Nursery
Willington Prep - Celebrating 140 years - 1885-2025
Nursery
Welcome to our penultimate week.
The Nursery has had a busy first half of the week learning about the very exciting life cycle of a Butterfly. We looked at pictures and illustrations and the children found it amazing that a Butterfly emerged from a caterpillar.
The children studied in detail each stage of the cycle: an egg, caterpillar, cocoon and eventually a butterfly.
Each child was able to independently complete their own life cycle worksheet which reinforced their understanding of the cycle.
The much loved story The Hungry Caterpillar has also been told this week in many forms via puppets, book, storyboard and the interactive board.
Our much anticipated trip to the Wetland Centre was an enormous success, it gave the children the opportunity to spend a full day of outdoor learning with opportunities to discover new activities such as making their own bird nests using natural materials within the wetland environment and learning that each species of bird needs a different sized nest. We explored the marvellous mud kitchen and the children made the most of the utensils creating pasta and soups. The bird watching tower with real grown up binoculars was a huge hit as the children marvelled at being able to see far and beyond. The outdoor adventure playground proved an amazing opportunity to burn off some excess energy before settling down to an outdoor picnic lunch.
Back at school, Mrs Mahmoud created an outdoor mud kitchen inspired by the Wetlands centre which the children all loved - playing cooking with real pasta pieces and rice.
The Caterpillar and Butterfly activities continued into mid week with the children helping to make Green playdough with Googley eyes to create Caterpillars.
For maths we also continued the caterpillar theme using circles to stick on paper to see how many we needed to make each Caterpillar.
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