Oats has been flying everywhere as the children made porridge for daddy bear, mummy bear and baby bear and, of course, Goldilocks had her fair share too! The story allows the children to distinguish between the different sounds of the characters' voices using a big, deep growly voice for daddy bear, a high-pitched, squeaky voice for mummy bear and a quiet voice for baby bear. The story gives the children opportunities to join in with the repeated words and phrases and to anticipate events. The children have loved acting out the characters all ready for our Pre-Prep Assembly next week! The children have also been learning our Goldilocks song about the house of the bears. We have also been reading the story of A Chair for Baby Bear and Goldisocks, which is a story with no pictures and lots of funny rhyming words!

Using the porridge oats with different bowls and containers allowed the children to explore sizes of big, medium and small and to use descriptive mathematical language as they fill and empty the bowls, such as more or less. The children have shown some lovely sharing together by taking turns making porridge for the bears and Goldilocks.

The children loved creating their own bear faces for our display by adding big googly eyes, a big black nose and gorgeous soft ears. They also practised their scissor skills, with some amazing independent cutting, to cut around the characters of the story to make stick puppets. We hope you are enjoying using them at home too to retell the story! Using play-dough, the children rolled and shaped it into different shapes and sizes to make ears and bowls for the three bears. We all agreed that daddy bear's ears were the biggest and baby bear's were the smallest!

For our Special Books this week, the children drew faces of bears, which were absolutely brilliant! Using different coloured pens they carefully added eyes, a nose and a smiley mouth. Some of the bears even had eyebrows too!

As we had a sprinkling of snow last week, we thought it would be nice to make our own snowman jars. The children loved spooning the beans and cotton wool snowballs and placing the cotton wool balls into the pots to make their very own snowmen. We would love there to be some more snow so we could all make our own Nursery snowman with real snow.

Our Special Leaf for our Learning and Growing tree this week was for independence in self-care in just one week in Nursery! It is lovely to see all the new children so settled in Nursery, enjoying all the experiences and activities and playing and learning together.

In Nursery, the children have enjoyed choosing their favourite activities, including looking after the baby dolls, making huge train tracks, counting out gemstones and playing King of the Castle and football games in the garden. We had a visit to the pirate ship on the Paddock and had lots of fun exploring the apparatus at our gym session. In our music sessions with Misss Norford the children have been learning about turn taking with ring games such as Listen, Listen Here I Come and sharing suggestion of different parts of our bodies in the song Hey Mr Wind.