Category: Nursery

We have loved investigating gloop this week! we have used different amounts of cornstarch and water to creat different gloop textures. Some gloop felt watery and other gloop went very sticky. 

We also had a go at a lava lamp experiment! For this we used oil, water and dropped…

We celebrated world maths day with the help of the numberblocks.
We practised our counting skills, counting the objects in the picture, we then used a peg to choose the correct numberblock for the amount.
Our challenge was to try and build the numberblock too! 
 

This week in Nursery, we have been planting seeds linked to our topic “How does your garden and it’s creatures grow” and our story “Jaspers Beanstalk”.
We have learnt that a seed needs soil, water and sun to grow. We can’t wait to see how big our plants will grow! 
 

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What a super time have had in the Wonderdome!

We travelled to space and got to learn all about the planets and stars in the solar system. We even got to see what it was like on the moon. We loved that we were surrounded by the stars and planets, it was like we were really in space! 

We also…

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…

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…

This week in RE we have been learning about how we welcome people into our family.

We have been in the home corner where we have been able to role play looking after a new born baby. We have talked about what a new baby needs and how to help our grownups at home when a new baby arrives. Lots of…

Today we have been learning about the season of Winter. 
We were very lucky that the kitchen gave us some dairy free cream that we used in the tuff tray to make some snow. 
We were able to feel and taste the cream, while learning about which animals like the cold weather. We also talked about…

This half term our topic has been ‘Whats your favourite tale?’. 

We have loved reading lots of stories and exploring different fairytales using puppets. We have been through forests and up beanstalks to lands far away. Our top picks have been ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘The Gingerbread Man’, ‘The…

Last week’s bad weather didn’t stop us in Nursery! 
We suited up, put our wellies on and had lots of fun racing through puddles, jumping in muddy puddles, dancing in the rain and catching rain drops.

Nursery Fun Day and what a jam packed day we have had! 

We started with pass the parcel, we then took it in turns going on the bouncy castle and getting some summer themed tattoos. Before we knew it the ice cream van had arrived with a cold treat for us. (We didn’t get any photos of these as…

The Nursery children who are starting in our Reception class in September had a great time for transition morning in Reception. We read the story of the ‘Colour Monster’ and we then made face biscuits with different feelings. The children drew a self portrait of themselves and had lots of time in…