This week’s theme at the nursery is farm animals. Therefore, myself and the children spent the day talking about and naming farm animals.

I worked in small group of 3 (E, O, J). the focus in this group with based around language and pronunciation. We completed some Montessori activities which involved the children playing around with photographs of animals and differentiating whether they live in the sea, air or on land. Whilst doing this, J (child aged 3) told me “Miss, I have fish at home and they live in water. So that means that fishes live in the sea”. He then started reaching for all the animals that had water in the pictures background.

Holt (1989) argues that if a child chooses to watch and listen to an adult, they will begin to make connections between experiences and therefore be intrigued to learn.

The director of the nursery came up to me during the day and said that she was happy with my progress and she wanted to me to be more open with the children and perhaps create my own activity for the children to complete.