This week has had a large maths focus and what better way to celebrate the run up to the Easter Holidays than with a good old Easter egg hunt! We read the story, ‘We’re going on an Egg Hunt’ by Laura Hughes, then went outdoors to hunt those eggs down. We used 5 frames to indicate how many we had found and how many were still hidden – we are SMASHING (pun intended!) subitising!

Indoors we have played board games around an Easter theme which is helping us to learn to move and count forward. To make this even more egg -citing we played a ‘human board game’! We became Easter rabbits and had to hop along the giant-sized board to the finish line – where baskets filled with chocolate eggs were waiting – now there is an incentive to learn all about maths 😉

And finally, we have been learning all about repeating patterns. Our resources of course had an Easter theme and these helped us to understand the concept of copying, continuing and creating our own patterns which repeat.

A simple pattern is called an AB pattern such as rabbit/carrot/rabbit/carrot/rabbit/carrot.

Some children were able to do repeated patterns that were a little more complicated such as AA BB patterns or even AA B AA B AA B etc.

Wishing all our families and friends, a Happy Easter from us all at Raddlebarn Nursery – a great place to play and learn!