Pear Tree had an enjoyable World Book Day promoting our love of reading. The children engaged with different activities linked to some of our favourite books.
As part of our Healthy Eating Week, Nursery pupils took part in an exciting and immersive farm shop experience. The children role-played being shopkeepers and customers, selling and buying real fruits in a carefully set-up farm shop environment. This hands-on activity helped the children learn about staying healthy and the importance of eating a balanced, nutritious diet.
Through this immersive experience, pupils developed a practical understanding of money, linking their learning to early mathematical concepts such as counting, recognising numbers, and exchanging coins. The role play also supported their understanding of the world, as they explored real-life scenarios and responsibilities involved in being both a shopkeeper and a customer.
The learning continued the following day when the children used the fruit they had bought from the shop to make their own fruit kebabs. This activity reinforced healthy eating messages, encouraged independence, and allowed the children to take pride in preparing and enjoying a healthy snack.
Overall, the experience provided meaningful, real-life learning opportunities that supported development across multiple areas while making healthy choices fun and engaging.
Today, the children explored the provision planned by their teachers in Nursery. They engaged in role play, selling ice creams, fruits, and vegetables. Children built friendships through imaginative games, such as constructing towers out of bricks. They developed fine motor skills by scooping and pouring in the sandpit, and supported their cognitive development by solving puzzles. Children also enjoyed reading books in the book corner, learning through pictures and words.
As part of our ongoing learning about the natural world, the children journeyed through different habitats, from leafy woodlands to muddy puddles and grassy clearings. Along the way, they discovered where animals, insects, and birds make their homes, and had the chance to learn and use new vocabulary like burrow, nest, den, offspring and hive.
The day was filled with hands-on learning, storytelling under the trees, and plenty of opportunities for the children to ask questions and share their ideas. They built their own mini-habitats using sticks, leaves, and stones, and even created imaginative stories about the creatures that might live in them.
This week in Nursery, we have been learning about the days of the week, inspired by the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." We discovered that there are seven days in a week by singing a catchy song from Singing Walrus. For our Literacy activities, we ordered the story using pictures from the book, which we glued down independently according to the days.
At our creative table, we engaged in fruit printing, using different fruits to paint over cut-out stencils. It was fun to see how the paint left behind a silhouette when we removed the stencil. Our favourite print was the pineapple!
