Space 17.3.14

This week is are last focused week on space we have been really busy finishing off activities and making, picking up on the last of the children's interests in this area. The children where interested in the star formations, so using star stickers we placed them on a piece of paper before using our pencil to join the stars up focusing on pincer grip and control over the pencil. 

We have also been completing some independent writing in reception by listing items we would take with us to space, children worked hard in this activity to listen to the sounds in each word before attempting to write it. 

This week in our cooking activity we made alien jelly using our senses to describe the taste and smell of the jelly we made lime jelly for the slime and we placed a variety of fruits in for the aliens. The children loved this activity especially eating the jelly. 

At the beginning of the week both classes made telescopes using paper, scissors, glitter and scelotape children found cutting the scelotape and rolling the paper difficult but with a bit of help and determination all children where able to complete one. 

Finally this week nursery have been practising writing there numbers using the number rhyme sheet. We cut out and glued a rocket at the top of our paper before using the number lines to write numerals 1-10. Children enjoyed this activity and made some really good attempts and writing numerals they weren't confidant with.