The children have loved listening to the story of Mouse and Bear finding their way to the moon using mouse’s Marvellous Moon Map. They drew some wonderful maps of their favourite places including a walrus seaside, a garden map and a map of a town! They then looked at a globe and Google Earth to find places including Africa, Germany and Russell House School.

We saw the Nursery garden, the car park and the roads and trains near the school, so we then created a wonderful small world using tracks, bricks and lots of vehicles! The children spent so much time using fantastic thinking skills to create the road for the cars, buses and fire engines and the longest train track with bridges for the engines and carriages.

The bricks were used to create a town with a toys shop and parking for the bus and cars - what a busy creative time! The children wanted to carry on adding to the train track after our snacks and we all decided to leave it out for the children to play with in the afternoon too!

We have been looking at road maps and deciding what we can see including motorways, rivers, parks, the sea  and farms. The children then carefully cut around pictures of different vehicles and put them onto the map where they thought they should be - submarines and boats in the sea and planes and helicopters flying across the roads and fields.