Children this week have enjoyed designing and making houses using a variety of materials. They have used bricks and tools, sticks and shredded tissue paper. We discovered that the brick house was the strongest, we did this by blowing them and seeing which one was the hardest to blow down. Read more…

The Three Little Pigs

We have been reading the Three Little Pigs in nursery and the children are really enjoying it! They are starting to repeat phrases from the story and answering questions about the story such as, “which house did the wolf blow down?” “which house was the strongest house?”

We Made a large house outside out of the bricks, the children pretended to be pigs and the wolf saying phrases such as “little pig, little pig let me come in!”

The children have also enjoyed making pig faces, independently placing facial features in the correct places.

We have re-enacted the story using the puppets and theatre stand. Also, children have independently re-enacted the story in the home corner and role play areas.

We have had lots of fun so far reading about the Three Little Pigs.

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Learning is fun!

Over the past two weeks in nursery we have been reading ‘Aliens Love Underpants.’ We have used this as a fantastic learning opportunity, discussing colours, shapes, sizes and exploring action words within the story such as ‘woosh!’ and ‘zoom!’ They have loved this story! Children have had lots of fun, Read more…