Nursery Rhyme Week

We have got really good at singing our Nursery Rhymes this week and have enjoyed changing the words in some of them.

We used instruments to accompany Dr Foster and showed that we were really good at playing loud and soft, fast and slow.

In P.E. we had a go at throwing and catching the balls to partners. We had to remember to watch the ball and then pull it into us when we had caught it.

We have explored lots of different sizes and shapes of magnet this week. We found that some things stick to them and some don't. Some of us noticed that they push and pull each other too. We also enjoyed using torches to help us look in dark places and to explore the effect of light on prisms and mirrors.

On Friday Morning Nursery went to see Maple Class do their Sharing Assembly. We showed excellent listening skills. At 11am we stayed silent for a whole minute while we thought about the soldiers from long ago. Afternoon Nursery went to the Celebration Assembly and also did fantastic listening. We talked about Poppy day too and listened to some special music called 'The Last Post'.

Next week we will be reading Cinderella and talking about the characters and events in the story.

Our sound of the week is 'p' and our rhyme of the week is Hickory Dickory Dock.

We have moved our Woodlands session to Monday 21st November. Please let us know if you are able to help.

Each Peach Pear Plum

The children have all come back into Nursery after the half term break ready for learning.

This week we have been revisiting Each Peach Pear Plum and the children drew pictures of their favourite characters and told us why they liked them.

We have also been practising our mouse skills this week which most of us found very tricky. We had to click on objects and move the mouse to move the objects. This was helping us to develop our fine motor control. If you would like to practise a bit more at home we were making 'Scary Spuds' from the Crickweb website. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

We've done well at recognising and saying our sound of the week and all particularly enjoyed making some 'silly soup' using objects beginning with 's'.

We've talked about Bonfire Night and how to keep safe around fireworks.

We've found a new way of keeping the sand out of our shoes in the sandpit by wearing disposable covers over them. This is making it much quicker to get ready!

Rev Tim came to visit the Afternoon Nursery on Friday so he can get to know us a bit and find out how we learn. We really enjoyed telling him about what we like doing at Nursery. Afternoon Nursery also went to celebration assembly this week.

The children enjoyed our first book browsing session with the parents. On a Wednesday at drop off you are welcome to come in with your child and share a book with them and if your child would like to take one home we will sign it out for them.

Next week is 'Nursery Rhyme Week.' We will be singing Incy Wincy Spider, Doctor Foster, Two Little Dickie Birds and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

The sound of the week is 'a'. Please feel free to bring in any objects for our sound table.

Russia

All the children really loved our focus on Russia for Cultural Week. In P.E. we listened to 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' and responded in our own way to the music. Some of us had very gentle arms and careful tip-toes.

 

For special snack we had beetroot and we were very proud of the way nearly all of the children were prepared to taste it.

 

The children worked really hard to create their models of Saint Basil's Cathedral, learning how to use the tape dispenser and glue spreaders to fix pieces together.  Lydia recognised the picture of Saint Basil's Cathedral and told us that it is found in Red Square. She had picked up this knowledge from an episode of 'Go Jetters' so we all watched it to find out more about Russia.

 

We saw some fantastic work in Maths too with the children ordering the Russian dolls according to size and stacking them in and out of each other.

 

We all went over to the 'Treetops' classroom and used the djembe drums to play along to the Russian song 'Kalinka'. The children enjoyed playing fast and slow according to the music. We loved some of the attempts at Cossack dancing we saw during Learning Through Play.

 

On Thursday morning the children experienced their first fire drill and the morning Nursery coped really well, walking calmly and sensibly to the playground and then back.

 

After half term the sound of the week will be 's'. The number of the week is '4'. The rhyme of the week is 'Old Mother Hubbard.'

We hope you all have a lovely half term.

Goldilocks

We have had another busy week in Nursery.
In P.E. we got the big parachute out and had fun pretending it was a Merry-Go-Round. We moved around the circle in different ways. We also had to run under the parachute and swap places with someone who had the same colour t-shirt.
We decorated biscuits for the Three Bears for our Maths activity. We had to do careful counting of the sultanas to put on our biscuits by saying the number names in order and touching each one as we said the number name. Sophia had 11 raisins on her biscuit so the group decided it must be for Daddy Bear!
The morning children loved seeing the Year 2 assembly on Friday morning. They sat and listened brilliantly.
The afternoon children had Miles' brother from Year 2 come and read them a story he had written about Kipper complete with illustrations. They loved it!
We all had the balls out in Learning through Play to practice our catching, throwing and kicking skills.
We talked about keeping safe on the Internet and liked seeing some photos of us on the website.
We were very good at rolling and squeezing the Playdough. Some of us managed to make thumb pots. Mary-Jane kindly brought in a Peppa Pig Playdough set for us to use which lots of us have enjoyed playing.

Next week is cultural week and we will be learning about Russia.

Our rhyme of the week will be Pat-a-Cake.

Harvest and Woodlands

The children did a lovely performance of 'Oats and Beans' in their assemblies this week. They remembered the words and the actions to the song.

The children loved their first Woodlands visit and found lots of signs of Autumn. They made some lovely Autumn crowns using the different objects they had found. On their walk the children found apples growing on one of our trees and blackberries. They especially enjoyed hugging the beautiful crocheted trees!

Afternoon Nursery sat in the story telling chair outside and took turns to make up stories for each other.

The children have really enjoyed listening to the story 'The Scarecrow's Wedding' this week and by the end of the week were able to join in with the different parts.

We have a new rail outside for the children to hang up their Woodlands suits so they can stay at school every day if you wish. Please make sure they are named so they do not get muddled up.

Next week we are going to be reading the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.'

Our rhyme of the week is 'Little Bo Peep.'

Mark making

Nursery have had a fun week.

In P.E. we all enjoyed shaking our beanbags to the 'Beanbag Rock' song and finding different parts of our bodies to balance them on. We have been using our listening skills when moving around the hall and practising stopping when we hear the tambourine.

We have been using our mark making skills this week by drawing pictures of our families. We also looked carefully at ourselves to draw our self portraits.

We were lucky to have Nick Schon, the illustrator of the Biff and Chip books, to visit us in Nursery. Morning Nursery made up a story  about Kipper falling off a building, going down a water slide and then landing on a cat. Afternoon Nursery got Kipper to meet a family of dinosaurs and make friends with the baby one. It was a lot of fun.

The children all loved going on the climbing wall and in the new tunnel when it was finally opened at the end of the week. Many were challenging themselves and taking risks on the equipment.

Next week our rhyme of the week is 'Baby Bunting'. We will be reading 'The Scarecrow's Wedding.' to link in with Harvest.

Brilliant Books!

We have had another enjoyable week in Nursery and have really enjoyed reading Each Peach Pear Plum, joining in with the phrases and trying to find the characters in the pictures. The teachers have enjoyed hearing all about our favourite books and why we like them. Thank you for sending in the fantastic photos.

We have been learning how to look after the toys and equipment in the Nursery and the outside areas. We have been learning about how to tidy away the toys and what to do in the different areas. We are looking forward to exploring them more.

The children have loved exploring the new sandpit and moving the diggers and trucks. The sand grabbers have been great for our motor control and we have enjoyed ‘digging up the road.’ Some of us have just enjoyed feeling the sand between our toes and have loved jumping up and down in it. We need more practise with putting on our socks and shoes when we have finished. Please could you practise this at home.

We loved having Kathryn Holt in telling us the story of the Lion and the Mouse and we showed some great listening skills. We helped her by doing some noises and actions.

We’ve had our first ‘Physical Friday’ using the bikes, scooters and little cars. We did really well at sharing and taking turns.

Peaches  group from Morning Nursery and the Afternoon Nursery children had their first trip to our school library for story time. They loved sitting on the comfy seats and cushions there. The morning Pears group are looking forward to their turn next week.

Next week our rhyme of the week is ‘Tommy Thumb’.

In Phonics we will be using our listening skills.