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 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 ‘l’ 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 in something red and bought in a coin donation to support the Comic Relief Charity.
Other activities have included;
Making an Easter chick card and thinking about Easter. We watched CBeebies ‘My First Festivals’ where the children celebrated Easter.
We have also introduced British Science Week. Each day the children are looking outside and thinking about the weather and choosing the correct picture on our Weather chart. We have been outside and talked about Spring, looking at the Spring flowers, such as daffodils and hyacinths and the buds on the trees and have compared this to what we saw on our Autumn walk, where we played with the leaves!
Measuring the short, medium sized and long snakes.
Spring colouring, Ammonite colouring and Red Nose Day colouring!
We also played the percussion instruments as we sang along to the song ‘The Prehistoric Animal Brigade’.
