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Last week of term

We did some ‘cooking’, we said we were “Making pie” and “Something spicy” that needed “Cooking in the oven for four minutes”.

We hydrated the soil in the polytunnel as it had dried up.

“We’re on a pirate ship, We’re the pirates”.

Mark Making 

 

We have done some amazing drawings this week that have been very detailed and involved speaking about different emotions of the people in each drawing.

“We’re in our bear hunt house”.

We said the bear couldn’t see or catch us from our ‘hidden house’.

We used the new polytunnel for a number hunt, some of us could recognize the big numbers from 10-20.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our tattie guessing game and purchased bags, the total number in the bucket was 230.  Well done to the winner with the closest guess of 205.

We tasted our tatties at snack time and thought they were yummy. We then used some to print in paint to create some great pictures.

Following on from all our tattie

work this week Miss Hay read us a Supertato story.

“Look I found some berries”.

Miss Young  found a rose hip, she cut it open us to see the seeds and to smell.

The autumn coloured rice has been popular this week for scooping, filling and pouring.

We built a den, lots of us could squeeze into it.

We loved Mr Travins singing to us whilst we had our snack.

“This is the airplane,We’re going to Africa”.

We had our gym lesson outdoors again, we did lots of energetic play, games and used great imagination and skills with the balls and the hoops.

We’ve been busy at the block play area making “hay for the horse” and “A Castle”, we did great team work to problem solve and  build.

We baked some cupcakes to end the week and use up cupboard ingredients, we looked carefully at the scales to weigh each ingredient out in grams.

WORLD BOOK DAY

We all dressed up for World Book Day. Lots of the children brought their favourite book to school with them and dressed up as a character from that book.

 

We played outside in our costumes

It was so sunny, we spent time outside in our costumes. We were all excited and did lots of role play with the outfits.

Later on we dressed up in some of the nursery fancy dress and swapped costumes with each other.

Throughout the day we looked at all the different books and listened to and read stories.

The staff all were different characters from books
Woody the cowboy from Toy Story
The princess and the frog

Happy New Year

Fun in the water tray
Trying so hard to pick up the bears with tongs
Drawing and practicing writing numbers
Colouring in Peppa Pig on the smart board
Helping each other to pick different sounds
Making a frozen jigsaw
Finished jigsaw, they were delighted with the outcome
Making pictures
Helping ourselves to lunch today to encourage independence.

Happy New Year Everyone. It was so good having everyone back in today. The children were very excited to tell us what they got from Santa. We had great fun in the nursery today, craft table , playing games, jigsaws, drawing with chalk and we went outside too.

We also introduced ‘serving yourself at snack and dinner’. The children enjoyed putting their own food on the plates and choosing how much food they wanted. There was good communication about passing plates of food and jugs of water. Great work everyone 🙂

GYM TIME IN THE SUN

Everyone agreed it was a great idea to have our gym time outside on Tuesday because it was such a lovely day.

We played throwing games with different sized balls into a hoop and our accuracy improved with practice. We did some really fast running to collect balls and colour-match them into each corner of the muti-court.

We even had time to visit the playpark before we went inside for lunch.

Hula-hooping

Happy Halloween

 

On Monday the children coming to nursery dressed up. We made potions and had lots of fun mixing everything together. The children enjoyed being outside and running around, playing lots of different games with each other. We also loved doing signalong, where we were learning the different signs for food!