Nursery Weekly Blogs

This week we have been talking about how the world around us is changing as the seasons change to autumn.  We have used litter pickers to collect up leaves and created small world gardens to play with characters in. 
 

We investigated a pumpkin. We drew it, talked about what it looked at felt…

This week we have been singing the wheels on the bus. We made bus stops in the garden and pretended to drive around collecting our friends on the way. 
 

We also used the large construction objects to build a bus, we took turns to be the bus driver. 
 

In phonics we talked about words that…

This week we have been exploring water and boats. Our rhyme of the week was row, row, row your boat. We sang our rhyme in loud, quiet, fast and slow voices. We also drew long chalk rivers in the garden and used when playing with small world boats. 
 

In the water tray we looked at using…

This week our phonics rhyme has been 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive. We used our voices to make sounds from the rhyme e.g splash. We said the sounds in a short and a long way. 

We used our fine motor skills to save fish from a net. We used our finger and thumb to create a pincer…

This week we have been continuing to settle into the nursery by taking part in some group activities. On Monday we chose books to take home from the library. If your child bought a book home please return it on Monday so that they can choose another one. If you child does not attend on Mondays…

We’ve had another fantastic week in Nursery. We have continued talking about the new routines in Nursery including where our nursery toys belong, how to use the outside equipment and where we can find tissues if we have a runny nose!

We have been reading lots of stories and singing lots of…

This week 

This week we welcomed the children into Nursery for the first time. They all did a fantastic job of coming in and putting their coats and water bottles away. We have spent lots of time this week talking about the new routines in Nursery including how to tidy up, where to find the…

Well done children for coping so well in another hot week! 
 

We have enjoyed lots of water play this week and spent lots of time in the garden. We have been using the rackets and balls to develop our hand eye coordination and play tennis like the stars at Wimbledon! 
 

The children…

This week we talked  about the journey that zebras go on across the Sarengeti. We found the continent Africa on the world map and looked at how far the zebras travel. We also talked about the other animals that we could find living on the Sarengeti. 
 

We explored the Reception classrooms and…

Well done to all of the children for coping so well in the heat this week. 

We have taken part in lots of water play this week including playing with animals, sprinklers, soaking our feet and playing with ice. It’s been a very good way to cool down. 
 

We have used our time in the cool air…

This week we continued learning about “We’re going on a bear hunt.” We used junk modelling materials to create caves for a bear. We used different patterned paper, tape and glue to decorate our caves. 
Any donations of boxes for junk modelling would be greatly appreciated! 
 

We have been…

This week we have enjoyed starting our new topic ‘Where can we explore?’ 
We shared the story of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt.’ We talked about the different places that the family walk and made the noises to represent the different habitats. When it was raining we went out to the big playground…