Following on from the story of Goldilocks, we have been matching spoons to bowls, and then bowls and beds to bears! Between them the children came up with a variety of size-related vocabulary including 'big, little, small, tiny, medium, smaller, smallest, bigger and biggest'! Some of the children were also able to order the bowls and the beds from the biggest to the smallest. Can you remember which bed was 'just right' for Goldilocks? We have invited our favourite teddy bears to join us for a special party next week - can you guess what we are going to have to eat? Take a look next week and see if you were right!
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This week we have ben sharing different versions of the traditional tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' As we reflected on the story, Conor told us "The rules were, don't go into the woods because it's full of scary big bears" The children had lots of fun trying to spot all the bears that were hiding behind the trees! Fern recalled "Goldilocks sat on Baby's chair" and when asked what happened next she said "It broke!" I asked why it might have broken and Fern replied "Because it was too small". Fern then told us "She went in the bedroom to try Daddy Bear's bed". Can you remember what else happened in the story? We talked about some of the things that Goldilocks had done wrong and the children have been helping her to write some letters of apology to the Bears! We have been having lots of fun pretending to be different characters from the story as we played in our new Fairytale Forest and Forest Cottage! Which character would you like to be? Can you remember what happened in the story?
Perhaps you could think of a new character or a different ending! We have been thinking about the different distinguishing features that the wolf had in the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children then chose three of their own to write on their 'WANTED!' poster, along with drawing a picture of the wolf for everyone to look out for! There were lots of other great suggestions for his different features including a hairy tummy, googly eyes and a furry nose! How would you have described him? Let us know!
This week, following on from reading different versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story, we have been baking some delicious cookies for Grandma! After washing our hands and putting our aprons on, we talked about the different equipment that we would need. We then weighed our ingredients before mixing them together, making predictions and discussing the changes that were taking place at various stages. Once the children had shaped their cookies, they carefully placed five raisins on the top before they went in the oven to bake! We have been thinking about some of the different types of healthy food that Little Red Riding Hood might put on her list to buy for Granny next time she goes shopping . . . We often enjoy apples, bananas or carrots for our own snack time - what other types of healthy fruit and vegetables do you enjoy? What would you have taken for Granny? Let us know!
Little Red Riding Hood has different items in her basket to take to Grandma depending on the particular version of the story - in some of them, she takes home baked cookies. For one of our activities this week, the children have been taking turns to pick a numeral from the basket and then drawing the corresponding number of raisins on their own cookie . . . We used the number line to help where required and then sequenced the cookies from
one to five, according to how many raisins they each had! This term we are going to be having a focus on traditional tales.
We started with Little Red Riding Hood and as we were reading this version, Ivy-Jean jumped up and excitedly exclaimed "I see a wolf! Behind the tree, he's hiding" (Why might he be hiding?) "Because he's going to eat the apples!" After we had finished the story we reflected on what had happened and Isabelle told us "The big bad wolf went in Grandma's bed" (Why did he do that?) "Cause he was 'tending to be Grandma" (What did he do?) "Scare Little Riding Hood!" When talking about the end of the story, Emily told us "The Little Red Riding Hood gave her Granny a hug" (Why did she do that?) "Because she loved her!" And we loved this story! The school focus for our 'Big Feeling' this half-term is 'anger' and this week we have read the story of 'The Angry Alien'. After talking about what can make us feel angry sometimes, and what we can do to help alleviate these feelings, we tried to make an 'angry face' . . . Everyone decided that we would prefer to see our usual 'smiley' faces instead! It's good to know however, that if someone does experience feelings of anger, we will be there
to support each other and help our friends to feel calm and happy again. This week we have introduced our new Darwin focus - Bouncebackability - building the capacity to bounce back from a setback - resilience overcoming failure. The children have been thinking about how they could challenge themselves to keep practising to be able to complete a physical goal such as throwing and catching a ball for an increased number of times without dropping it, or rolling a hoop along an increased distance etc. Here are just a few of their ideas . . . Rolling the ball to try and knock the skittle down Perhaps you could set yourself a challenge too - try and improve your own resilience - keep going and try to 'bounce back' from any setbacks that you might have!
We hope that you have all managed to stay safe and well over the Christmas period, and on behalf of everyone at Nursery we would like to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year!
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