Nursery 3s read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears when focusing on traditional tales! The children then sorted the bears accurately into small, medium and large!

The Nursery 3s children have practiced their fine motor control, their counting and their number recognition. The children used either the tweezers or the chop sticks to pick up the objects and place the correct amount of objects into the numbered box.

The Nursery 3's have enjoyed a game of number lotto. They were able to use one to one correspondence to match the pictures and find the matching numeral! 

Nursery 3's enjoyed sorting different shapes objects into the correct shape area. They were able to identify the different shape names and talked to each other about where to put what shape! 

The Nursery 3's children spent a while drawing around the 2D shapes. They talked about the different shape names, sizes of the shapes and colours!

The Nursery 3s children enjoyed creating Autumn potions! There was lots of tipping, pouring, scooping and mixing taking place! They each used language linked to capacity such as “full” and “empty,” as well as mathematical vocabulary such as “more” and “heavy!”

Nursery 3's had to roll the dice and collect the matching number of objects.
The children were patient and waited their turn,
Together they counted in sequence and practiced subitizing the dots on the dice.
We talked about how many more objects we needed from the box.

Following the topic of Holi, the festival of colour and Spring, the Nursery 3's children enjoyed using the parachute and cones to colour sort the compare bears and animals. The children were able to independently identify each colour and match it with the colours on the parachute. The children showed skills in their team work and were able to share the bears and work together.

Whilst focusing on Julia Donaldson stories Nursery 3's read ‘Superworm’ - the children really enjoyed this one! After reading the story they created our own superworms with playdough. The children used vocabulary such as “big” “small” “longest” “shorter” when talking about and comparing their worms. They were encouraged to measure their worms using cubes, tape measures and rulers!

The Nursery 3's children enjoyed reading different Julia Donaldson stories throughout the week leading up to world book day. The first story we read was The Gruffalo. The children then made their own Gruffalo crumble. They helped to chop up and measure out the ingredients, stir the mixture, colour sort the smarties and decorate our traybake!

The Nursery 3s children have practiced their fine motor control, their counting and their number recognition. The children used either the tweezers or the chop sticks to pick up the objects and place the correct amount of objects into the numbered box.

The Nursery 3's children enjoyed a shape sort! They looked at different shaped objects from around our classroom and sorted them into the correct shape. Most of the children were able to confidently name each shape! 

When focusing on the story 'don't hog the hedge' the Nursery 3s children were able to confidently match amount to number by clipping pegs on to hedgehogs. 

Nursery 3s developed their fine motor skills by using the tweezers and pegs to count out pom poms on to the numicon. This helped to develop their fine motor skills, as well as one to one correspondence and counting in rote. 

During World Nursery Rhyme week Nursery 3s learned the rhyme 'BINGO.' The children then enjoyed a game of number bingo. The children were able to subitize some numbers to three and find the correct matching numeral!

After singing 'one, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive' during world Nursery Rhyme Week the Nursery 3's children focused on numbers to five. The children identified each number on the fish, then counted out the correct amount of 'fish eggs.' Some of the children were able to subitise the eggs to three!

On day two of 'World Nursery Rhyme Week' the Nursery 3's children enjoyed singing 'one, two, three, four, five, once  caught a fish alive.' They then fished for and identified numbers in the 'fishing pond.' 

Nursery 3's created potions in the 'Witch's Kitchen' during Halloween. They experimented with colour changing and adding bicarbonate soda to make them bubble, discussing what was happening when they did so. The children used mathematical language such as 'full' 'heavy' and 'more' throughout their play. 

The Nursery 3's children identified numbers up to 10 on spooky ghosts, with support from the adults. They then correctly matched the same amount of pegs to the number, developing their pincer grip and fine motor skills at the same time! 

Nursery 3's made salt dough to create their own Halloween decorations. They measured out and mixed the ingredients, then molded their dough into a ball. The children then used string to make indentations in the dough to create a pumpkin design. 

Nursery 3s took part in some colour sorting. They were all able to take turns when throwing the colour sorting dice and select the correct colours. We talked about which groups had the most and which had the least, counting the objects using one to one correspondence to check our answers!

Nurdery 3's enjoyed playing with a loose parts Rangoli pattern tuff tray. They used the loose parts to count, subitise and sort!

The Nursery 3's children spent a long period of time creating Rangoli patterns using different sized buttons. Each child developed their fine motor skills by picking up the buttons to put them in certain places on the Rangoli pattern template. Whilst working the children discussed the different buttons they were using, talking about their properties.

Nursery 3s created Autumn potions and were able to talk about capacity, using language such as full and empty. They also independently used mathematical language such as 'heavy' and 'bigger' during their play! 

Nursery 3's have been identifying numbers 105, then counting out the correct amount on to ten frames using one to one correspondence! 

Nursery 3s enjoyed baking shortbread for the Macmillan coffee morning. They helped to measure out the ingredients and used mathematical language such as 'heavy' 'more' and 'less.' 

Nursery 3s were able to confidently sort the sortinng bears into 'big' 'medium' and 'small' when learning about 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' 

Nursery 3s showed an interest in the 'Gingerbread Man' traditional tale and wanted to bake their own! The children helped to measure out the ingredients and used lots of mathematical language such as 'more' and 'heavy.' The children also counted out the Gingerbread men to make sure none of them tried to escape our oven! 

In Reception we have been practicing our number formation.