Nursery Financial Fortnight 04/04/2014

Language, Literacy & Communication

We had lots of hen and spring animal stories this week to link with our Easter enterprise craft.

The children talked in groups to consider “What should we call the egg cup? What could we put inside it? Who could we give it to?”

We had some fabulous ideas and the children voted for the product to be called “Happy Hen egg cups”

Mathematical Development

We have been looking at coins this week for financial fortnight. We had a coin treasure hunt and then placed them on the correct picture to match them, we have made patterns in playdough by pushing the coins into it and we have sung “Five currant buns in a baker shop”

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

I asked the children “What is Easter?” and unsurprisingly, most children talked about how the Easter Bunny leaves us lots of chocolate eggs. WE then looked at a book which showed us how a family celebrated Easter by going to church and having special family meals.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

 Linking with financial fortnight, the question on our thinking wall this week was “Having no money is good/bad because….”

Creative Development

We made Happy Hen egg cup gifts for financial fortnight – thank you for bringing in your old egg boxes to enable the children to create these cute little gifts – You can buy them on Tuesday as part of our Easter enterprise fair.

Physical Development

We continued to practice our throwing and catching skills in a large circle and the children are improving greatly.

We have also done lots of dancing in the classroom to Sticky Kids songs.

Welsh Language Development

Tedi Twt wanted us to match baby animals with their mothers. We sang the song below and had lots of fun making the animal noises!!

“Buwch (cow) ydw i, buwch ydw i, moo, moo, moo, moo, buwch ydw i”

“Dafad (sheep) ydw i, dafad ydw i, baa, baa, baa, baa, dafad ydw i”

“Iar (hen) ydw i, iar ydw i, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, iar ydw i”

Anything else!

We hope you enjoyed the Easter bonnet parade – it is always a fun event and a chance for parents to show off their creativity!!
This weekend, use the Fairtrade logo, which the children have brought home, to be Fairtrade spotters. The children can take it with them when you go shopping this weekend and find the logo on items in the shop. Look in the baking aisle, tea and coffee aisle and the chocolate aisle. Let us know how you get on as we will be doing more Fairtrade activities on class next week!