Nursery - Learning About Sheep

This week in Nursery we have continued to talk about our new theme of farm animals and have been concentrating on sheep.
The children have engaged in a number activity involving a game with dice, cotton wool balls and two pictures of sheep. The children were encouraged to count the number of dots on the dice and place the same number of white pompoms onto the sheep.
We listened to the story of 'noisy farm' and using the animal puppets the children were encouraged to talk about the animals and their young.
The children enjoyed shearing sheep using shaving foam, pictures of sheep and mark making scrapers. Then we made tractor marks in different coloured paints across paper.
Finally the children had fun in a physical activity with white balloons representing sheep, using paint splatters they herd the sheep into their pen.