Blog Author: Mrs Palmer

This half term, Nursery are reading stories by Julia Donaldson. They have enjoyed sharing her stories and creating crafts. This week they made masks like the Highway Rat wore, using collage materials. 
 

Our Nursery children have been practising their fine motor skills by cutting spaghetti and jelly cubes with scissors. Outside, they have been making obstacle courses and using bats and balls. Lots of opportunities to develop their skills and build on their teamwork with others. 
 

This week, our Nursery 1 children have been reading the story The Smartest Giant in Town. We talked about how the giant looked in his different clothes and discussed how kind he was when he helped all of the other animals.

At the end of the week, the children drew pictures of the giant,…

Nursery enjoyed an Elf Party Day filled with games, dancing, and yummy treats. Nursery 1 even gave a little performance of one of their singalong songs for Nursery 2 and 3. Our little elves dressed up and had a wonderful day getting up to plenty of cheerful mischief!

Nursery wore Christmas jumpers for Christmas jumper day and donated money to Hospice at home. They also visited Santa’s Grotto and met Santa, who gave them all a chocolate treat. Ho ho ho! 
 

We have started our Christmas crafts in Nursery and have also been enjoying decorating our class Christmas tree. The children have been exploring cloud dough with Christmas shapes, dressing up, picking up bows with tweezers and making their own hot chocolate. The Christmas countdown has begun!
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This week Nursery have had fun in the provision with dinosaurs. They made dinosaur masks, role played with dinosaurs and did some dinosaur painting. There were lots of dinosaurs roaming around Nursery! We finished the week by baking dinosaur footprints.
 

Nursery have been learning the rhyme, ‘Miss Polly had a dolly’. They then role played as doctors in the tuff tray, looking after the babies. They put on masks and plasters and made sure the babies were better with medicine. 
 

Nursery have been having some car wash fun this week. They have been washing cars, trucks and trains with sponges and toothbrushes and lots of bubbles. There was lots of opportunities for the children to talk about their own cars at home and how they were washing them. The children were even…

Nursery took part in Nursery rhyme week. We rein acted Incy Wincy Spider in the water area with spiders and piping, collaged Baa Baa Black Sheep and made playdough 5 currant buns. The children also made a wall for Humpty Dumpty out of bricks and blocks and made a mouse to climb up the clock and…

In Nursery we celebrated Bonfire Night by making our own chocolate apples. The children dipped an apple in chocolate and then covered it in sprinkles. This was a popular activity and good enough to eat! We then ended our week with some sparklers, hot chocolate and a biscuit. Happy Bonfire Night! 
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In Nursery we have lots of equipment and toys to use. However sometimes natural or simple resources are the most fun to use! The children have been bringing in Autumn collections from home and one family had found giant leaves. The children loved using them as fans and playing games with them…