Nursery

Where do Ladybirds come from?

Posted on by Little Birds Nursery
Three young pupils from Nursery are pictured creating their own Ladybird models using clay and pipe cleaners. Each of them are wearing red art aprons.
03
May

This week Little Birds have been finding out where ladybirds come from and have looked at their life cycles, comparing it to the life cycles of chicks. We used our knowledge and communication skills to take part in discussions and draw representations of their life cycles.

A young girl from Nursery is pictured smiling for the camera, whilst holding up a picture of a Ladybird she has drawn.

A young boy from Nursery is seen sitting at a desk, drawing a picture of a Ladybird.

A young boy is pictured sat at his desk smiling, whilst holding up a picture of a Ladybird he has drawn.

A young boy from Nursery can be seen smiling for the camera, whilst holding up a picture of a Ladybird he has drawn for the camera.

Little Birds have been looking at the shape of ladybirds and their features; developing our counting and recognition of patterns.

We made ladybird models from clay and other textured materials and resources available in the provision. This supported the development of expressive arts and design.

Two young boys from Nursery are pictured smiling together outdoors, whilst holding up pictures of Ladybirds they have created.

This week’s stories we listened to were ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’, ‘A Good Place’ and ‘The Sharing Shell’.

Some of us chose our favourite stories and nonfiction books from the school library to bring back to the Nursery class for a sharing task with the practitioner.

How do we keep safe at Nursery and around our community?

Little Birds have also been inquiring about how to be safe at Nursery within our environment.

We were good communicators sharing ideas as to how to be ‘Green to go’. Some of us made signs to link with this subject.

A young girl from Nursery is pictured smiling for the camera, whilst holding up two road safety signs she has created in class.
A young boy from Nursery is pictured smiling for the camera, whilst holding up two road safety signs she has created in class.

We enjoyed playing a sorting game of different scenarios: picture cards of safe and unsafe pictures. Little Birds used our thinking skills and knowledge to enable them to be sorted appropriately.

Three young pupils from Nursery are seen sat together on the floor playing with cards based on the topic of road safety.

A small group of pupils from Nursery are seen sat together on the floor playing with cards based on the topic of road safety. They are also smiling for the camera with their thumbs up.

Two young boys from Nursery are pictured playing with some cards on the floor in their classroom.

A young girl from Nursery is pictured chopping up some Tomatoes on a chopping board, using a plastic knife.

A young girl from Nursery is pictured chopping up some Tomatoes on a chopping board, using a plastic knife.

A young boy from Nursery is pictured chopping up some Tomatoes on a chopping board, using a plastic knife.

We were so proud to show our practitioners how safe we can be with the safety knives when cutting tomatoes in the home area kitchen as well as cutting dough with the scissors.

Two young boys from Nursery are pictured sitting opposite each other at a desk, sticking stickers onto pictures of safari animals.
A young boy from Nursery is pictured smiling for the camera, whilst wearing his uniform and holding a pair of scissors the correct way up when walking with them.

Another proud moment at tidy up time.

‘Look I am being safe carrying the scissors!’

Well done!