Snowflakes

This week the children have been learning about snowflakes.

 

In Maths we counted the points on a snowflake and found that all of them had 6 points. We also found out that no two snowflakes are the same. The children have been getting the idea of repeating patterns making them with the bead strings and pegs and drawing them with coloured pens.

 

This week we did an experiment to try and make snow. The children loved seeing what would happen when we mixed the bicarbonate of soda and the shaving foam to make snow and described how it looked -'like marshmallow and jelly' and felt - 'sticky and squidgy'.

 

We used our fine motor skills to thread some snowflake shapes.

 

Morning Nursery went to Celebration Assembly and sat and listened really well. Mrs Byrne came to read a story to morning Nursery  as Adam asked her to come.

 

We've had a lot of fun learning about snow, singing the snowflake song, painting and printing snowflakes and cutting them out. We were also very interested in a non-fiction book about snow. Afternoon Nursery liked finding about animals camouflaged by the snow.

 

Next week we are going to be learning about colour and pattern. On Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning we are going to St. Luke's sensory room. If anyone can help on this trip please let a member of staff know if you haven't already done so.

 

Next week our sound of the week is 'g'.

 

We will be learning a song about a Peacock.