Carwash!

We have been experimenting with texture and making impressions in playdough this week. We looked at and named different shapes and discussed what objects were round, square shaped etc, before attempting to make some vehicle shaped prints together. The class had some fun exploring the different imprints they could make and how some shapes fit together  

We used our sponge print cut outs to build submarines piece by piece, a few of the class remembered  the parts we had talked about such as the propellers and the periscope  and they were all able to create some great looking underwater craft!

We have introduced some pre-writing skills into our dice games. Nursery are still enjoying rolling the dice and getting some counting practice in but now they are challenged a little further to recognise the correct numeral and race down the road following the correct formation. This is a great way to get the boys especially to practice pre-writing skills, similar to tracing but a whole lot more fun! 

  The class really loved making their name trains and have been becoming more aware of the letters in their own names with some of the class pointing out familiar letters around the class. We drew some lines to make the train tracks and then we used our name tags to help us to place the letter carriages in order to spell our names. 

 

 The car wash sensory play activity was a big hit! Nursery loved using the syringes and spray bottle to hose down the vehicles before scooping up lots of lemony scented foam and covering them all in lots and lots of bubbles! The class really worked together, sharing resources and co operating to get all those cars, bikes and buses squeaky clean...