Remember that game called “Beetle Drive” well in the nursery Miss Shepherd adapted it to “People Drive.”  Each body part required a different number on the die – it meant that the children not only discussed their body part names but also practised number recognition on the board and die!

The children played body part bingo too  – with some trickier words such as eyebrow or elbow.

This week we used a different media to make the features of our face.  Mrs Hynd helped the children make a special dough with cornflour and food colouring.  The children then moulded the shapes of their eyes, mouth and nose.  It was lots of fun!

This week we have been talking about our body.  We can identify and name different parts of our body and everyone has drawn themselves for their profile folder.

We loved using the Smartboard to sort animals into big or small.  To make it  even more tricky we then sequenced them from small to big.

We had a great time painting life sized nursery children – one boy and one girl.  We will use these next week to help learn our friend’s names and sort them into boy or girl.  We will also use them for a height chart to find out who is the tallest and who is the smallest in the nursery.

For our topic we have set up in the nursery a clothes shop so that children can role-play purchasing new items of clothing.   They have enjoyed admiring themselves in the mirror and have particularly loved trying on the wigs and hats as you will see from the photos below.

Our topic for September is “All About Me!”

This week we have focussed on our faces – discussing our eyes and hair – what colour are they?  Eyebrows, noses and nostrils – where are they on our face?  What are they for?

Mirrors have been used to look really closely at our own faces and we have discussed how we are all different and unique!

The children have had the opportunity to use lots of different media to draw themselves – from paints and crayons, to collage and paper plates and even the Smartboard.

We encourage the children to use our outdoor space for learning as well as playing and we go outside even when it is raining.  Please can you therefore ensure that you dress your child appropriately for that day’s weather – wellie boots would be fantastic on a very wet day along with a waterproof jacket.

Thank you for taking time to visit our nursery class blog –  we have had a wonderful start to our new session with lots of new faces joining our nursery!  A big thank you and welcome back  to all our wonderful preschool pupils who have been amazing in making sure that our new nursery children settle in quickly to the routines of our class.   I am delighted to report there have only been a few tears and it has been mainly the mums!

Here are some photos of our children busy learning and having fun during the first few days of our new school year!

All posts above this will be from the 2015-2016 School year Session.

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