Nursery - Spring 2 Week 4

Date: 19th Mar 2026 @ 5:22pm

What a busy, imaginative and joy-filled week it has been in Nursery!

Our focus story this week has been ‘The Enormous Turnip’, and the children have thoroughly enjoyed immersing themselves in the tale. We spent time getting to know the characters and thinking carefully about the sequence of events, joining in with repeated phrases and retelling the story together with great enthusiasm.

Inspired by the story, our small world area was transformed into the farmer and his wife’s farm. The children used their creativity to extend the story beyond the book, growing not only turnips but also sprouts, corn, potatoes, carrots, little onions and many more! It has been wonderful to see the children developing their storytelling skills through imaginative play.

As we reflected on the story, we made some thoughtful links to our SHINE characters. We talked about how all the characters who helped to pull the turnip worked together, just like our SHINE friend, Buddy, who is always kind, helpful and ready to support and serve others. The children also discussed how the farmer shared the enormous turnip at the end, showing his gratitude to everyone who helped him. This reminded us of Mo, who shows appreciation and kindness to others. These conversations helped us think about teamwork, kindness and the importance of helping one another.

In PE, we continued with our dance focus, moving in a variety of ways to music inspired by ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The children loved becoming different characters such as the giant, Jack, the cow, the harp and the hen. There were even moments where we had to quickly scurry around the castle and hide! We ended our session with the ever-popular ‘Sleeping Bunnies’, which brought lots of smiles and laughter.

In Maths, we have been exploring weight, focusing on the concepts of heavy and light. The children had great fun using objects from around the room to compare and predict which might be heavier or lighter, developing their reasoning skills through hands-on exploration.

Our time at Forest School has been full of discovery. We noticed the changing landscape and environment, recognising that we are now in spring, and enjoyed listening carefully to birdsong around us. This week, we took a closer look at trees, particularly their trunks and bark. The children loved tree hugging and, with a partner, created bark rubbings. Back in the classroom, we shared our creations and explored making rubbings using different objects such as boxes and coins, which created some particularly interesting effects.

During Early Listening, we began with a ‘chatter box’ filled with objects and items linked to Easter. This sparked some lovely discussions about how Easter is celebrated in our homes, with many children excitedly sharing their love of chocolate! We have since created a class Easter tree and have been very busy making Easter cards and taking part in a range of seasonal activities.

It was finally time to send our ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ beans home, as many had grown very tall! Please do continue to share updates on your child’s bean through Tapestry - we love celebrating these moments together in class.

We have also continued to observe our class bean experiment and discovered some fascinating results. The bean kept in the dark turned completely white, while the one in water expanded to quite a size. Our bean placed in pink water turned pink itself, but interestingly, so did the roots but not the growth! These observations led to lots of curious thinking and questions about why this might be.

Our newly sown seeds are growing well, and some will soon be ready to plant outside, alongside the kindly donated flowering bulbs. We are very excited to continue watching them grow.

On Friday, we celebrated Red Nose Day, and from beginning to end, the day was filled with laughter, excitement and giggles. The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in all the fun activities, including a 'giggle' show - it was wonderful to see their confidence shine!

May the laughter continue into your weekend! Keep looking after those beans, and if you can, have a go at making some interesting rubbings at home - we would love to see what you discover.

Warm wishes,

Mrs Grayson and the Nursery team