Nursery: Blog items
Nursery and the Nativity Story
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 2:32pm
Nursery really enjoyed learning about the story of the first Christmas and where fascinated to hear all about baby Jesus. They were able to talk about Mary and Joseph and loved learning about the gifts the Three Wise Men brought for the baby. We used some props to tell the story and then watched a short cartoon. The children then used the Nativity set to retell the story with their friends.
Nursery Christmas Stay and Play
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 2:23pm
We had a super time this week when our Mums and Dads joined us for a special Christmas Stay and Play. Everyone made some Christmas Crafts and Iced a tasty Christmas biscuit. Stay and Play sessions are a great opportunity for our parents and carers to spend time with their children in the nursery environment and build realtionships with the nursery staff.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 2:45pm
After visiting us at the school Christmas Fair, Santa asked if we would like use his Grotto for a magical story time. Well, of course we were staright there! We shared some wonderful Christmas stories in the Grotto and the children shared their own experiences of Christmas.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 2:40pm
Santa's beard was out of control so we decided to give it a trim in time for Christmas! At the same time the children were able to practise their scissor and fine motor control and also have conversations about their own experiences (of hair cuts - not beard trims!) The childern were super at sharing the scissors and helping each other to make cuts in the paper.
Date: 28th Nov 2024 @ 3:11pm
We are always thinking of fun ways to develop the children's fine motor skills. This week we found a fun and very messy way! Through exploring slime to children are able to manipulte the slime in different ways by pulling, stretching and squeezing. They also have to try really hard to pick the slime up because it's ever so slippery! This activity was also great for developing langauge and communication as the children talk to each other about the slime and exlore new vocabulary to describe it.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 4:58pm
We have been reading the story "There's an Alien in Your Book" by Tom Fletcher and we thought it would be fun to make our own Aliens. To do this, the children had to follow some instructions and add the correct number of items to create an Alien. The children were learning to recognise numbers and to count out a given amount of objects from a group.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 2:42pm
The children loved exporing a special bag filled with Autumnal objects this week. They selected an object and then we discussed what it looked, felt and smelt like. The children came up with some fabulous words to describe the objects including spiky, crunchy and smooth. They also had to listen really carefully to their friends and take on board their ideas.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 2:33pm
This week nursery have been talking about the changes we can see outside in the Autumn. We have been looking at different coloured leaves and talked about why they change colour and have explored these colours through painting. The children have had lots of opportunites to look at autumnal objects and have also created some fabulous leaf people.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 8:29pm
Nursery joined the rest of the school and celebrated our differences by wearing odd socks. We read a story called "It's Ok To Be Different" by Todd Parr that looks at all the ways we can be different and how it is important to embrace our differences.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 8:16pm
Nursery learnt all about Remembrance Day and spent time thinking about members of the Armed Forces. The children planted poppies and then took apart in the whole school Remembrance Service. They also painted some beautiful poppies for the soldiers.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:58pm
The children loved using some open ended resources to create their own rocks, They had to select the pieces they wanted and decide how they would attach them together. They also had to chat to their friends about the resources and share and take turns.
Nursery Go Up with a Whizz, Bang, Pop
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:43pm
Nursery have been learning all about fireworks and have got very sparkly in the process! We have been practising our mark making skills to create some wonderful firework pictures, made some star soup outside and created some firework sparklers.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 9:37pm
This week across school we have been celebrating Anti-Bullying week. We started the week off with the a whole school assembly based around this year's theme ‘Choose Respect’. Throughout the week the children have been learning about being respectful and why this is such an important skill for life. Alongside this they have also been exploring the theme of bullying including what it means, different types of bullying, what to do if you are being bullied, the difference of a bystander and upstander, how to solve conflicts and what discrimination means. We finished of the week by inviting everyone to wear odd socks to celebrate everyone’s differences and promote kindness. What a fantastic week we have had!
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 9:44pm
Nursery got in to the Halloween spirit this week and explored all things spooky! The children have been busy making potions, doing some spooky mark making and creating witches out of shapes. There was also some very spooky, slimey jelly and the children used their fine motor skills to rescue the spiders stuck inside!
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week we have been celebrating Halloween. As part of our celebrations we have been counting spiders legs! We talked about what 8 looked like and how a spider has 4 legs on each side of its body.The children then counted 4 legs on to each side of their spider and tried really hard to stop when they reached 4!
Nursery and the Colour Monster
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 9:30pm
We have been reading the story "The Colour Monster" and learning about the different emotions we feel. The children have been thinking about what can make us feel happy and sad. What it feels like to be angry and how we can keep ourselves nice and calm.
Nursery, Some Sponges and a Giant Caterpillar
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 9:18pm
Sometimes all you need is a giant caterpillar, some water and a couple of sponges and then watch the learning unfold! We had provided water and sponges in the outdoor provision so the children could wash the windows but quiet often they have their own ideas! The children decided that the caterpillar was very dirty and needed a good scrub! They worked together with some children pouring water on the caterpillar and others scrubbing him with the sponges. They talked to each other as they worked about how the caterpillar had got dirty, commenting when he was clean and negotiating using resouces. The end result was a very shiny caterpillar!
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 2:29pm
Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. They can all join in beautifully with the story and loved using musical instuements to make the sound of swishy swashy grass and squelchy squerchy mud. They created some fabulous bear puppets, counted and sorted bears by colour and even baked some delicious bear paw print biscuits.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 2:20pm
After reading the story "Owl Babies" the children were really interested in owls. So you can imagine their excitment when four real life owls came to visit! The children throughly enjoyed leaning about the different tyrpes of owls, where they live and what they like to eat. They even got to hold Midge who is a very wise owl at 13 yeasr old!
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 2:53pm
It's amazing how much learning the children can take from one activity! This week we have been using small coloured animals to practise our counting. But, at the same time, the children also developed their fine motor skills by using tweezers, sorted objects by colour and learnt to share and take turns with their friends!
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 2:44pm
Everyday at Nursery, the children have lots of opportunities to develop their fine motor skills, Strengthing their finger muscles is essential in supporting a good pencil grip. The children all love messy play and this week they discoverd some bears stuck in jelly! They had to rescue the bears, but weren't allowed to use their hands! We supplied tweezers and spoons and the children had a wonderful time rescuing the bears and made their finger muscles stonger all at the same time!
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 3:04pm
The children have really enjoyed listening to the story "Owl Babies". It's a great story for resssuring those who might be a little unsettled that mummy or daddy will always come back and get them, The children have been practising counting by making three owls to go on tree. They have been building their fine motor muscles by collecting worms for the owls to eat and have created some super owl art work.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 2:52pm
Every Thursday,Nursery enjoy a PE session with Mr Ratcliffe. Not only is this great for thier physical development but it also supports their communication and langauge development as they listen carefully to instructions and then follow them. The children are also learning to take turns with their friends and to develeop their self-control by waiting for their turn.
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 2:36pm
You never know who you're going to find in the nursery garden! This week we found a very large slug! The children were fascinated watching him move around and noticed that his antennaes went into his head when they touched something he didn't like. We talked about what the slug might like to eat and decided it was probably leaves and not pizza! We were all cheering the slug on as he tried to climb the steps. We're not sure if he made it, but the next day he wasn't there so we think he must of reached the top!
Nursery Let Me See Those Funky Fingers
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 2:22pm
It is really important for the nursery children to have stong finger muscles to support a good pencil grip. There are always lots of opportunites for children to develop these muscles in continous proviosn both indoors and outdoors.
This week the children have been using tweezers to catch worms for the owl babies - it's very tricky as the worms were very slippery! Outside the children were investigating sunflowers. They pulled the petals off, mushed up the leaves and carefully pulled apart the middle of the flower. The children are goinfg to have the biggest finger muscles in town by the end of the year!
