Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

This week in Nursery we have been practicing our numbers 1-5.
We waited patiently and took it in turns to roll the dice, recognise the number and pick the correct number of bears out of the pot. All of the children were able to recognise the numbers on the dice and count out the bears that they…

This week in Nursery we have been identifying and sorting shapes. We have been focusing on squares, triangles and circles. 

We have also learnt that some shapes have straight sides like a square and a triangle and other shapes are round like a circle. 
 

We have been learning about Remembrance Day, by creating our own poppies. We have learnt that Poppies were the only flower able to grow in all the mud after the fighting.
We have used tweezers and Pom poms to complete a poppy as well as using lots of red materials and paper plates to create a…

This week we have started to learn a little bit about Diwali. We have learnt that it is the Hindu festival of light.
We have been looking at Rangoli patterns. We noticed that they were often in a circular shape. 
We had a go at creating our own Rangoli patterns using the shapes on our light…

This week our older children have been reading the story - The Dot. In the story we met a little girl called Vashti who thought she couldn’t do any art. By the end of the story she discovered that she could, all she had to do was make a mark - a dot. 
We were feeling inspired by Vashti and…

This week in RE we have been learning about Welcome! 
We discussed what welcome means, lots of children said when someone comes in. We thought about the ways we feel welcome in Nursery and what we do. The children shared ideas of singing good morning songs, waving, smiling, saying hello, and…

We have loved celebrating Halloween today in Nursery! We came to Nursery dressed in spooky Halloween clothes, we enjoyed playing party games like pass the parcel and musical bumps. We also decorated some ghost biscuits and made some spooky potions. 
 

Last half term we have been learning about the different seasons. 
We started with a sorting activity of the different seasons. Sorting the different weather, plants, animals and activities you could do for each season. 
We discussed how the leaves on the trees change as the seasons change. We…

This week we have been learning about the different seasons. 
We started with a sorting activity of the different seasons. Sorting the different weather, plants, animals and activities you could do for each season. 
We discussed how the leaves on the trees change as the seasons change. We then…

This week we have been finding out about our families. 

We used family photos to help us create our pebble families, showing who we lived with. We also talked about the members of our family who live in different houses to us.
We then talked about our names and how they were unique and special…

Wow, what an amazing first few days back in Nursery. 

We have loved welcoming everyone, both old and new, into Nursery this week. 

We have enjoyed lots of sun, sand and water play in our outdoor area as well as lots of stories, songs and messy play. 

We have shared all things summer…

What a fabulous fun day we had yesterday! 

We loved getting our faces painted and jungle tattoos! We also enjoyed an ice cream treat, playing hook a duck and all the party games you can think of!