Happy Birthday to the Queen

Today we have been to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday with our friends and family at a village event at St John's Church.

"Do I look like the Queen?"

Despite the rain we ate our picnic indoors. We each chose something that we liked to take with us to share.

After lunch we watched the children from the two village schools perform songs, play instruments, dance and recite poetry. We joined in singing and flying our flags.

Thank you to Pilling Parish Council for inviting us to your celebration.

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Sparklers display at the Over Wyre Art Display

St John's Church are hosting a display of art from local artists and schools. Sparklers have been invited to have a display for the weekend.

We have used part of our community project to display what we see in Pilling.

The exhibition is held at

 

 St John's Church, School Lane, Pilling, PR3 6AR

 

Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2016, 10am-4pm

"All Aboard"

 The children have built their own train and using their imagination have travelled to The Lake District, Thomas world, The Zoo, the beach and a party which meant we needed to wrap presents before going.

 

Even though going on a train journey was something not many of the children had done they soon shared ideas of what they needed and what would happen.

 

We needed a driver, a horn blower and the person to collect all the tickets ( the whole learning journey was extremely important, at one point no one could get through nursery door without a ticket!)

 

"I'm the driver and X blows the horn when we go in the tunnel"

 

"This is where you can go on the train"

 

Every journey meant a picnic of fruit, sandwiches and drinks.

 

Next half term we will be looking at holidays and the world. If you have any old holiday brochures please can you send them in for us to use. Thank you.

 

Shape, Space and measure

In maths we have been thinking about capacity, weight, length and height in shape, space and measure.


The younger children have been using tools to fill and empty containers using language such as 'full' 'empty' and 'more'. In looking at weight we looked at heavier and lighter user our large scales.

The older children have been estimating (guessing how many) and counting how many spoons, cups, jugs or handfuls it takes to fill different shaped containers. Some children recognised the different numbers on the scales and containers.



Sequencing how to plants seeds.

 

 

The skills learnt were used in planting our seeds and measuring their growth. The children estimated how much compost they would need for pots and tubes, with some saying they hadn't guessed enough so would need so many more.

 







As soon as our sweet peas started to grow through the compost we used the tape measure to measure how tall the plants were, recognising the number and remembering we need to start at 0. We are hoping that before the summer holidays they will be as tall as the big metre ruler with lots of lovely smelling flowers.

Happy birthday

It  is the Queen's 90th birthday and Sparklers have been joining in the fun.

Together we have built our own castles and a new role play castle thinking carefully about the 2D and 3D shapes we have used.

Using tools and equipment safely and with control

Creating a cake and counting all the candles

  Our tea party lunch

 

You can't possibly have a party without cake.

 

Physical Development

As an active nursery strengthening our body is very important.

Let us introduce Maximo. He is our interactive friend who helps us stretch and bend using yoga style moves. We concentrate on our breathing and relaxing while listening to the instructions he gives us.

These are some of our favourite moves.



Propeller

Hungry Flamingo



In the news

Uber Stradle

Hug it out

Strengthening our bodies helps us with our climbing to balance and feel more confident.

 

Looking at music and rhythm

We have been listening to different styles of music from pan pipes, movie soundtracks to Minion dance tunes. We have incorporated these into our dough dancing which has been great fun whilst strengthening our muscles.

Alongside using our own body to move to the rhythm we have used a variety of percussion instruments.
                     We can link the different sounds instruments make to parts in stories.

We enjoy singing and dancing each having our own favourite songs and rhymes we sing together.

There is nothing better than making up our own songs and dances with friends.