Autumn is the season of change and this week we have been exploring the changing colours we see during this time of year.

We found, sorted and chose our favourite autumn colours using a selection of red apples, orange pumpkins, yellow corn and dried wheat, purple plums and grapes and brown acorns, conkers and sycamore seeds; all the colours we can see in the changing autumnal leaves.

Inspired by the books, ‘Mouse Paint’, by Ellen Stoll Walsh and ‘Mix it Up’, by Hervé Tullet, we experimented mixing primary colours together to create secondary colours with our hands, creating colourful handprint works of art for the wall. We then explored what happens when we mixed all the primary colours together, creating brown!

The Colour Monsters came back to nursery this week. We discussed how colours make us feel and the children helped sort the monster’s feeling into their colour jars.

In the number room, we focused on number three and the colour red. Goldilocks and the Three Bears moved into the doll’s house where the children re-enacted the fairy tale and created their own stories.

Our nook under the stairs became the Little Red Hen’s kitchen. The children dressed up and baked delicious loaves of bread.

In the letter room we looked at the many wonderful animals, objects, friends and food all beginning with the sound ‘a’. Apples were the focus this week as we looked at the yearly cycle on an apple tree. We cut apples in half to find the hidden star inside before taste testing the crisp and crunchy fruit. The children drew and cut out their own apples to hang on, or fall from, our apple tree. On Friday we all made tasty apple tarts to take home.