen, Mrs Garraway’ questions about the chicks and learning about their life cycle, well done nursery!

Lately the nursery children have loved going to the adventure playground, they have a brilliant time being active and brave in the open air with their friends while having a good go at climbing, swinging and jumping on and off the equipment.

Last week in our reading groups we read ‘Look Out!’ The children enjoyed exploring their own book, looking at the title page and blurb on the back, turning the pages, discussing what was happening on each page and talking about the beginning, middle and the end of the story when sharing their favourite part with their friends.

Last week in nursery we were food producers for a couple of sessions. We all worked brilliantly as a team to turn cream into butter. The children were amazed it changed from a liquid into butter milk and spreadable butter that they could eat on some nice fresh bread. Super shaking and team work nursery, our butter was delicious, well done!