World Book Day in Nursery
What a super day we have had celebrating world book day! We have read our favourite stories and came to Nursery dressed as our favourite characters too!
We have also had two special treats today! This morning we visited year 3 who read some of their favourite picture books and stories to us…
Valentines in Nursery
This week we have been celebrating valentines in Nursery. We have created our own Valentines cards using heart confetti and a heart shaped hole punch to creat love bugs. We have also been baking some valentines biscuits. We used butter, sugar and flour to create a shortbread dough. We then rolled…
Throwing and catching
This week we have been practising our throwing and catching skills. To do this we have been learning how to play the game hot potato. We started with a small circle rolling and gently passing the ball to each other. We have practised so much that we were able to play a huge game of hot potato…
Celebrating Chinese New Year in Nursery
This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year.
We have been practising some Chinese numbers and symbols in the fine motor area using some paint brushes and we have also had a go at some Chinese New Year themed yoga. We practised moving and being like the different animals who raced…
Nursery PSHE Autumn Term
Last term in Nursery we introduced Jigsaw for PSHE. We met our Jigsaw friends Jigsaw Jenie and Jerrie Cat. The first topic we covered was ‘Being me in my world’. We practised the rules and routines, and we have come to really like doing ‘Calm Time’. This is where we sit still and quiet, taking…
Learning about being kind and unkind
This week we have been reading ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ by Julia Donaldson. In the story George the giant is kind to everyone he meets, helping them in different ways. We have also been looking at ways in which we are kind in Nursery. Lots of children said that sharing and playing with each…
Circle Time in Nursery
Our first day back in Nursery and we couldn’t wait to share all the exciting things we had been up to over the Christmas holidays!
We used talking turtle to help us wait our turn to speak and share. We loved talking to each other about Santa visiting our houses, our favourite presents and all…
Christmas Jumper Day in Nursery
We had lots of fun celebrating Christmas Jumper Day! We all came dressed in our favourite Christmas jumpers; we had a go at designing and colouring our very own Christmas jumper too. We had so much fun doing this we forgot to take some photos.
We then finished the day with some party games and…
Nursery Christmas printing
This week in Nursery Christmas has been in full swing. One of our favourite activities we have done was using Lego brick and stickle bricks and paint to print and make Christmas pictures.
Nursery Christmas sing a long and elf day
Today we had our Christmas sing a long. We throughly enjoyed singing up on the stage for our families. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!
We came dressed as elves and enjoyed an elf party afterwards. We played party games, made some elf crafts and enjoyed some party food and a…
Nursery Christmas Ginger Biscuits
This afternoon Nursery have enjoyed baking and decorating some Christmas ginger biscuits. We put golden syrup, egg yolk, dairy free butter and some biscuit mix into a bowl and mixed it all together. They baked in the oven for 15 minutes.
Once ready, we let them cool down. We then decorated the…
Nursery: Summer Season
As well as learning about the winter season through our tuff tray explorations we have also been learning about summer. We have been making a summer craft to help us learn about the summer season. The children used different shapes, linked to our maths work, to create their own sunshine. They used…