Our Roaring Week in Nursery!

It has been a prehistoric adventure this week as we dived deep into the world of dinosaurs! Here is a look at what the children have been up to:

Expressive Arts & Design 
The children have been getting messy and creative! We used sponges to create colourful dinosaur prints, experimenting with different textures. We also investigated dinosaur tracks by dipping toy dinosaurs in paint and "stomping" their feet across paper to see the different patterns they left behind. 

Literacy & Communication

• Using our Tales Toolkit, we created an epic dinosaur story! The children chose a dinosaur as our main Character, a volcano or a forest as our Setting, a stuck egg or the arrival of a T. Rex as our Problem, and we enjoyed coming up with our own ideal as our Solution. It was wonderful to hear their vocabulary grow as they narrated their own adventures. 

Maths
This week was all about consolidating our understanding of measurement. We’ve been busy:

• Length: Comparing the sizes of different dinosaurs (who is the tallest and who is the shortest?).
• Capacity: Filling containers in the water tray to see how much "swamp water" different prehistoric creatures needed.

Religious Education 
This week, we explored the wonderful news that "Jesus is Alive!" using the story "God’s Wonderful Surprise". We talked about how Jesus’ friends were very sad, but then received the best surprise ever when they found the tomb empty. The children enjoyed: 

• Acting out the story and shouting, "He is Risen!"
• Singing different  songs and rejoicing.

Phonics
This week we introduced the 'i' phoneme. We’ve been practising the short "i" sound found at the beginning of words like insect, igloo, and ink. 

• Action: We’ve been pretending to be "itchy insects," wiggling our fingers like legs and saying, "i-i-i-itchy!".
• Formation: When writing the letter, we use the phrase: "Down the inventor's body and a dot his idea"