This week at Nursery, we introduced our helping hands big question, ‘How can I show that I can listen?’. We enjoyed going on a listening walk around our school grounds, where we learned that we had to be quiet and still to notice and tune into different sounds around us.

As we moved around our school grounds, we heard lots of different sounds, which included birdsong, cars, an aeroplane, a bell ringing, children shouting and a saw on a building site nearby. We showed very careful listening and great excitement as we noticed different sounds around us. We made links to our own knowledge and experiences as we tuned into and named the different sounds. Tuning into environmental sounds is an important part of our phonics learning and will one day help us as we learn to read.

Some of us enjoyed going on listening walks with our families during the half-term holiday. Thank you for joining in with the challenge and sharing with us all of the sounds you heard on your walks!

This week at Nursery, we also explored fireworks as part of our learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night. We listened to different firework sounds and used cardboard tubes to print firework patterns in the night sky.

We also had a go at water painting fireworks on the chalkboard outside. We experimented with creating lines, swirls and splatters with water to represent fireworks in the night sky.