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Spring 1- Week 5 in Nursery:
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt…
This week, we have continued our learning around the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Bear Hunt. The children created a painting of their own bear and what a brilliant job they did. The children also worked very hard to make their own Bear Hunt story map out of different art materials. 🐻
We visited our school library, the children had a great time choosing a book and we shared lots of stories together! 📚
In maths, we have continued our learning on colours, shapes, numbers and ordering of size!
We have had a very exciting day today, Mr Bailey our IT teacher joined us in Nursery. We did a now-press-play experience where we listened to the Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk story, we followed the different instructions through headphones and acted the stories out. Mr Bailey also had some very exciting traditional tales apps on the iPads. As Mr Bailey was coming into school this morning, he caught Goldilocks, the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs and Jack. He managed to take a video of them. The children were super excited! 🐻 🐷
In Nursery, we are always learning about the importance of hygiene and we have been specifically focusing on the importance of washing hands and brushing teeth. 🪥 🦷 🤚
Home challenge:
A fun challenge!
Can you find different resources around the house/outdoors to go on your own Bear Hunt? 🐻
ON THURSDAY 12TH FEBRUARY, we will be having our own ❤️Nursery Valentine's Disco ❤️ in school during school hours. The children are welcome to come to school in non uniform on this day.
Another fabulous week! ⭐️
Well done Nursery! ✨
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
Spring 1- Week 4 in Nursery:
What a very busy and exciting week we have had in Nursery!
Our new story is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' our role play area has turned into the bears cave.
We collected different resources to make our very own bear hunt. The children collected grass, water, mud, leaves/ sticks and cotton wool for snow. We put the trays in the hall and the children had such a fantastic time exploring. Mila said "this is the best day ever!" 🐻
We then made our own sensory Bear Hunt bottles and our own binoculars.
As part of our maths learning, we went on a colour hunt in our nursery yard. The children enjoyed using the clipboards to tick off the colours when they found them. When outdoors, the children have been wearing their waterproofs and wellies. We have been working on our independence skills at school to put our waterproofs, wellies, coats and shoes on. It would be great if you could do this with your child at home to build their independence skills. We have also been doing lots of colour matching and sorting in the classroom and in our outdoor garden. We have also been focusing on numbers 1, 2, 3.
With our older Nursery children, we have been working on rhyming. The children had to find two picture cards that rhyme e.g. dog and log and what a fantastic job they did! 🐶 🪵
We have been working on our gross motor skills outdoors, the children thoroughly enjoyed riding around the yard on balance bikes. We have also been using the spades to dig. Indoors, we have been working on our fine motor skills!
Home challenge:
Can you go on a colour scavenger hunt with your child?
It has been great to see more and more Tapestry posts from home. The children get very excited to see themselves on the big screen and talk about what they have been doing.
On THURSDAY 12th FEBRUARY, we will be having our own ❤️ Nursery Valentine's Disco ❤️ in school (during school hours). The children are welcome to come to school in non uniform on this day.
Another wonderful week!
Well done Nursery superstars! 🌟
As always, thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
Spring 1- Week 3 in Nursery:
WOW! What a week we have had in Nursery! A very exciting week indeed! To begin our week, we always share our Tapestry news. The children thoroughly enjoy looking at the pictures of themselves and their friends on the big screen, talking about what they have been up to at home!
We are continuing our learning on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have been retelling and sequencing the story. The children had great sensory play fun with shaving foam, whisks, spoons and bowls! We pretended the shaving foam was porridge.
On Wednesday, when we arrived at school, we could not believe it! All of the chairs in Nursery were knocked over, we were confused at what had happened. Mrs Cook checked the cameras and Goldilocks had been in our classroom! The excitement on the children’s faces was brilliant! We created wanted posters and put them around the classroom to see if anyone could find her. On Wednesday after school, Mrs Cook found Goldilocks in our nursery yard, she was feeling sad as she was lost. Goldilocks left us all some porridge and fruit and Mrs Cook showed her the way home!
Yesterday, we made our very own porridge. We added the porridge oats and milk and stirred them together, after the porridge was cooked we used the safe knives and cutters to cut our own fruit. The children were fantastic at cutting the strawberries, bananas and blueberries. The children then ate their porridge. Mmmmm, just right!
In maths, we have continued our learning on numbers to 3, shapes and this week a big focus has been around repeating patterns. We have also been making big, medium and small towers out of different objects, including duplo!
We have also been focusing on rhyming, looking at pictures and matching them if they rhyme.
As you can see by the pictures, the children have been enjoying exploring in the Nursery. Fantastic teamwork tigers! 🐯
Home Challenge:
Can you work on hand washing at home with your child. We are having a big focus in Nursery on washing hands as a lot of children keep forgetting to wash their hands after being to the toilet.
Can you work on making big, medium and small towers out of different objects with your child, focusing on the language big, medium and small.
Another wonderful week!
Well done Nursery Superstars! ⭐
As always, thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
Spring 1- Week 2 in Nursery:
As you can see by the pictures, Nursery have had a very busy and fun filled week!
The children have shown amazing teamwork tiger skills, working together indoors and outdoors. The children have shown brilliant gross motor skills outdoors, especially riding on the trikes.
We have continued our learning on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have shown great imagination skills in our Bears Cottage. We have been sorting the bears into big, medium and small bowls with the tweezers, picking the bears out of the sand.
We have also been focusing on ‘why’ questions:
Why is daddy bear angry?
Why is baby bear sad?
To make baby bear happy again, we worked in teams to make baby bear a new chair. The children talked about what they were going to do and what resources they were going to use. The children were so excited to try baby bear on the chair.
We also made houses for the bears out of magnatiles!
An exciting activity that the children enjoyed was going on a shape hunt around school!
Home challenge:
Can your child retell parts of the Goldilocks story to you?
Can your child spot any shapes around the house? Or outdoors?
On a Monday, we enjoy sharing Tapestry observations from home whether it be the home challenge or weekend news. The children love to see themselves on the big screen!
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook
Spring 1- Week 1 in Nursery:
I hope you have all had a wonderful festive period. The children have been so excited to tell me what they have been doing over the holidays.
We have had a fantastic first week back. The children have settled back very well and our new nursery children have been amazing. I am super proud! ⭐
The children have enjoyed exploring in the Nursery environment. As you can see by the pictures, we have had lots of fun!
Our topic for this half term is Once Upon a Bear. Our story is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have thoroughly enjoyed exploring in the Bears cottage.
The children were superstars in PE today. They showed fantastic listening skills and followed the different instructions! ⭐
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Cook