W/C 09.12.24

This week we have been reading the story 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs. We have looked at both the book and the film and have had lots of discussions about what is happening in the story. We have been practicing our cutting skills by cutting out circles and putting them together to make our own snowmen. We have also been exploring fake snow in the sensory tray.  

On Friday the children took home christmas decoration templates for them to decorate at home. We had some beautiful babubles returned which we hung on our Christmas tree.

W/C 02.12.24

We have concluded our work around 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' by learning about different types of bears. We looked at brown bears, black bears, pollar bears and panda bears. We learnt about where they lived and what they liked to eat. We then chose which bear we wanted to represent and created a mask from a range of materials. We also finished our representations by making caves out of paper and painting them before adding our bears.

In our cave we have added torches and the children have had great fun using them to read their books  and mark making in the dark.  Outside we have been retelling the story using props in the tuff tray. 

W/C 25.11.24

We are continuing to do work for our 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' display and this week we have made our big, dark forest pictures. We have made ourselves a cave in the nursery and sponge printed the sides to represent the foliage around it.  On Friday we dipped our feet in brown paint to make muddy footprints 'squelch, squerch'. 

W/C 18.11.24

This week we have started to read the story 'We're going on a bear hunt' by Michael Rosen. We have been making different representations of some of the obstacles the family encounter on their bear hunt. So far we have made grass, river and snowstorm pictures.  

As part of Anti bullying week ,Tuesday was odd socks day, so we came to school in odd socks. We have been filling up socks in the sand tray and we designed our own odd socks. To reinforce the idea that we are all different we made shape aliens and they were all different!!!  

We ended the week by coming to school in our pyjamas to support Children in need. We developed our fine motor skills by designing Pudsey's clothes and then cutting them out and sticking them onto our Pudsey bears. Many of the children decided to stick their Pudsey bear onto their jumpers as they had done with the poppies earlier in the week.  

W/C 04.11.24

We have returned with lots of enthusiasm for our topic on fireworks and many of the children were able to link it back to the work we did on Diwali before half term. We have made firework pictures using paint and on the interactive white board. 

During free play we have been developing our fine motor skills by making firework marks in sand, making patterns with elastic bands on the geo boards and using small tools on the creative table. We also had an invasion of robots where the children found cardboard boxes and made faces on them to pretend to be a robot. This proved to be a very popular activity. The girls decided to decorate the home corner for a diwali party which again was accessed by many of the children. Outside some of the children have been busy making our own version of hopscoth.

On Friday we began thinking about Remembrance Day and mixed up red glace icing to spread on biscuits to look like poppys. After eating them we washed and dried our plates and bowls.

W/C 21.10.24

This week we have been learning about the festival of Diwali. We have been reading the story of Rama and Sita and have been making salt dough diva lamps. We have developed our  fine motor skills by cutting out diva lamps from paper and using cotton buds to paint mendhi patterns on hand templates. We also looked at the colours on rangolio patterns and made our own. 

We made patterns from our challenge cards and had great fun scooping out the seeds of a pumpkin. Outside we have been exploring the sounds different musical instruments make and we worked together to put the blocks in a long line for us to balance along and move from different levels. some of us practiced our jumping as well.

W/C 14.10.24

This week we have been reading the story 'the Colour Monster' by  Anna Llenas and learning about our feelings and emotions. We made our own colour monsters and talked about what feeling they represented. 'Yellow is happy', 'red is angry, grrr'. We then made emotion puppets by drawing faces representing different emotions.

During free play we have been practicing mark making by copying patterns using felt pens and there was a lot of interest in playing with the babies. The children decided they wanted to make beds for the dolls so they found cardboard boxes and decorated them to make beds. Outside we have been developing our cutting skills by cutting herds and leaves. In the sand pit we have been using the foam bricks to make our own walls. 

W/C 07.10.24

We have continued our topic 'All about me'  by learning about our bodies. We have been learning to name our body parts and think about what we use them for. The children looked in the mirror and used paper plates to create their face. 

On the carpet we had hospital role play and the children took on the roles of doctors and nurses and plenty of toys were given injections 'to make them better'. There was a lot of interest in the Xray photos so we decided to make our own skeleton pictures.    

W/C 30.09.24

This week we have been learning about our families. During group time we looked at lots of different types of family and some of the children brought in family pictures to share with their friends. We have drawn representations of our families and made frames for our family photos. we have also made lots of family member puppets at the creative table.

W/C 23.09.24

This week we have been reading the story 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell. The children have been busy making their own owl babies by using cooton wool balls to print on their templates and the adding feathers and features. They worked verey carefully and have produced some lovely representations. We have also been exploring natural materials to make nests for the owl babies.

We have had a lot of rain this week but that has not stopped us getting outside and having lots of fun jumping in the puddles with our rain suits on. We have even given the taxi a wash as well while we were there. 

W/C 16.09.24

We have continued to welcome our newest members and help them settle into the nursery.  the children are beginning to understand the routines and their play has been very focused. We have used material to make collage figures of ourselves for our display . Some of the  children have been demonstrating their mark making skills on the whiteboards.

W/C 09.09.24

We have made a great start to the new year and our new children are settling in well. We have been exploring the environment, both inside and outside and making lots of new friendships.  Group times have involved learning our names and singing lots of different nursery rhymes to support our language. This term our topic is 'All about me'. We will be learning about our families, how we are all unique and what we have in common. We will learn to talk about our feelings and how we can manage them.