There has been porridge oats flying around everywhere as it was scooped into pots, pans and bowls for the bears and Goldilocks and, of course, plenty for myself and Mrs Sayers too! 

 

The children have been amazing at retelling one of our favourite stories and anticipating what happens next in the story whilst looking at all the illustrations. We also enjoyed the story A Chair for Baby Bear where Baby Bear visits a chair shop to choose a new chair only to find there were none he liked. Thankfully, Goldilocks had left him a perfect new little bear chair on the doorstep when they got home! We had lots of giggling and laughter listening to the story of Goldisocks and the Three Badgers, with the wrong words which the children were fabulous at listening to and identifying which word it should have been instead! 

 

The children loved making their own bear faces for our display and they drew some lovely pictures of the bears and Goldilocks in their Special Books. There have been many cutting activities whilst we were cutting and snipping around pictures to make stick puppets, which we hope you enjoyed at home too! More cutting was involved when the children sorted the pictures of the bowls, chairs and beds for each of the bears. We were very impressed with some super cutting and sorting the objects into the right sizes.

 

Wooden bricks were used to create houses for the bears to live in. It was great thinking to use the triangular ones for the roofs of the houses. And there was a lot of concentration when the children used the tweezers to find the right coloured bears under the masking tape grid, which is great for fine motor skills, colour sorting and turn taking. 

 

On Monday, we went on a hunt to find berries, twigs and leaves to make ice ornaments for the garden. When we returned to Nursery, the children used the scissors (more cutting!) to snip the bigger leaves to place into the pots with the berries and twigs. The children then carefully poured water into the bowls and we placed them on a tray in the garden. The next morning we found our ice ornaments. They were so beautiful, glistening in the sunshine, and we hung them on the tree in the garden. They were still there on Thursday and some had icicles hanging off where the sun had melted them. We cannot believe how cold it must have been for them to stay frozen for so long! We have also seen little robins coming to the garden to eat the oats.

 

The leaf for our Learning and Growing Together tree was awarded in Pre-Prep assembly on Wednesday and this week it was for trying really hard to write the letters of their name, so another huge well done!

 

The children have been  involved in some wonderful imaginative play, whether making ramps for cars, tracks for trains or dressing up with some amazing accessories. We also spotted the rubbish truck arriving at school which is always a highlight of the day.

 

We are looking forward to our story Big Box Little Box next week which is a fabulous story about a cat and a mouse who end up as best friends.