Space Walking

So sorry for the late post... This one should have actually gone up last week. Thanks for your patience!

This is the rhinoceros beetle we found in the classroom last week. It was pretty big but friendly and we decided to see if we could build a home for it.

We started the week with some sensory art. I like to call this smoosh painting as the class get to use their whole hands to rub, squish and mash the paints together through a film of plastic. It lets kids explore the texture of the paint and how colours mix without the mess! It was great fun and produced some beautiful pieces of art as you can see....

                            

          We used our hands to decorate our Pirate ship....

Which is now everyone's favourite place to chill out with a book

                          


We have been practising counting and recognising numerals often recently and one of the games that the class really enjoy involves hiding a small toy under different numbered tubs and asking the class which one the toy is hidden under. Nursery love to chant "Little mouse, little mouse which number is your house?"
before they start to call out the numbers. As they are getting better and better at it I have to start practising my sleight of hand tricks and they get pretty excited when they are sure THEY know where the mouse is hiding but their friends get it wrong! This is a really simple game to try at home and can entice even the most reluctant of kids to speak up. You can use it practice almost any vocabulary just by changing the picture on top of the tub, just remember to get them to actually say the word BEFORE they lift up the tub :)

This is us making our plaster of Paris hand prints. It was an exercise in patience for Nursery to keep their hands still for a few minutes while the liquid oozed through their fingers ... luckily some of the class managed it!

Time for a trip to the hospital!

As part of our transport them we looked things that fly. The class were really interested in space travel and so we decided to make some balloon rockets. The class saw me drop an empty balloon from the chair and then watched as I filled the balloon with air and asked them to guess what would happen when I let go. Some of the class guessed it would "fly up"  while others thought it would fall down but they were all surprised and excited when it zig zagged everywhere. We talked about what caused the balloon to fly and discovered  it was the air rushing out of the balloon which propelled it through the sky like a rocket.

 Nursery loved counting down to blast off and racing their balloons rockets along the string.

                           

We watched the space walking video by Boogie Beebies and Nursery had fun pretending to be astronauts.

 Here is the link to the video and a few more that the class enjoy...

Space Walking

Kangaroo Song

                          S club 7 Reach for the stars

                                      

Mr Doug's class came in to do some paired reading with Nursery during Library class.

 And we went upstairs for our first ever assembly...Everyone behaved well and listened nicely to the story and announcements.

   And then we came back down to the class room and played a few games to get rid of the wiggles after all that sitting still!

Even though this is the ;last week I of school, this wont be the last NP blog post - I will update again later in the week and say a final farewell to my lovelies....not quite ready to do it yet!
 In the meantime please don't forget to dress up and bring a picnic style snack for our teddy bears picnic on Friday...Hope to see you all there!