This term Lower Nursery is a hive of activity as we investigate all the different ways in which we travel in our world both past and present on camels and horses, in cars, on bikes, buses, trains, boats, in submarines, planes, helicopters and rockets, over and under land and sea, in the air, even in outer space!! We learn about numbers with number plates and buses and it’s “tickets please” as “the wheels on the bus go round and round” and Mr Gumpy takes his motorcar for a drive in our role play area The children interpret this popular children’s story, ‘Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car’ by John Burningham through group and individual art and craft activities and in their role play, creating their own books retelling the story and sequencing their ideas and developmentally writing. They use the magnifying glasses to examine a selection of maps and learn about direction in gym with traffic light games of stop and go! We explore slopes and speed in our block and construction area creating wheeled vehicles, we explore flight with a paper plane investigation to find the best wing shape and explore floating and sinking designing boats and testing them…some may become submarines! During the term we travel down the canal on the Angel II narrow boat in our life jackets, we travel from the Angel Lock at Danbury Street through a long canal tunnel to emerge at St. Pancras Lock. The children identify the birds, coots, moorhens, ducks, drakes and ducklings, even a crane! They help push open the lock gates and have a very exciting day out.