This week in Nursery we have been thinking about the time after the dinosaurs became extinct and have been learning about Woolly mammoths, sabre toothed tigers and cave men! Our key text was ’Cave Baby’ by Julia Donaldson. The children looked at cave paintings and we talked about the people who lived in caves hundreds of thousands of years ago and how they decorated their caves with paintings.
We did some Prehistoric phonics and clapped the names of the characters from the story ‘Cave Baby’. We discussed how to break up each word into syllables and clap each one. Using the Little Wandle phonics scheme the children learned the sound ‘b’ and played lots of games to develop their phonemic awareness and oral blending.
In Maths we created a blank number track to jump along. There was a circle at each end of the track to represent a cave, (Cave Baby’s cave and Woolly Mammoth’s cave). The children had fun jumping from one cave to the other. We rolled a large dice and counted the number of steps along the line. The children showed the number of steps on their fingers before they jumped! We also played ‘Action Maths’, where the children rolled a dice. They then picked a card so that they knew what action to do, for example 5 star jumps or 4 hops.
We looked at the spirals inside the ammonites and made large spirals in the air with scarves.
On Friday it was Red Nose Day and the children dressed up and wore funny hair styles! Many thanks for your coin donations which went to support the Comic Relief Charity.
Other activities have included;
Ammonite colouring and drawing spirals. Prehistoric animal colouring. Red Nose Day colouring!
We also played the percussion instruments as we sang along to the song ‘The Prehistoric Animal Brigade’.
Making an Easter chick card, practising our cutting and sticking skills.
