Picnics

What a week!. We have had a very busy week in Nursery. In P.E. we carried on practising our Teddy Bear's Picnic May Dance. The children are following really well, so hopefully our performance for you next week will make you proud.

Theo and Ola's favourite part of the week this week was taking photographs of the Teddy Bears. The children did well trying to get the Teddy Bear's face in the picture and pushing down hard on the button. We are hoping to use them for our David Hockney work next week.

We were very impressed with the children's drawing and painting skills this week. We challenged the children to draw and then paint with watercolours some Winnie-the Pooh characters. Nehan looked really carefully at Winnie-the-Pooh to draw the shapes and Lydia added Eeyore's bow for detail on her picture.

The children had a great time at Aldenham Country Park, despite the wet weather. They enjoyed finding the Winnie-the-Pooh characters' houses and running through the buttercups in 100 Aker Wood. We saw lots of animals at the farm including cows, rabbits, guinea pigs, sheep, donkeys and horses. We all had a photo taken on the tractor. At lunchtime Winnie-the-Pooh came to see us and some of us enjoyed giving him a big hug. We all enjoyed jumping in the muddy puddles and running throught the mud. Thank you to all the parents who helped and braved the wet weather.

On Friday we made sandwiches for our picnic. We could put jam or honey in and then cut the sandwiches into different shapes. The weather wasn't on our side so we used Treetops and had an indoor picnic with the bears.

Next week our sound of the week is 'v' and we will be learning some rhymes about bears.

Afternoon Nursery will be performing the May Dance at the Community Tea on Thursday afternoon.
Morning Nursery will be performing at the May King and Queen Celebrations on Friday morning.
If your child is in Treetops on a Thursday afternoon, they will also be performing at the Community Tea.

Winnie-the-Pooh

We have had an exciting week this week showing some of our grown-ups how we learn in Nursery. We hope that work shadowing was a valuable experience for you if you were able to take part. We were pleased to see all the grown-ups joining in with singing, playing and dancing with their children.

This week we read the story 'Winnie-the-Pooh and the Troublesome Bees.' We followed Pooh through the story and were introduced to the other characters in the books. We used this to help us with our Maths learning. We counted the bees carefully and separated them in different ways.

We followed a map of the outdoor area to find 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The children were able to use lots of position language and could talk about where to go in the outside area.

We looked at a map of 100 Acre Wood in preparation for our trip to Aldenham Country Park next week. The children were able to spot the different characters we had seen in our Winnie-the-Pooh story.

Next week we will be continuing to read about Winnie-the-Pooh and our trip to Aldenham Country Park is on Wednesday next week. We will be painting characters from the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and making our own picnics.

Our sound of the week is 'j' and we will be reading the rhyme 'Happiness' by A. A. Milne.

We're Going on a Bear Hunt ...again

The children have continued to enjoy 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and this week we went on a Bear Hunt, repeating the phrases and words from the story in the outdoor area. The children could remember the words and enjoyed the repeated phrases as they walked through the swishy swashy grass. Their favourite part was running away from the bear back through the different settings.

We also explored the woodwork area outside and learnt how to use the tools carefully and safely.

The children were very excited to have a look at the chicks in the classroom. We got them out and let them run on the carpet and some of us were brave enough to hold them.

The children enjoyed singing the song 'There were 10 in the bed' during our maths sessions. The children drew 10 teddies on their whiteboards and rubbed one out every time one fell out of bed.

Next week we be finding out about Winnie-the-Pooh and reading maps.

Our sound of the week is 'l' and we will be learning a song about Winnie-the-Pooh.

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

This week we have enjoyed reading the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and joining in with the repetitive phrases. Joy and Jasmine used some lovely expression when joining in. The children had a go at drawing and writing about their favourite parts in the story.

In Maths we thought about positional language and went on our own hunt in the playground, under the tunnel, over the bridge and next to the sandpit.

In P.E. we started practising for our May Dance. The children listened to two different types of music and responded very well to the different speeds. The children have obviously been practising their skipping.

The children have really enjoyed looking at the chicks this week and have been counting how many they can see. We are hoping that they might be able to visit us in Nursery next week.

The children have been getting used to their new groups and have been painting their own Bears and Bees. They have looked very carefully at the pictures and colours.

Next week we will be continuing to read 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and will be using the woodwork area outside.

Our sound of the week is 'l'.

We will be putting out the sign up sheets for work shadowing which is taking place from 9th to 12th May. This is when you can join your child in Nursery and shadow everything they do; from sitting on the carpet, joining in with singing and taking part in learning through play.

Out and About

The children have settled back well after Easter and we have been excited about getting some new friends join us in the afternoon.

It was lovely to see so many great entries for the Easter Challenge Cress Heads. Well done George in Morning Nursery and Teddy in Afternoon Nursery, our Nursery winners.

The children had a great day for the Fun Run Sporty day. They enjoyed having a go on the obstacle course which had been set up on the playground for them. The morning children had a go at a running race on the field too. The afternoon children ran around the playground in laps as the Juniors were on the field, and they loved it.

All children have had some time on the activity playground this week and have shown confidence in climbing and balancing on it.

In Phonics we had a go at listening to sounds in the outside area. It was lovely to be in the sunshine and we identified lots of different sounds we could hear.

We practised the rhyme Hickety Pickety My Red Hen every day and the children got really good at singing it and getting the rhythm.

Treetops shared a book about growing a sunflower and as a result have planted their own seeds to see if they can get them to grow. We’ll be watching them on our Discovery table.

Next week we will be reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.’

Our sound of the week is ‘f’.

Our Nusery Trip is on Wednesday 17^th May. We will be needing lots of helpers, so if you are able to help please let us know by signing up on the sheet outside Nursery or sending us an email.

Kaleidoscope of People

This week in Nursery we have been looking at the similarities and differences between ourselves and others. We sorted pictures of children looking at their eye, skin and hair colour and talked about where we would put ourselves. Sammy told us that his brother's hair is different to his and his parent's hair. This linked in well with our song this week, 'What colour are your eyes?'

 

We made Mother's Day card this week by sticking cake cases to make a flower shape. We hope you liked them.

 

In  Maths we looked at different coins and their shapes. We tried to 'buy' toys by matching the number of pennies with the numbers on the labels.

 

In phonics next week we will be looking at all the sounds we have learnt so far ' s a t p i n m g o d c k ck u r h'

 

Our theme of the week is Easter and we will be singing lots of Easter rhymes.

 

Please remember term finishes at 1.30 on Friday.

 

Colours Around Us

This week we have been learning about Colours Around Us.

In P.E. we made up a Rainbow dance, pretending to be the sun, then the rain and used coloured scarves to create the Rainbow. We will be continuing this next week.

We had lots of fun making our 'Rainbow Pizzas.' We had to chop up the different coloured peppers, red onion and tomatoes very carefully, holding our knives safely. We spread tomato puree onto the wraps, decorated it with the vegetables in a rainbow pattern and sprinkled cheese on the top. Miles predicted that the pizza would go 'crispy' in the oven and the 'cheese will melt.' We hope they enjoyed eating them.

We explored some remote control toys this week and worked out how to make them move and how to get them to make a noise.

We have been reading poems this week about colours and made up our own.

Pink is in the rainbow and in pink pigs, (Sienna)
Red can be a Power Ranger and yummy strawberries, (Benji)
Green is beans, trees and jumping frogs, (Joy)
Yellow is Sammy's cup and my Mummy's hair, (Nia)
Blue can be a shark with sharp fins in the blue sea, (Daisy)
Purple is sweet grapes, yucky plums and Tinkie Winkie,
Orange is the colours of the world in juicy oranges and the hot sun. (Toby)

Red is a beetroot and my school jumper, (Matthew)
Red is China's favourite, (Maddison)
Blue is cold ice and a cloudy sky, (Theo)
Yellow is bananas, sunshine and a baby giraffe, (Harry and Maddison)
Green is the world and spiky grass, (Jasmine)
Gold is treasure and a lion's fur, (Henry)
Purple is an onion and good blackberries. (Miles) Lavender too, (Matthew)
Pink is piglets and the Nursery cameras. (Maddison)

Next week our sound of the week is 'h'.