Our focus book last week was Jack and The Beanstalk. We spent the week learning about how beans grow. We planted our own beans in the classroom and are patiently watching them. We investigated green beans and runner beans using great fine motor skills to cut them open and find out what’s inside. In maths we have been exploring height and learned all about ‘tall’ and ‘short’. We size ordered the class and found out who was the tallest and shortest. We also enjoyed retelling the story by using stick puppets and role playing in ‘Jack’s house’.

This week we have read The very hungry caterpillar, and we have some wriggly little visitors in Nursery, we cannot wait for them to form into chrysalis’ and transform into butterflies.

The children have been practising their funky fingers by threading coloured beads on to caterpillar bodies and using their chopping skills to cut fruit to make kebabs. We have enjoyed making junk modelling caterpillars and using water colours to create our own beautiful butterflies.

With the lovely weather we have had, we have introduced our new sand pit outside. The children have absolutely loved this and are playing so nicely, taking turns and gaining some independence by taking their shoes and socks off and putting them on all by themselves.