Bonfire Night - Nursery

Today the Shooting Stars have begun their new theme for learning with a focus on Bonfire Night and Fireworks! The children were very excited to tell us all about the fireworks they had seen and heard over the last few days. At group time, they learnt the Makaton signs for bonfire and fireworks and they watched some fireworks on the interactive whiteboard. They talked about the colours and the sounds and they enjoyed pretending to be fireworks and blasting off into the sky shouting "boom, bang, wheee, wooosh and pop!" 

Here are some of their provision activities so far this week:
They have been creating firework collage pictures by sticking materials onto black paper using glue. Their focus words were "colourful, bright, sparkly and glittery" and they tried to use these words to describe their pictures. 

In their painting area, they have been creating fireworks using glittery paint to make them sparkle. They tried to create different patterns and used the words "circles, spirals, dots, zig-zags and lines." They used cotton buds to make their patterns which was really good for developing their fine motor control. 

Shooting Stars have also been creating fireworks using chalks in the mark making area. They tried hard to make lots of different patterns!