The Fairytale Fixers nURSERY, Spring Term, Week 2

We started the week by picking up where we left off last week, becoming even more familiar with the story The Three Little Pigs.

"I'll huff and I'll puff..."

Inspired by the pigs’ houses in the story, the children danced to construction music (yes, it’s a thing!), using their bodies to make horizontal and vertical building movements. We then took this learning further, drawing horizontal and vertical lines with chalk — an important pre-writing skill.

Drawing with chalk on dark paper.
With support, the children practised drawing horizontal and vertical lines.
Great mark making (and attempt at name writing!)
Both horizontal and vertical lines.

The Three Little Pigs rang us on the phone to ask for help, and our Fairytale Fixers were ready for the job!

Working together to build a bigger, better, stronger house.
Drawing the plans.
Talking about what the new house might look like.
An interesting diagram showing what happens when the wolf (left) blows on the pig’s (right) house.

We’ve had lots of hands-on experience with materials and building this week. Not many of the children knew what straw was, so they explored it for themselves and quickly discovered that yes — it really isn’t very useful for building houses!

Bricks are much better (and much more fun!).

Miss Davison from Dance City visits us every Thursday. She helped the children dance imaginatively to The Three Little Pigs. Taking turns to huff, puff, and blow the houses down was so much fun!

Another story we’ve dipped our toes into this week is The Gingerbread Man. A big thank you to the parents who came in to help launch this during our Read, Play, Connect session!

Making gingerbread men with play dough.
Adding and counting buttons.
Painting gingerbread men.
Re-telling the story to friends in the story area.

Stories have sparked curiosity, creativity, and fun for us this week. We can’t wait to explore more fairytales next week!

We love reading in Nursery.