St Bartholomew's Nursery Class

This week in nursery, we have begun an exciting new initiative. Everyday, we are working in groups with a different teacher and are rotating to work on activities such as music, PATHS, physical time, 3-read story time and skill development. We are enjoying working with every teacher and getting the chance to be involved in so many activities each week.

Thank you so much to everyone who made the Nursery Karaoke Fundraiser such an outstanding success. We raised a magnificent £2329.30, which will be used to take our children to Wellfield Farm in May. A particular thank you must go to our fabulous parent committee who really pulled out all the stops to make the event the wonderful event it was. The committee are invited to a meeting on Thursday 28th for some thank you tea and cake. Below are some of the many positive pieces of feedback we got on the night.

 

What a wonderful surprise when we came into nursery this week to find that our butterflies had broken out of their cocoons and were now stretching out their lovely wings to fly around their enclosure. We have been watching them as they feed on oranges and now it’s time to release them. Mrs Higgins is going to release them tomorrow into the countryside near were she lives. We have enjoyed watching our caterpillars change into butterflies.

The children continue to study sorting in our nursery. This week, we had to sort out some diamonds and gold coins from a special treasure chest! We noticed that when you sort items into groups, the items in a group must be similar in some way. What great work from everyone!

 

 

 

This week we are starting to learn an important skill in literacy. We are learning to write our own names. We have to look very closely at the letters. First we are learning to write over our name to practice. Then we are trying to write over the dots. Some of us are even able to copy the letters which make up our name. It is tricky but with lots of practice we are getting better and better at it.

Our cocoons have now been transferred into the special pop up enclosure they have. Now all we have to do is to be patient and wait for some butterflies to emerge.

We have been sorting ourselves into groups this week in nursery. To do this, we followed ‘The Sorting Path’ all the way to a noticeboard. On the noticeboard was a rule. If we followed this rule, we sat on the ‘yes’ mat. If we didn’t, we sat on the ‘no’ mat. This meant that we had sorted ourselves into groups!

 

Well done everyone!

 

We are really proud of this talented boy who won this great trophy when he was Player of the Week for his football team. Well done!

What a surprise we had this week! Our very hungry caterpillars have eaten enough to reach the next stage of their life cycle. They have all built their own little cocoons and are now beginning to change again. We have been learning that after two weeks they will emerge as butterflies! We can’t wait to see!