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Today, we went on an Autumn walk around our nursery. We found lots of different coloured leaves and now we are going to make leaf pictures. When you are out and about if you see any Autumn leaves please bring them into nursery for our craft area. Thank you!

We have  attached the learning overview for the week beginning 28.9.15. This gives you some insight in to what is happening this week in the nursery and allows you to discuss these activities with your child. Remember all the ideas are recorded in our floorbooks and come from the children themselves.outline of children’s learning ideas  28.9.15

Here are some photos of our most recent walk. It was a number walk and we spotted lots of numbers in the local environment. Unfortunately we have had to suspend our walks until term two while we do a volunteer recruitment to allow these walks to go ahead. You need to be disclosed for the walks but the disclosures are paid for and your time can be ‘ring fenced’ only for the occasional walk so it doesn’t have to be a huge commitment. Please let us know if you would like to take part in this fun event.

We have purchased three new bikes to add to our collection. Thank you for the increased snack money which enables us to get these additional resources for our nursery.

As this is a short week we are continuing the learning ideas from the previous week. However, the topic of Autumn will also be introduced.

 

We have  attached the learning overview for the week beginning 14.9.15. This gives you some insight in to what is happening this week in the nursery and allows you to discuss these activities with your child. Remember all the ideas are recorded in our floorbooks and come from the children themselves.outline of children’s learning ideas 14.9.15

Soon we are going to buy a new dolls house for the nursery and we would like to give the children some choice in this. We are asking every child to vote for their favourite one. They will need to look at pictures 1, 2 and 3 and decide which one they like the best. We will provide a form for an adult to record their choice. Thank you again for making this purchase possible by paying £1.50 for our snack fund. There is a preview of the dolls houses attached for you to look at. Sorry, the quality of pictures is poor.  dolls house 1    dolls house 2   dolls house 3

During the week we take time to sit with various small groups of children and listen to their ideas. We write these down for them on a floor book, sometimes they illustrate their thoughts on the floor book too. We take these ideas forward in our planning. We have attached a wee overview of our plans for this week and we hope it gives you a flavour of some of the contexts of the learning taking place. It should give you some insight when discussing your child’s activities in nursery with them. An overview like this will be available most weeks on the blog and displayed in our nursery. outline of children’s learning ideas 7.9.15

We are planning to start our weekly walks in the community again. Our first walk will be on Wednesday 9th of September. Remember we need volunteers for the walk to take place so please come along if you can. The morning walk sets off about 9.00 and the afternoon walk at around 12.25. If you drop off your child and stay to help with shoes and coats that would be great. We are planning an exciting number walk this week so we will be on the look out any numbers in the environment.