Last week Nursery children were immersed in learning about all kinds boats introduced through our key text “Go Go Pirate Boat”(which is a melodic text that tells a story, to the familiar tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep, drawing on the children’s previous phonic knowledge and helping them to create new Nursery rhymes of their own). We began by focusing on the two boats in our story using pictures to support our understanding, these were a rowing boat and a pirate ship. We noticed the similarities and differences between the boats and unpicked key vocabulary, using physical movements to activate our learning pretending to use or be a sail, a hoist, oars and the plank.
The children made up their own boat themed stories using our tales tool kit resources, thinking of their own problems and solutions of what happened to “Sharon” the mermaid and “Captain Pirate Underpants”. The language, ideas and enthusiasm was infectious! The children worked hard to revisit and recall all of the story using repetition. Great work!
On Wise Wednesday the children were encouraged to think carefully about what other vehicles or vessels go in or on the sea? They went on a gallery walk around Nursery and observed several different vehicles, some which were familiar and others that they didn’t know of, including a kayak, a submarine, a cruise ship, an oil tanker, a fishing trawler, a speedboat and a hovercraft. The children engaged in some thoughtful conversations about the vehicles using clues from the pictures to guess what that type of boat would be used for.
Afterwards the children continued their previous learning of making a list, being encouraged to think of the initial sound of the sea vehicle. Look at out our beautiful drawings.
