Nursery Spring 2 Week 2
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 7:29pm
What an exciting week it has been in Nursery!
When we arrived in class on Monday, we discovered a mysterious bag waiting for us. Inside we found a very large shirt, waistcoat, tie, belt and enormous boots! There was also a bag of beans, some gold coins, and even a golden egg. The children were full of curiosity as we wondered who these giant-sized clothes could belong to. Our mystery was soon solved when we discovered the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
As we read the story together, we learned all about how Jack traded the cow for magic beans, and how the beanstalk grew and grew and grew all the way up into the clouds! When we heard the giant’s famous words, “Fee, fie, fo, fum!” we realised that the giant must have been the owner of the huge clothes we found. This sparked wonderful conversations about size, and inspired us to think about things that are big, bigger and enormous.
Our Home Corner was quickly transformed into the giant’s castle, where we made some of our everyday objects much bigger to match the giant’s world. The children loved imagining what it would be like to live in a castle high above the clouds.
In our Small World area, we worked together to create an enormous beanstalk that stretched up through the clouds and almost touched the ceiling! With characters and magic beans to play with, the children have thoroughly enjoyed retelling the story and acting out their favourite moments.
Our Funky Fingers activity focused on building our own beanstalks. Using pipe cleaners, green cereal hoops and leaves, the children carefully threaded and created tall beanstalks. We then used a measuring tape to compare sizes and talk about which beanstalk was taller or shorter.
Our Maths tray also continued the beanstalk theme. The children matched and compared quantities, using the beanstalk to help them visualise different amounts. It certainly felt like our whole classroom had become a wonderful world of beanstalks!
During our Early Listening sessions, we practiced using describing words to identify different objects, and also listened carefully as we matched instruments to their sounds. We have continued developing our awareness of syllables, clapping the beats in words, and the children are becoming increasingly confident with this skill.
In Maths, we recapped the numbers we have learned so far and were excited to move on to exploring the number six this week.
Thursday, we celebrated the wonderful World Book Day. The children loved coming into class with their favourite book and cuddly toy to share. We began the morning by joining with Reception class for a character scavenger hunt, searching for different story characters around our outdoor environment. Once we found them, we had to match each character to the correct book before gathering in small groups to listen to the story together. It was such an exciting and interesting way to start the day.
Back in our classroom, the children enjoyed sharing their own books and some even took turns sitting on the big chair and becoming the teacher, reading their stories to their friends. Throughout the day we read with our teachers and friends and shared our thoughts about our books as well as talk about all the different places we like to read. I have to say, some of the suggestions were very amusing!
We ended the week by reflecting on all the books we have enjoyed and the learning we have done in class so far this year.
What a fantastic week of learning, listening, storytelling and sharing our ideas together!
Warm wishes,
Mrs Grayson and the Nursery team