Ladywell Nursery School

We have had a fantastic week in Nursery this week with lots of Christmas fun.

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the staff at Ladywell Nursery School

We have set up our very own office with a typewriter kindly donated by Lynne’s daughter.  The children have thoroughly enjoyed using this and have been building on their knowledge and understanding of letter names and sounds.

Wednesday was Christmas lunch day and the children enjoyed a delicious feast.

December has arrived and Christmas is in full swing.  We have had a busy week in Nursery decorating our tree and doing lots of Christmas activities.

Lots of creativity, teamwork and hard work to develop fine motor skills.

At the skills session, the children have been carrying out activities to develop their mathematical language and ability to order items according to size.

We have continued to explore the jobs of the people in the world that help us.  The children have been practising their bandaging and reenacting and creating lots of role-play situations.

The weather has turned cold, and some of the children requested soup to help warm them up after playing in the garden. So, the children made and thoroughly enjoyed tomatoes and roast pepper soup.  It was delicious.

Great independence and fine motor skills.

While discussing people who help us some children have been talking about their parents and carers and how they look after them and their siblings.  This sparked an interest in caring for and looking after babies.  Which then led to where babies come from.  Some parents have kindly shared their pregnancies, scans and baby photos.  We have been using a lot of mathematical language here when discussing time, size and measurement.

As we move into December let the Christmas madness begin.

Following on from our conversations about fireworks and keeping safe the children have begun talking about the people in the world that help us and the jobs that they do.  We hope to learn about the roles of different people such as firefighters, nurses, doctors and police officers.  The children have been engaging in lots of role-play and working hard on putting a story line in their play.  We have also used these opportunities to build on the children’s use and understanding of positional language.  For example “the firefighter is at the top of the ladder”

This week in Nursery we have had a fun-packed week.  The children have been taking part in lots of Halloween activities.  Through these activities, we have been learning about words that rhyme, developing the children’s understanding and use of the language of measure, developing counting skills and allowing them to express themselves through art activities.

This week in Nursery we have been continuing to work on the children identifying and writing their own names.

We have also been enjoying listening to traditional stories read by the adults or on the promethean board.  Some children have been using story cards to retell the story and sequence the story correctly.

We have also begun talking about up-and-coming Halloween.  Please have a look at our planning wall and floorbook to see what the children have been learning

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This week at Ladywell Nursery we have been out and about in the local environment.  The children are noticing and commenting on the changes that are taking place in the world around us.  We also went looking for some environmental print.  The children were very good at spotting letters and numbers in the world around us.   We had great fun at the park where lots of children challenged themselves on the climbing equipment, demonstrating fantastic gross motor skills

In the Nursery, we have set up a sandwich station and the children are making their own sandwiches for lunch.

We have began to notice changes in the world around us.   We have been on a few autumn walks in the community. We have collected, counted and sorted leaves and other autumn materials.  We have been talking about the changes in the weather and what the season is called.

As we move into Aurum we will be taking the children on some local walks to support learning about the changing seasons and what happens in the world around us