Week Seven, Autumn two

Nursery have been very busy this week practising their independent cutting skills, they have also been recalling shape facts as they make festive pictures, as well as playing a Christmas lotto game matching up the pictures on their board. 

On Thursday we had a Christmas party, showing our best dance moves, playing games and having some lovely party food. We even had a visit from Santa himself! 

Thank you Children and parents for a great Autumn term! The Nursery team wish you all a very Merry Christmas and happy new year! 

Week six Autumn two

This week the festive activities have continued in nursery as children have used tweezers to decorate a christmas tree and developed their cutting skills to cut out pictures and create a list for Father Christmas. 

In maths the children have looked at different patterns copying a friend building a tower, finishing a simple pattern and even having a go at creating their own pattern. 

In phonics we have learnt about things begining with "n" and sang the rhyme "Round and round the garden." 

We finished the week with our Christmas jumper day and a very fun 'Santa dash' where the children ran all the way around the school!  

Week five Autumn two

The Children have enjoyed reading The Gingerbread Man story this week, decorating a biscuit and then using different materials to decorate a gingerbraed man to use in role play. The children have been counting in maths through rhymes and pictures. We have discussed matching the amount of objects to the correct number. In phonics we have sand "Mary, Mary quite contrary" and listend for words beginning with i. 

Nursery rhymes that are taught in school can be found in the helping at home folder.

Week four Autumn two

This week, Christmas has come to the Nursery. The children have enjoyed their new reading area, independently looking through books and cuddling up to a teddy. They have also enjoyed the puppets, beginning to make up their own stories and role plays.

We have learnt about the very first Christmas and been busy preparing for our Christmas craft session next week.

In phonics the children have learnt a new rhyme, "Pat - a -cake," and found objects beginning with "p"

The children have also been practicing their positional language using small world resources. 

Week three Autumn two

This week the children have listened to the story Owl babies and completed paintings, collages and drawings of owls. They have matched baby animals to their mothers and discussed the differences. 

In maths the children have been representing numbers 1-3 in different ways using their fingers. How many different ways can they show you? 

Our sound this week was "t" the children have found items around the nursery starting with this sound. We made up a story "They got a ticket, went on a train along a track, passed a tree, through a tunnel and saw ten tigers!" 

Week two Autumn two.

This week, the nursery children have been developing their communication and language skills, along with their personal, social and emotional development. Based on the story Ruby's worry, we have been encouraging children to talk to each other and staff about how they are feeling. For Ruby her worry got smaller when she talked about it.  For Remembrance Day, they made beautiful poppies to honour the soldiers. As part of anti bullying week, the children designed their own unique sock patterns, embracing the importance of celebrating our differences. To end the week on a high note, we joined in with Children in Need fun on Friday, enjoying themed activities like a Pudsey spaghetti tuff tray! Thank you for your donations.

Week one Autumn two.

We hope you all had a fantastic half term! Nursery have been enjoying learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night. The children created some firework pictures and learning about what happens when we mix colours. Mrs Aarti had celebtrated Diwali and she shared with the children what happens in preperation and on the day. 

The children learned how to be safe on bonfire night and made some bonfires using sticks and leaves. We created a firework display in the style of Jackson Pollock flicking the paint from the brush. 

Week 8 Autumn 1

Our rhyme this week was "Miss Molly had a dolly" The children sang the rhyme and with support found the rhyming words. We sang the song fast, slow, loud and quiet, the children also made the sounds of the phone ringing, knocking at the door and cough, cough with their mouths. 

In maths the children have been subitising number 1 -3 using pictures from a book and the different resources from around the nursery. The children then brought this play answering the questions "What do you see?" "How do you see it? They would say "I see 2 here, 1 here and 3 here" 

The story this week was "Funny bones" the children made skeletons and had discussions about the different parts of the body. We also looked at some x - ray pictures showing the bones inside our bodies. 

Week 7 Autumn 1

This week our rhyme was "Hickory Dickory Dock" the children enjoyed singing this song and recognising the numbers on the clock. We talked about rhyming words and made up silly rhymes by changing the words. 

We read the story Spinderella and the children counted plastic spiders on the web, using tweezers to pick them up. Very brave!

In maths the children learned to sequence numbers. We looked at number rhymes and counting actions, such as jumps, stamps and claps.

Week 6 Autumn 1

Our rhyme this week was "One, two buckle my shoe" The children enjoyed singing this song and it linked into our maths where the children were putting numbers in the correct order. We sang other rhymes like 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive. 

The children have also been learning about Autumn. They have made some lovely autumnal pictures. While creating these we talked about the different colours they can see around them and how the trees are changing.

Week 5 Autumn 1

This week our rhyme was "Incy Wincy Spider". The children listened to the sounds of the rain, birds tweeting and water going down the drain. We then made these sounds with our mouths "Pitter patter" "Gurgle, gurgle" and "weeee" as the spider was washed down the water spout. 

We all tried joining in with repeated refrains in stories as we read Aaaarrgghh spider book. The children enjoyed saying "Aaaarrgghh spider out you go!"

The children looked at other stories that contained repeated refrains in them, such as Owl Babies, and had a really good go and joining in. Well-done Nursery!

Week 4 Autumn 1

This week the children learned the rhyme "Hay Diddle, Diddle" The children listened to the sound of a cat meowing, a cow mooing and a dog barking and talked about what they could hear. 

The children had a go at singing the rhyme fast, slow, loud and quiet. 

In maths the children explored 2D shapes talking about them and creating pictures. 

We also made new friends as new children started in the nursery. 

Week 3 Autumn 1 

This week the children have been learning the rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" They have been listening to animal sounds and talking about what they hear. They have been copying sound patterns and finding syllables in the words "black" "master" "little" and "sheep"

The children also looked at words that sound the same in the rhyme and some words that have the same initial sound. 

In maths the children have been comparing amounts using the vocabulary more and fewer, moving objects in and out of a group to make the different groups have more or fewer items in each one. 

During the week the children have also been introduced to the different rules and expectations while they are in Nursery. We have created our own class rules togther.