Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery page. The adults in Nursery are:
Monday (am Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley) (pm Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley)
Tuesday Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley
Wednesday (am Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley) (pm Mrs Secker and Miss Whiteley)
Thursday Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley
Friday Mrs Salter and Miss Whiteley
Miss Spencer is with us every lunchtime
Please see below for photographs and recent news from Nursery. For parents/carers of Nursery children, photographs will also be shared with you on Tapestry.
June
We have started a new topic all about the seaside. We have been exploring non-fiction texts and doing lots of mathematical noticing about things we find at the seaside. We have talked about our own visits to the seaside and we have been using shells to make pictures and impressions on clay.
Our first story is the Snail and the Whale. After reading the book, we went to the forest to collect sticks, shells and stones and made our very own snails. We will keep learning more about snails and looking for them!
May
We have continued to learn about growing and caring for plants and flowers
We have read the book Fran’s Flower and we learnt that some flowers grow when seeds blow around and land in a new place. We watched dandelion seeds float about the air when it was a windy day and we wondered where they would end up. In Nursery we had a flower shop and some of us pretended to be florists, making beautiful bouquets and flower arrangements for our customers.
We have planted cosmos seeds and they started to grow really quickly. Hopefully our plants will continue to grow well at home but we will need to keep them watered and put them somewhere with a bit of sun.
We were blessed with some lovely weather, so the children thought of lots of ways to cool down outside and had lots of fun whilst doing so.
April
We have been learning all about growing.
We have been reading Jasper’s Beanstalk, Jack and the beanstalk and Mabel’s magical garden. We have planted beanstalks, potatoes, carrots, spinach and lettuce. We are watering them carefully.
We have been looking closely at the different plants and noticing them grow.
We have been singing songs about growing things and reading lots of other books about plants and growing.
March
We have started our new book Monkey Puzzle and we are thinking about life cycles. We have some real caterpillars that we will watch grow into butterflies.
We have enjoyed making pancakes for pancake day.
We have been looking for signs of spring on the forest and have noticed: caterpillar munched leaves, daffodils, leaf buds and crocuses. We are watching our caterpillars closely and are reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We have been observing our caterpillars closely. They have turned into butterflies and we have realised them.
We have been working on writing our names using our name cards. We have written Easter and Eid cards and have been posting them on our postbox.
We are learning about some celebrations. Howe have read some book about how people celebrate Eid and Easter and we have been looking at pictures on Tapestry of ourselves/our friends celebrating Eid.
February
Our new focus text is ‘Owl babies’. We has read the story and acted out some of the repeated parts of the story and we have started on some lovely creative owl work. We have used paint to print fluffy own baby pictures. We have talked about what owls do and look like and we can describe them.
Our word of the week this week is ‘swoop’. The mummy owl swoops in the story. We have been working on using the word and knowing what is means. We know it begins with s and has one syllable or ‘clap’ and that birds swoop in the sky. We can make a swooping action with our hands to help us remember. Some children have used it brilliantly in sentences already.
January
We have had a great start back to school. We are reading the Gruffalo’s child and the weather must have known. We have lots of snow and ice, just like the story.
We have been singing winter songs, exploring snow and ice, painting on ice and digging snow in the water tray. We have been reading lots of winter stories.
We have been looking at how children celebrated Christmas from their pictures on Tapestry.
We have taken part in The Great British Bird Watch and learnt the names of lots of common garden birds such as; sparrow, robin, blackbird, goldfinch and blue-tit. We have made bird feeders to make sure the birds don’t go hungry. We spotted pigeons and blackbirds flying around and sitting on the chimney stacks.
December
It is a very busy time of year and we are learning lots. We have a Post Office in our nursery and we have been writing letters to send in the post. In Maths, we are learning about shape and we can identify circles and triangles and sort them into groups. We are busy practising new songs to sing in our Christmas show which this year will be a traditional nativity. The children know the story very well and are excited to wear their costumes in a couple of weeks.
November
We read the story ‘After the Storm- a Percy the Park Keeper story. The children loved learning about all the animals that live in the woodland and about where they make their homes. Our hand puppets were very popular and very used over and over again to retell the story. We have also enjoyed reading lots of other Percy the Park Keeper books too.
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We have been learning all about Diwali. We know it is the festival of light that lots of people all around the world celebrate. We have explored Rangoli decorations, painted Diya lamps, made firework pictures and learnt some songs about Diwali.
We have also looked at mehndi patterns that some people decorate their hands with.
October
We have just had a wonderful visit from Ian's Pop-Up Farm. The children were fascinated to see, listen to and touch, a duck, hen, cockerel, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, a tortoise and a sheep. We used lots of familiar and new vocabulary to describe them and talk about their features. The children had a brilliant time and they were so gentle with all of the animals.
It was so much fun. We talked about our favourite animals, their sounds, whether they have fur/feathers/beaks and what they like to eat. We did lots of comparing too! What an amazing morning!
We are really enjoying the story, What the Ladybird Heard. It is a funny rhyming tale about a ladybird who overhears a plot to steal the farmer's cow.
We have been reading ‘Room on the Broom' this week.
We read the story outside in the forest and then we found sticks for wands and broomsticks, made spells and potions and watched and listened to the wind just like the wind in the story. We tried some spells to make some more leaves fall off the trees. It didn’t work so we came inside to decorate some wands to see if that made them more magical.
The children worked so hard to find and put on puddle suits and wellies by themselves and take them off too, as well as hanging them up and putting away wellies when we were finished. Brilliant independence and following instructions.
September
We have had a lovely start to the year. Our existing children have come back as wonderful role models to our new children and the new children are settling brilliantly. We are all getting to know each other. We have been finding out about each other's pets and families ad well as our likes and dislikes.
Our first half term reading is focused on books about farms. Children have sent in photographs of themselves at farms and we have talked about our own experiences.
We have started reading 'The Little Red Hen'. The children can join in with "I will do it myself" and "and so she did". We have been learning lots of Makaton signs for farm animals as well as lots of songs.
We picked, washed and ate carrots from the school garden. The children said they were crunch and some children wanted to eat three!
We have buttered and eaten some bread, just like the red hen did at the end of the story. Our spreading skills are fabulous!
We have started reading The Scarecrow’s Hat.
All of the animals swap things in the story. We had a go at swapping some things ourselves.
We made our own scarecrow and drew around a body. We used lots of spare Nursery clothes to dress our scarecrow and then talked about what we liked.
We have started talking about Autumn. We can sign Autumn in Makaton and we have been to the forest to explore the fallen leaves. We are looking out for signs of Autumn when we are outside.
