Author: Sarah Cowgill

World Book Day

Thank you for coming into Nursery and sharing some of our World Book Day activities with the children. We love reading in Nursery and it’s fabulous to see the children so passionate about their favourite stories.

We’ve also been enjoying stories in the sunshine at forest school this week.

Next week, we’ll continue with our ‘growing theme and will listen to ‘Oliver’s Vegetables‘ by Vivian French.  We’ll be talking about the different foods that we eat and where they come from.

Help at home: We’re learning all about Number 3. Can they find a way to represent 3 at home? They might bring you 3 objects (they don’t have to match), they could draw 3 marks or clap 3 times.

Planting Beanstalks

We’ve had a super busy first week back in Nursery. In our OUTSTANDING Early Years provision we know the importance of outdoor play to develop confidence, independence and our problem solving skills.

As part of our learning with ‘Jaspers Beanstalk’ book we planted our own beanstalks. We’ve talked about what our seed will need to sprout and grow, see if the children can tell you.

Help at home: Go on a little spring walk, maybe just to the park and have a look for signs of spring.

Reminder – World Book Day 

It’s World Book Day on Thursday 06 March. This year, we will celebrate by bringing our favourite book to nursery to share with our friends. Please make sure that your child’s name is in their book. If you can stay a little bit longer at drop off on Thursday morning, we’d love for you to share a book with your child or to join in with some of the World Book Day activities that will be in provision. It’s always a day that we really enjoy at nursery, so please join in if you can.

We’ve been learning all about the Number 2! We counted 2 objects out, subertised 2 (said on sight), learned that “a part of me is one, a part of me is one and the whole of me is two” and went on a hunt around Nursery to find ways to represent two.

 

  

As we explored lots of activities in provision relating to Little Red Riding Hood we’ve been working on our pencil grip. It’s something that will make a big difference when the children start school.

Help at home: Draw or paint a picture, showing them how to hold their pencil/paint brush in a ‘tripod’ grip. We’ve been drawing our favourite foods this week so they might want to add to that.

 

Timetable update: PE will now be on a Thursday morning so please send the children in something comfortable such as jogging bottoms and trainers on Thursdays.

 

Reminder – World Book Day

It’s World Book Day on Thursday 06 March. This year, we will celebrate by bringing our favourite book to nursery to share with our friends. Please make sure that your child’s name is in their book. If you can stay a little bit longer at drop off on the Thursday morning, we’d love for you to share a book with your child or to join in with some of the World Book Day activities that will be in provision. It’s always a day that we really enjoy at nursery, so please join in if you can.

We hope that you all have a happy and healthy half term and we’ll see you on Monday 24 February.

We’ve been reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. If you have this story at home then please enjoy reading it together. If not, you might want to listen to Cbeebies sharing it for their story time.

Construction Champions- Our building skills have been amazing this week, we’re thinking about what we want to make and then using it in our play after. Look at these car ramps, hotels and even a passenger ferry.

 

Mark making is such an important part of our learning in Nursery, we’ve been busy making marks in sand, painting, in our message centre and outside on the big whiteboard. We’re working really hard to hold our pencil comfortably so we have good control.

  

Help at home: We’re really enjoying our Nursery Rhymes, see if the children can perform you their favourite one. The Grand Old Duke of York, Baa Baa Black Sheep and 1,2,3,4,5 are the most requested.

Dinosaur Roar!

We’ve been reading Dinosaur Roar this week in Nursery and finding out about dinosaurs.

Can you remember some of the dinosaurs from the story?

“Dinosaur weak, dinosaur strong, dinosaur short or dinosaur very, very long”

 

We made a volcano in our sand tray, painted dinosaurs using frozen paint and made dinosaur footprints using Playdough.

Next week, we’ll start some new learning about weight. We will be using words such as heavy, light, heavier and lighter to compare different objects.

Help at home: You could continue this learning at home by asking questions during everyday activities.

Which bag from the supermarket is heaviest/ lightest? Which toy is lighter? Can you find something that is lighter than the bottle of milk? Can you find something that is heavier than a packet of crisps?

Forest School

We had so much fun in our forest school session and have been showing our friends new to Nursery what it’s all about.

We’re back and we’ve been super busy!

The children settled in so well after their Christmas break. They’ve been brilliant at going back to their usual routines and I’ve been so impressed with their self-care skills. Lots of children can put their coats on themselves and take shoes and socks off for PE.

In PE we’ve been practising climbing, balancing and jumping as well as our coordination skills with bean bags and quoits.

For Maths we’ve been building our mastery with number 1! We can represent one using our hands, with Numicon, by making marks and collecting one object.

Have a go at home by watching Number Blocks, Number 1, then find ways to represent 1 in your house. We’d love to see any photos or videos!

Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip

Next week!

Next week our book will be Dinosaur Roar!