We Are Learning… To Listen to and Re-tell the Story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Linked to our activities around growing and changing , our core book this term is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We will be learning to tell the story in lots of different ways, using props and acting it out.
You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
We’ve even got some real, live caterpillars to watch as they grow and change into cocoons and then butterflies.
We Are Learning… To Prepare, Compare and Taste a Range of Different Foods
We are lucky enough to have weekly visits from The Children’s Kitchen volunteer Claudia this term.
She is going to work with groups of children to explore lots of different healthy foods, learning to use utensils safely and try foods they might not have had before.
We will also be working on our vegetable beds to grow our own.
Claudia will also be running some sessions for parents on Mondays at 2:30pm. Come along with your child at the end of the nursery day and make a tasty snack together.
You can book in at Reception.
We Are Learning… To Notice and Make Sense of Similarities, Differences and Changes in Nature and the Wider World
In the garden we are noticing signs of spring and the changes as plants and trees grow buds and leaves, and flowers and blossom start to appear.
We will be planting a selection of fruit and veg seeds and caring for them in our nursery garden.
This video shows how they will grow.
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/kidney-bean-and-spinach-plants-soil-cross-section-time-lapses
We will also be looking at baby photos and noticing how we have grown and changed.
If you haven’t already sent your child’s baby photo, please email them to speedwell.n@bristol-schools.uk
We Are Learning… To Learn and Use Vocabulary to Describe the Shape, Size and Position of Objects
Our maths focus is spatial reasoning which involves how we understand location (where things are positioned and where they are in relation to other things), dimensions (for example, how long something is or how big something is, and the properties of objects (such as spiky or flat).
We will be practising using words such as over, under and next to, big, bigger, biggest , straight, curved and pointed to describe what we see.
There’s an interesting poster here to explain it further: https://earlymaths.org/spatial-reasoning-toolkit-posters/
