Could we remind you that we are looking for donations for the Christmas Hamper, many thanks.
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Thursday 19th November
AM and PM children were given Adventure Ted today, can’t wait to hear about his adventures over the weekend!
Fairly dry day today so both AM and PM children managed to get out to play in the Nursery Garden. We had the bikes out and made them parking bays, lots of children loved playing a numbers ladder game on the steps – lots of counting! We are busy making things to sell at the School Christmas Sale – Little Christmas Stockings, Reindeer Food and Baubles (a reminder that if you want to order a bauble then it must be ordered by next Thursday at the latest). The Christmas Fair is Thursday 3rd December from 2pm, lots of enterprise crafts to buy and tea/coffee in the school hall. We have also been busy practicing our Nativity Songs – sounding really lovely.
A reminder that ante-pre school children need either a shepherd or angel costume for the Nativity – please let us know by early next week if this is a problem, thank you.
Monday 16th November 2015
The children are really enjoying the transport theme with lots of pictures created by printing different wheel tracks. We have created a large road map on the wall and hope to add buildings and vehicles to it this week. PM children created an amazing zoo using the large building blocks and added the small world animals – what fun! We heard about Adventure Ted’s weekend from both AM and PM children – both Ted’s have had a good weekend going to gym club, out on a bike ride and even in a big tractor!
We handed out the poem of the week today – 5 current buns. Please have fun learning this at home with your child, we have been talking about rhyming words and off course lots of opportunities for counting to 5 and back down to 0.
Please remember to send in your bauble orders, thank you.
Monday 9th November 2015
New Topic: Transport/Road Safety Responsive Planning: Role Play area is a shop
AM boys and girls enjoyed playing in the shop, we made shopping list note pads to write down all our shopping! In drama we talked about different types of transport and pretended to move like – tractors, police cars, bikes and vans. We made play dough and used it to make cakes and bread to sell in our shop.
PM children enjoyed using fluorescent paint to make hand prints for our new Road Safety topic. We talked about wearing bright colours so we can be seen if out in the dark. We used Bee Bot to follow directions on a map – we dressed him up as a police car, ambulance, fire engine and pirate ship.
We urgently need old magazines and junk for models, thank you.
The new Newsletter is out today, lots of dates for your diary for events before Christmas. Bulletin is also out today.
Children in Need: wear bright colours – donation £1 Decorate a cake – 20p
Thursday 12th – PM session
Friday 13th – AM session
Friday 6th November
We had lots of fun turning our Nursery into a shop today! For snack we all made fireworks biscuits – they were yummy! The music teacher was in Nursery today and we were singing songs about going to the shops!
Have a lovely weekend!
Thursday 4th November
Today we spoke about being safe at a bonfire/fireworks party. Children continued to make model fireworks and to paint pictures of fireworks. In PE we further explored finding a space and different ways of moving around. The adventure Teds went home today and we are looking forward to finding out what they have been up to on Monday.
Monday 2nd November
What fun the children had today making models, painting and gluing firework models! AM children did some drama using Handel’s music from The Royal Fireworks – we were spinning like catherine wheels and zooming like rockets! We made sparkly playdough which we used to make flames for rockets and sparkles on fireworks. We sang our new Fireworks song – the children have all brought a copy home to have some fun with at home. The song provides great opportunities for counting to 10 and back from 10, which is something we have at the maths table just now. The nursery bulletin went home today – please have a read to see what we have planned for this week.
Monday 12th October
We have started our new topic today – Music Makers.
We have started making an outdoor music wall – looking good and sounding good. If anybody has old pots pans etc which we could attach to the wall we would be most grateful.
PM children did some listening activities during music time today.
AM children did some drama – moving to different animal music and playing musical statues to help our listening skills.
Both groups did a science activity today, we filled different glass jars with water to see what sound they made when they were full and empty.
Friday 9th October
Today at nursery the children were still interested in painting and drawing scarecrow’s and hedgehogs, we cut some out and put them on the wall. We played outside on the bikes and scooters. During our music lesson we were tapping out rhythm’s on the claves and rhythm sticks, we played Farmer’s in the Den.
Thursday 8th October
AM children did gym today with Mrs Fletcher, we were playing games where the children had to listen to the instructions carefully. We were continuing with ball skills today and practicing throwing and catching.
AM and PM children – In science we were looking at sunflowers and what happens to them at this time of year. We studied their seed heads using magnifying glasses and recorded what they look like by drawing a picture. We talked about how these seeds would make new plants next spring/summer.
PM children did gym outside today – lots of opportunities for play in the sunshine!
Our numeracy sorting and matching assessments are now completed but we are still encouraging the children to use these materials to develop the associated language, maybe they would like to do some sorting at home? (We have been sorting by colour, shape, type of object or animal etc)
Children brought home their bread today which they made yesterday – some lovely smells from the nursery kitchen! We hope they enjoy eating it at home and telling you how they shaped it into rolls.
