If ”Sam Plants a Sunflower” then why can’t we? So, we did. We learned that a seed needs warmth, sunny light, and water and food from the soil to grow. The weather couldn’t have been any better this week, so we got to work we filled a plant pot with soil and carefully placed our sunflower seed in before covering it with a little extra soil. We placed the inside our classroom near the window and at the end of every day, we make sure we remember to give them some water.
Our number for this week was the number 5. We spent some extra time finding and recognizing 5, indoors and out, and caught lots of number fish to match to their number mats.
We are so good at our phonics rhyming now that we were ready to learn how to play rhyming SPLAT-that was tricky but fun. And do you know that we are getting so good with our phonics letter sounds that we can almost read our “Pat on the Back” song words by using our giant letter flash cards.
PAT-TOP-SIT-TAP.
Mrs. Horsely let us borrow her big K’Nex box and we really let our imaginations go. Jacob made his very own spinning top. Everyone was so impressed that they asked him to teach them how to make one too and loved testing them out together.
Last on our list of challenges was our special treats for Mother’s Day and boy, did we rise to the challenge with our observational painting and sweet biscuit treat-hope the treats made it past the school gate.
We have had another wonderful week in Nursery!
Our story over the next couple of weeks is Sam Plants a Sunflower. We have been learning all about the lifecycle of a sunflower and what sunflowers need to grow. Next week we will be planting our own sunflower. I was super impressed with the children’s observational drawings of a sunflower on the interactive board. We have also been making sunflowers out of stickle bricks.
Our sound of the week is o. The sounds that we have covered so far are m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g and o!
In maths, we have been learning all about the number 4 and the different ways that we can represent number 4. We have also continued our learning on repeating patterns.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed junk modelling using different resources and what fantastic creations they made.
We had a brilliant time in the hall working on our gross motor skills. We balanced on beams, jumped off equipment and used the ladders to step in each section. Our favourite part was playing with the parachute!
In the wildlife garden, we enjoyed making a bug hotel for all of the creatures to live in.
Have a lovely weekend!
Many thanks,
Mrs Cook
We have had another exciting week in Nursery!
Our story this week is called Plants Feed Me as we have been learning all about fruits and vegetables and where they come from. We peeled, chopped and tasted a variety of different fruits and vegetables from the story. The children enjoyed using the torches to find out which fruits and vegetables were hiding behind the card. We have also been exploring with the water coloured paints and colour mixing to make orange!
In maths, we have been learning all about the number 4. We collected groups of 4 objects in circle time.
The children have strengthened their gross motor skills by using the different equipment on the big yard. We have also been learning about the importance of brushing teeth by using the big teeth and toothbrushes.
I am super proud of the children for their name writing. If you could continue this at home, that would be brilliant.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
I hope you all had a wonderful half term holiday.
We have had a very busy and exciting first week back!
Our new topic is Ready, Steady, Spring. We will be focusing on how to keep healthy and growing plants. Our story this week is This is How We Keep Healthy. We have been talking about the importance of brushing our teeth, washing our hands, exercising and healthy eating.
Our new role play area is a doctor’s surgery and what fun we have had. As you can tell by the pictures, the children have had a fantastic time pretending to be doctors, nurses and patients in the doctor’s surgery.
On Tuesday, we celebrated Pancake Day. The children chose their topping, spread the topping on the pancake, cut the pancake and then ate the pancake. Mmmmm!
The children did a fantastic job at observational paintings of fruit and vegetables!
We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children designed their own pictures of themselves in their chosen costumes.
In maths, we have continued exploring shapes and recognition of numbers to 3. We enjoyed spinning the subitising wheel and identifying the number of objects.
We made some bird feeders and put them up in the wildlife garden!
A wonderful week Nursery, Well done!
Wow! Time is going so fast. Another half term done!
This week we have continued to read and learn about The Three Billy Goats Gruff story. I was super impressed with the children for retelling the story. We have been terrific teamwork tigers, the children worked together to build bridges using lots of different resources. We tested the bridges out to see how strong they were!
In phonics this week we have been learning about the letter n. We have also been doing lots of different activities linked to rhyming. It would be great if you could encourage rhyming at home. I say a word and the children say a word that rhymes e.g. cat and the children would say mat.
In maths, we have continued our learning on numbers 1,2 and 3 as well as using print to make repeating patterns.
We have strengthened our fine motor skills this week by using scissors to do different cutting activities. We cut grass for the Billy Goats and made our very own models!
The children have had great fun exploring in the outdoors and have shown fantastic independence skills putting wellies and coats on.
Another fabulous week!
We hope that you all have a wonderful half term holiday.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook, Mrs Redpath, Mrs Goodall and Miss Henderson
Another brilliant week in Nursery!
We started our new book The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children have thoroughly enjoyed playing in the role play area building bridges, pretending to be the troll and the Billy Goats. Fantastic teamwork building bridges!
Our letter of the week is i. So far we have looked at m,a,s,d,t,i. We have been doing lots of Fred Talk in nursery. Fred is a frog and he can only say the sounds in a word and needs your child to help him read the word. Fred will say the sounds and children will work out the word. For example, Fred will say the sounds c–a–t, and children will say the word cat. This is Fred Talk: sounding out the word.
In maths, we have continued to explore numbers 1,2,3 as well as looking at repeating patterns. It would be great if you could continue this at home. Can your child collect items such as sticks and leaves to create a repeating pattern?
We love to see pictures from home shared on Tapestry.
In our play this week we have been doing lots of activities linked to Valentine’s including using rice, colour mixing, making gloop but our favourite activity was following step by step instructions to make heart biscuits, yum!
We have also been strengthening our fine motor skills and using great concentration skills when sewing!
Well done Nursery superstars.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
We have had another very busy and exciting week in Nursery!
We have continued our learning all about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I was so impressed with the children for their story retell. We have been doing lots of activities linked to our story including sequencing the story, Goldilocks yoga, pretending that shaving foam was porridge and creating a new chair for baby bear out of junk modelling.
The children were VERY shocked to find out that Goldilocks had been in our classroom and messed it all up. The children made wanted posters to see if we could find Goldilocks!
In Maths, we identified different shapes and made a shape house. We have also been sorting and matching numbers 1,2 and 3. The children have also been matching and sorting colours.
We have thoroughly enjoyed exploring in the Wildlife Garden. What great fun we have had building houses for the mini beasts, making pretend fires, going on bear hunts, playing hide and seek and so much more.
Keep up the good work Nursery superstars!
For the next two weeks we will be reading and learning about the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff!
What an incredibly busy and exciting week we have had in Nursery!
Our story over the next two weeks is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Our role play area has transformed into the Bears Cottage. The children have shown great imagination when in this area. We made our very own porridge. We started by pouring the milk into the bowl and mixing the oats. We then looked at how porridge was made! The children then cut their own fruit and put it into their porridge. They had a lot of different choices of fruit, jam and honey mmmmm!
We also made mud porridge in our mud kitchen for the worms.
Linking to the story, the children worked together to make big, medium and small towers to represent the 3 bears.
We were very lucky to have Mr Bailey in Nursery this week. We went into the hall and had a now, press, play experience. We all put headphones on and listened to the story of The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks. Through the headphones we listened to instructions and pretended to be the characters from the stories. Mr Bailey also brought his iPads with exciting games linking to the stories.
We have also celebrated Chinese New Year and tasted some delicious Chinese food.
Well done Nursery, what a fabulous week we have had!
Thanks again for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
We have had another brilliant week in Nursery!
We have continued our learning all about The Three Little Pigs story. The children have created some wonderful work and have shown amazing teamwork tiger skills in The Three Little Pigs construction house. I am so proud of the children for their Three Little Pigs story retell. We listened to each other retelling the story on the big screen!
We have been looking at different house/ homes from around the world and houses/ homes from the past and comparing them to now.
This week our letter of the week is s, our number is 3, our colour is yellow and our shape is a square. The Nursery children have also thoroughly enjoyed exploring outdoors and showed great independence skills putting waterproofs and wellies on.
The children have been doing a number of different activities to strengthen their fine motor skills. Our favourite activity is dough disco!
A very popular area in Nursery this week has been the creative table. The children have shown amazing imagination when creating their own art work.
Next week we will begin our learning based on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
As you can see by the pictures, Nursery have had a very busy and fun filled week!
The children have shown amazing teamwork tiger skills, working together indoors and outdoors.
We are continuing our learning on The Three Little Pigs. The children were very creative and made their own house for the pig out of junk modelling. They used a whole range of craft materials, scissors, glue and tape. They also pretended to be the wolf. They huffed and puffed to try and blow down different objects. We have also been colour mixing to make pink in order to paint the pigs.
In Maths, we have been learning all about the number 3 and how to represent the number 3 using different objects. We have also been matching and sorting objects into the correct colour.
Our sound of the week is a. The children have been using Fred Talk with sounds beginning with a… a-n-t ant. We have also been using different art resources to make the letter a.
To strengthen our fine motor skills, we have been doing lots of different activities including Write Dance. Mrs Cook told the story of The Three Little Pigs with different instructions and the children had to use big and small movements on the paper. A fun way to develop fine motor skills is threading Cheerio's onto spaghetti!
We went on a walk to look for signs of Winter. The children are trying very hard with their independence skills of putting wellies, coats and waterproofs on. If you could encourage this at home as well that would be fantastic.
A brilliant week Nursery superstars, well done!
Welcome back!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. The children were very excited to talk about what they got from Santa.
We have had a fun and very busy first week back. We welcomed our new Nursery friends and we have been showing them how to play in our Nursery.
Over the next 3 weeks our story focus is The Three Little Pigs. We have our very own construction site in Nursery where we have been working together to build our own houses. Great teamwork skills Nursery!
We have also been learning all about the letter m.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed singing Nursery rhymes. We sequenced the rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
We have had a big focus on Winter now that the weather is cold, brrrr! We went on a walk to look for signs of Winter and used hammers to smash the ice. We made different Winter pictures including a picture of us dressed for Winter.
We are trying very hard to put our coats, waterproofs and wellies on independently.
A brilliant week Nursery. Well done!