The Gruffalo Song
As promised the children performing ‘The Gruffalo Song’ in Nursery as some of them had a little stage fright on World Book Day.
Can they sing along at home with you?
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 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.
Heavier Or Lighter?
This week, we have been thinking about weight.
We have been comparing objects in our classroom and using the words ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’ to describe them.
Sometimes, we were tricked! Some of us thought that the biggest object might be the heaviest. We now know
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that’s not always the case!
Help at home: Can you compare some objects that you have? Which feels heavier and lighter when you feel them?
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!
Festive fun!
We have been enjoying lots of festivities this week!
We’ve been designing out own Christmas cards, decorating baubles and making our own party hats ready for Christmas dinner day. We may have also had a special visitor in to see us.
IT WAS SANTA!
We have also been reflecting on this years half-term. Our Christian value this half-term has been- Compassion. The children understand that to be compassionate is to be kind and caring . Here are some of the children’s thoughts on what being kind is too them.
I’m kind to my friends when I share my cars- J
If someone needs help I am kind to them- Oria
If someone hurts themselves I can get a Teacher to help them feel better- Avery
I like to give people a hug- Elliott
Miss Feldman is kind because she gets us some snack and milk- Blossom
Notice:
The Nursery team would like to wish you all a happy, healthy Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
A special mention from myself to say Thank you for a wonderful last term. It has truly been an enjoyable experience and it’s amazing to see all the progress that has been made since September. I will be signing off for a little while now to enjoy spending some time with my family and entering into motherhood. I hope to see you all soon, Miss Ward.
National Santa Dash
On Friday, all children took part in the National Santa Dash. This event was all about having some fun whilst being active.
We’ve decided to extend this event: we’ll be holding an Easter and Summer Dash, too! Our goal is to allow pupils to set some targets and improve on their personal bests through the year.
Here are some photos – enjoy!
Whatever Next!
This week our focus story has been another fabulous book by Jill Murphy
We took our teddies and space helmets into space in our rockets. We had a lovely picnic and saw lots of things on the way too.
Can we go to the moon now? – Blossom
Look it’s an Owl, it’s nocturnal- Elliott
We need to have our picnic now, I’ll get the food – J
I’ve got some watermelon- Avery
Oh no it’s raining, we need our puddlesuit- Oria
We need to go back now to get our bath beacause we are dirty- T
Big rocket- Tate
Help at home: Take a journey to the moon, what will you see?
If you have any empty boxes at home you could decorate it and take your grown-up’s on a journey. Don’t forget to be back in time for your bath before bed.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Nursery Team