Nursery: Can you use positional language to guide someone to the treasure?

This week in Nursery, we have been reading ‘10 Little Pirates’ by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty. All the children have been pretending to be pirates and have made their own props using various materials and tools. Of course, the most exciting thing about being a pirate is going on a treasure hunt! This gave the children a purposeful opportunity to practise their mark making skills because to find treasure you need treasure maps. We talked about the fact that when we see treasure maps in stories they look old, usually because they have been hidden for a long time. So before we drew our maps, we experimented with different ways to make our paper look old; we discovered that tea bags are really good at staining paper. Once the children had drawn their maps, we used positional language to explain how to find the treasure for example “it is next to the tree”. Some children really tested their geography skills by drawing real maps of the Nursery environment and could then explain how to find the treasure. In Maths, we have been using five frames and finding different ways to make numbers to five.