Space and the start of Forest School

Over the last 2 weeks, Bumblebees have been on a mission. When they came in one morning, they noticed that an alien spaceship had landed. Being naturally curious, they were keen to find out what was going on. They couldn't believe their eyes when they discovered that aliens have been stealing pants from planet Earth...

To find out who stole the pants and what the stolen items looked like, they needed to learn about patterns so often found on underwear...

Bumblebees enjoyed printing patterns, too!

 

 Once they got to grips with patterns, they reported the stolen undergarments to the police!

To find out where the cheeky aliens came from, Bumblebees needed to find out about the planets in our solar system. They enjoyed learning songs and spinning around the sun!

A week later, our learning moved on from stolen pants to alien tea on  the planet Zum Zee. This involved thinking about different types of food we could take with us. One of the favourites was a strange looking, gloopy, jelly like substance...

In maths, the children found out what happens to the number of food items during meals...They enjoyed learning songs about '1 less' and acting them out. Have a look at what happened to 10 green bottles:

One of the highlights of last week was the first session of Forest School!

The children quickly learned the forest school rules and had a lot of fun exploring different areas.

Take a look at some creatures Bumblebees discovered...

Thank you to parents and carers for your support with Forest School. We are looking forward to more adventure as we continue to explore the magic of nature.

Nursery rhymes

This week, Bumblebees have been learning about nursery rhymes. They began the week with putting the kettle on with Miss Polly in order to have some tea and cake!

In maths, they practiced counting just the right number of sugars and learned to work out the total if they added 1 more.

They extended this learning to cakes, too!

After all this fun, they even did the washing up...

One of the other nursery rhymes we learned was 'Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall'.

We had a fantastic discussion about who Humpty Dumpty was and what could have made him fall off the wall. We even tried to put a real egg on a pretend wall to help us decide and then talked about what we could use to put him back together again. 

The children, subsequently, enjoyed retelling the nursery rhyme and making Humpty Dumpty fall over and over again!

Bumblebees also liked recording themselves singing nursery rhymes using talk pads and making their own music. 

And just look at how hard they worked to build different types of walls both in the classroom and outside.

At the end of the week, the children took part in a book swap and enjoyed being read to by the older pupils who came down to the nursery. Hip, hip, hooray to the World Book Day!