This week in Nursery, we have experienced runaway chapattis and Monster Trucks!
The children have been learning about 2D shapes and have been matching, sorting and classifying shapes. As part of these investigations we read the story ‘Tip, Tip, Dig,Dig’ and this inspired us to create our own ‘Monster Trucks’. The children’s imaginations were fired and the inventiveness of their ideas and their explanations as to what and how their truck worked, blew us away!
Following of from listening to The Gingerbread Man, we have been reading a similar tale called, ‘The Runaway Chapati’ by Susan and Alan Price. Set in India, it is the story of a little girl who made a chapatti, but it did not want to be eaten! The similarities with the Gingerbread Man helped the children to quickly learn the repeated phrases. We learned how to make chapatis and became experts with using a rolling pin to keep the circle shape needed to fit in the frying pan. The children were given some chapati flour and a recipe sheet so they can make some at home too.
