Today we had lots of Halloween fun in the nursery!  We all dressed up and went guising around the school.  Our disguises were so good that Mrs Ferguson didn’t even recognise us!  We sang a Halloween song to everyone and were even rewarded with a treat from Mr Herman!

When we got back to the nursery we had worms for snack! (looked a bit like spaghetti!)        

Then we enjoyed dooking for apples too!

Yesterday in the nursery some of us had lots of fun in the rain!

We put on waterproofs and wellies and went out to splash in lots of puddles!  

We really enjoyed getting wet and making big splashes!

Last week some new resources arrived in the nursery.  Our favourite is our new building bricks which we used to build big towers.  We were great at sharing the bricks with our friends and asked each other if we could borrow bricks to make our towers bigger when we ran out.  Using careful building and counting skills we worked out that it took 16 bricks to be as tall as Kayla and 17 bricks to be as tall as Zak.

Over the last week we have enjoyed taking our learning outside.  We went out to find autumn leaves in the local area and now have been using these in our art work and for sorting at our science table.

We got duck food and went to feed the ducks and swans.  We noticed that the cygnets feathers are getting lighter and they were also really hungry!

In the nursery we recycled some of our yogurt pots to make bird feeders to hang in the garden.  We were excited to see some of the birds eating from them when we went out to play but found out that it was very difficult to get pictures of them!

Last week the nursery went out in the local area to look for signs.

We found lots of different ones and many of us used the cameras to take photos of them.                         

We noticed that signs can have words, numbers and pictures on them.

What signs do you see on the way to nursery?      

The nursery have been very busy as we have joined in with ‘Walk your Wig Off’ and have been fundraising for Jeans for Genes.  We are proud to announce that we raised £60.70 and would like to thank all of the nursery families for all of their support.         

Over the last week we have been looking at building and construction.  Some of the children went for a walk and saw the building work near the Lanthorn park and wondered what was happening.  They went to ask in the Lanthorn and we are beginning to talk about the different plans they have.  We will let you know when we know more!

Our colour of the week this week is blue.  We have been using blue paint in our art activities and are looking forward to wearing our jeans on Thursday (p.m. group) and Friday (a.m. group) for Jeans for Genes day.  We are also joining the rest of the school by taking part in  ‘walk your wigs off’ on those days too.  What a busy week!

We have really enjoyed welcoming some of our new nursery children and their families this week.  Everyone has settled into nursery life really well and our returning children have been especially helpful showing their new friends all of the different areas of the nursery.

We were very excited this week when we found a bucketful of dinosaurs with a letter from Harry asking if we could look after them while he is on holiday.  We have been busy reading some of the Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs stories and put out a dinosaur land for them to stay in.  The stories have given us even more ideas of things we can do about dinosaurs and we look forward to continuing with this theme next week.

The past few weeks in the nursery the children have been learning how to care for others. They had the opportunity to observe the life cycle of a butterfly and let them free in the nursery garden.

Newsletter June