Autumn 1

Well done Nursery for being super stars this half term. 🌟

You have all made such fantastic progress and have settled so well. We are very pleased. 😊

Have a wonderful break. 

Wednesday 25th October, 2023 

Mary, Mother of Jesus 🙏🏼

Today in our RE lesson, we have been learning about Mary. 
We talked about Mary being the Mother of Jesus and that 

we celebrate Mary in the months of May and October. 

We went on a walk around school to see if we could find any statues of Mary. 
We found one in the prayer garden in the big playground and we found one in the corridor. 
We tried to say a little prayer and showed Mary how well we can do our prayer hands. 
 

Well done Nursery, you walked around school so quietly and sensibly 😊

Monday 23rd October, 2023

🍁 Nature art 🍁

Today, nursery went on a nature walk on the school field to collect some natural materials for our art work. We found: 

🍁 Leaves 

🍁 Sticks 

🍁Moss/Grass

We also found some exciting things hiding amongst the trees and leaves. We found:

🍁 A birds nest high up in the trees

🍁 A slug hiding on a rock

🍁 A wiggly worm hiding in the leaves. 

Some of us had a turn holding the worm. It was cold and wriggly 🪱

When we went back into class, we stuck all our natural materials on a big piece of paper with some glue. We had lots of messy fun 😁 
Well done nursery! 
 

Friday 20th October, 2023 

✨ Glittery Colour potions ✨

Today in nursery, we made colour potions. 
We reused plastic bottles, filled our bottles with glitter and

food colouring and then we gave them a big big shake. 

We had so much fun making our potions 🧪✨

Thursday 19th October, 2023 

🎆 Firework safety 🎆

Today in nursery, we have been learning how to stay safe around fireworks. 
We now know that only adults touch fireworks and that we should keep our pets safe inside because they might get scared by the loud bangs. 

To support our learning about fireworks, we made a group firework picture on the whiteboard and then we made our own paintings of fireworks using bright colours and glitter.

This activity also helped us continue with our learning of recognising colours. 
 

Stay safe around fireworks 🎇 

Tuesday 17th October, 2023

🍂 We went on a leaf hunt 🍂

Today in our understanding of the world lesson, we went on a leaf hunt. 
We talked about the season of Autumn, the colour the leaves turn in autumn and why they fall off the trees.  
 

We had so much fun collecting leaves 🍁 

Monday 16th October, 2023

Monday Maths

Today in maths nursery completed colour sorting activities. 
Our favourite activity was sorting the fruit and vegetables in the correct coloured basket. 
We did super listening and had lots of fun sorting colours. 
 

Well done nursery! 

Friday 13th October, 2023

☔️ Rainy Friday fun ☔️

Today, we have had lots of fun in nursery.  
In our story Brown Bear, Brown bear there is a goldfish.

So to help us with our learning of the story, we glued scales onto our goldfish. 
 

We also had a dough disco session, we really enjoyed making our little fingers strong using the play dough. We also had fun playing with the building blocks and playing in the home corner. 
 

Another fantastic week. Well done nursery 

Thursday 12th October, 2023

🎨 Brown Bear plate painting 🎨

In nursery, we have been learning the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear. 
We made paper plate brown bears to help us remember the story and to help us recognise our colours. We dabbed brown paint on the paper plate with a sponge, stuck on a brown paper and black felt nose, stuck on googly eyes and stuck on cupcake case ears. 
We had lots of fun making our bears 🐻
 

Week beginning 2nd October, 2023

What a busy week.

This week we have been so busy having fun with our learning in nursery. 

Please have a look through the photos to see what things we got up have done 

Friday 29th September, 2023

☀️ Fun in the sun ☀️

In nursery today, we went into receptions playground to play on the trikes and balance bikes. We had so much fun and had a really good go at pushing the peddles on the tricycles independently.

After, we went into the hall with reception to join in on their music lesson. We played the steelpans with them. It was a little tricky but we had a fantastic time. 

Well done Nursery for good sitting and good listening during music. 

Thursday 28th September, 2023

Super work this week on our fine motor skills in class 🙌 and gross motor skills in PE 🏃‍♀️ 

Nursery really enjoy their PE lessons!

In maths we’ve been using positional language to describe where things are - in, on, under and between.

The children also chose to recap bigger and smaller whilst acting out the story from this week, Where’s Spot.

The children have been playing so nicely in the home corner, sharing and taking turns.

Wednesday 27th September, 2023

The owls came to visit

This morning, we got to see some owls with reception.

We sat nice and quietly so we didn't frighten the owls. 

We saw 4 different types of owl.

They were:

an African white faced owl, an Eagle owl, a Mottled owl and a Great grey owl. 

We had so much fun seeing the owls.

The great grey owl even flew over our heads.

Tuesday 26th September, 2023

Another sunny day in nursery

Today in nursery, we carried on our maths learning about numbers 1&2 and the positions of the bears. We used our positional language to tell our teachers where the bears were on the chairs. We also used our bigger and smaller learning when building towers with the blocks. 

To carry on our Literacy learning, We hid Spot in porridge oats to see if we can find and hide him. We also explored different types of sea animals in the water tray outside that was filled with gellibaff. We had so much fun searching for fish and whales. We used the binoculars to search for birds. We found seagulls and pigeons. 
 

We are so happy that it has been sunny enough to go on the slide today. We love playing on the slide 😁☀️

Monday 25th September, 2023

Where’s Spot?

Our story this week is Where’s Spot?.

In line with our story, we played hide and seek with Spot in our outdoor learning area.

We had so much fun hiding and searching for Spot and using our new vocabulary

(Under, next, on, behind and in front).

Friday 22nd September, 2023

What a busy week we’ve had in nursery!

This week in nursery we have been so busy having fun with our learning. 

• In maths, we have been learning to compare sizes bigger and smaller with the teddy bears, created patterns with the linking elephants and cubes, painted our own patterns and recapped our numbers 1 and 2.

• We developed our fine motor skills by doing a dough disco and using the scissors to practise cutting. 
   
• We tried new fruits and vegetables during snack time. 

• We managed to get outside for some outdoor learning and playtime before the rain came.

Another fantastic week. Well done nursery 😊

Wednesday 20th September, 2023

Chester the dog came to visit

This afternoon Chester the dog came to visit us.
He comes to our school so we can read to him. 
We sat very quietly so we didn’t frighten him and he let us stroke him. 

We loved seeing Chester 🐶

Friday 15th September, 2023
                                             Friday fun

Today in nursery, we have been learning the numbers 1 and 2. To help us with our learning we have been searching in the sand tray for the numbers and the numicon.

We had Music with Miss Scoines where we played the tambourine and sang songs. 
 

We have also enjoyed playing outdoors in our outdoor area and in the muga. 
 

A fantastic week nursery. Well done 😊

Thursday 14th September, 2023

A busy day in nursery

Today in nursery, we have had a very busy day.

We have:

• explored different animals and painted/collages a picture of a giraffe
• enjoyed our PE lesson with Mr Davis. We did different activities to help us recognise our colours. We collected different coloured balls and put them in the matching hoop.
• started painting our self portraits 

We have had so much fun today. 
Well done nursery 😊

Wednesday 13th September, 2023

Outdoor exploring

Today in nursery, we went out in the sunshine to explore in our outdoor area. We looked through binoculars to see what we can find, crawled through the tunnel and drew what we had found. We had lots of fun, Well done nursery 😊

Tuesday 12th & Wednesday 13th September, 2023

Gross Motor Skills

Today in Nursery, we practiced our gross motor skills with Mr Davis. We climbed and walked carefully on the key stage 1 equipment and we played a traffic light game to practice our awareness of the people in the space around us. We also played with balls and jumped through hula hoops.

We had a lot of fun. Thank you Mr Davis