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Mathemagicians

Super snails and much more!

Super snails and much more!

This week we have continued to learn more facts about worms and composting. We started to make a display of what is compostable and which insects we can find in a compost bin. So far we have produced some fantastic worms, fruit flies and snails. We have enjoyed the...

Data Collecting in The Reception Classes

Data Collecting in The Reception Classes

The children have loved learning about pictograms and tally charts. They have spent the week busily finding out their friend’s favourite things and tallying them up to find out their most popular and the least popular. They have used pictograms to find out favourite...

Owls and Robins line up!

Owls and Robins line up!

This week Owls and Robins have been manipulating numbers up to 100. They have been using Base 10 to partition 2 digit numbers and they have also been exploring number lines. Everyone was fantastic at estimating where their number would go on the number line. Well...

Another busy week in nursery!

Another busy week in nursery!

This week we have continued to find out about worms and composting. We shared a non-fiction book about worms and we have learned that worms do not have eyes or teeth, they produce slime to help them move around in earth and they do not have a skeleton! We also found...

Welcome new friends in nursery!

Welcome new friends in nursery!

We have had a lovely first week back after Easter. We welcomed three new friends who have settled into nursery life amazingly well. This half term we are focusing on composting and worms. We read the story, A Worm called Wallace this week which is a fictional story...

Ice investigations in nursery

Ice investigations in nursery

As well as continuing to find out more about Spring, we have been investigating ice this week to participate in Science Week. We completed two different investigations. We compared the look of ice made with water, salt and water, food colouring and water and lemonade....

Shrove Tuesday and much more!

Shrove Tuesday and much more!

This week we have introduced our new topics for this half term which are Spring and baby animals/mammals. We played a mother and baby animal matching game on the interactive white board and shared some topic based stories during snack time. We are looking forward to...

A super Space party in nursery!

A super Space party in nursery!

To conclude our Space topic we consolidated our knowledge of it by having a Space party. We prepared for our party throughout the week. We prepared by designing a placemat to put our party food on. We drew space themed things like rockets, The International Space...

How Many Jelly Beans?

How Many Jelly Beans?

The pupils and staff had a fantastic time celebrating the 25th anniversary of Number Day. We based our maths activities around the story 'How Many Jelly Beans?' The day was filled with fun activities focused on exploring the world of statistics and numbers. The...

Valentine’s Day and much more!

Valentine’s Day and much more!

This week in nursery we have continued to focus on numbers. We completed some fabulous writing to describe what we found during our number hunt last week and we made a display in our classroom. We also discussed Valentines Day and thought about the people that we...

We’re going on a number hunt!

We’re going on a number hunt!

This week we have focussed on numbers. During our maths sessions we participated in small number hunts in our nursery environment both indoors and outdoors. We also talked about the numbers on the doors of our homes and car registration plates. We played number games...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

In nursery this week we have been finding out about Chinese New Year and celebrating it. We thoroughly enjoyed preparing and cooking Chinese stir fry. We demonstrating excellent counting skills by counting the amount of children in our group and giving out the correct...