Nursery: Blog items
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 1:16pm
We always ensure that the resources we have in nursery are enganging and stimulate the children's imagination. Using open ended resources allows chidren the time to think about what they would like to do and how they would like to use the reosurces. It is also encourages the chidlren to work together and build positive realtionships. They always come up with super ideas and it's a pleasure to watch their play unfold.
Nursery Prepare for the Reindeers
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 1:08pm
We have been reading the story "The Christmasaurus" by Tom Fletcher. It's all about a dinosaur who lives at the North Pole with Santa. The Christmasaurus really wants to fly so he can pull Santa's sleigh. Santa say's he will try to help him learn to fly and suggets the Christmasaurus eats some magical reindeer food. We made our own reindeer food for Santa's reindeer and the Christmasarus. The chidren had to count 3 spoonfuls of porridge oats and 2 pinches of magical glitter and then give it a gentle shake! They had to concentrate really hard to make sure each spoonful of porridge and each pinch of glitter went in to the bag!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 12:17pm
In Nursery we have started to have Bucket Time to support the development of the childrens communication and language skills. The chidlren watch and listen as an adult explores what is in the bucket and models language and explores ideas. The children really enjoy Bucket Time and are fully engaged to find out what's in the bucket!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 11:26am
Nursery visited outerspace this week! We read the story "The Way Back Home" by Oliver Jeffers about a boy who finds an areoplane and flies all the way to the moon! He runs out of petrol and meets an alien whose spaceship has broken down! We learnt all about the different planets and used balloons to print some planets. Outside we built a rocket using the bricks and went on lots of adventures to space! One day we discovered some aliens in our garden and we talked about how they might of got there. We also used magnetic shapes and building blocks to build our own rockets. We had to think carefully about the shapes we needed to make a rocket. Its been a very busy week!
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 12:05pm
Nursery have taken to the seas this week and become Pirates! We've made treasure maps, counted golden coins, worked together to a build pirate ship and made special pirate brews! The children have loved playing together to make up their own pirate stories and have even been fishing for their tea!
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 11:29am
Nursery had a lovely time at Together Time this week. Lots of our Mummy's and Daddy's came to play and we really enjoyed sharing what we do at Nursery.
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 12:23pm
Nursery celebrated everyone being different for Anti-Bullying Day. We all wore odd socks and talked about how its good to be different and we should always be kind to everyone. We designed our own odd socks and developed our fine motor skills by filling odd socks with rice.
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 4:04pm
Nursery enjoyed making poppies for all the soliders who have helped us. We collaged, painting and coloured poppies and also made poppy biscuits. Tbe children also planted poppies in our Remembrance Garden and took part in the school Remembrance Service.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 8:05pm
Nursery celebrated Firework Night with a big bang! The children explored the different sounds fireworks make and used their bodies to become fireworks! They used their imaginations to create firework patterns on special scratch paper and explored a firework sensory tray. Outside, the children all sat round a bonfire and drank pretend hot chocolate. The children also explored changes by melting chocolate to create some breadstick sparklers - they were delicious!
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 12:44pm
We have been exploring the parachute in nursery. This is a great way to support physical development and build realtionships with each other. We are starting with simple games to learn how to use the parachute and we will slowly intorduce more games.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 11:28am
Nursery have a had a very spooky time this week. We have had lots of halloween activities to support our social and emotional development, our communication and language and physical development. The children have been mixing their own potions, exploring how to get halloween objects out of ice and counting legs on spiders. There have also been some very messy activities that have encouraged the chidlren to talk about what they can see, smell and feel.
Nursery Unicorns, Sharing and other Bits and Bobs
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 11:29am
We always have a wide variety of activities in nursery to meet the needs of all our children. This week to suppport physical developemnt we have been threading beads on to unicorns and exploring their creative side by painting and creating unicorns, We've also been developing relationships through lots iof turn taking opportunites and working collabratively.
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 11:22am
Nursery have had a throughly good time outside this week with lots of exciting and stimulting experiences. All our outdoor experiences are great for supporting social and emotional developemnt as the children learn to share, take turns and interact with their friends. Whilst they are doing this they also develop their communication and langauge skills. This week the children have been making ramps to roill conkers down. They investigated lots of differnent heights for the ramp and where thrilled when they discoverd if the conkers land on the trampoline they will bounce! The children also counted the conkers and explored capacity by putting them in different containers. The conker fun didn't stop there - we had to clean them all up! This was great for developing physical development as the children sweprt them in to a pile. Have a look at the photos to see what else we have been doing.
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:26am
Nursery have been working on their social and emotional development. It can be quiet over whelming when chidlren start nursery with lots of new faces and having to share and take turns with new friends. Sometimes chidlren can experiences some big emotions and it is important to help the chidren to understand that these feelings are ok and help them to manage these feelings. We have been doing lots of sharing and turn taking with adults there to mdoel and support the children.We've had actvities that encourage the childern to work together and we made a friendship chain. The children have done so well and have been trying extra hard to be a good friend.
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 1:26pm
Nursery had a very exciting visit this week - we met four owls! We went to meet our feathered friends in the dance studio and waited patiently for their handler to take them out of their boxes. We met Tike, Casper and Twiglet. and a beautiful owl with bright orange eyes. We were excited to learn that Tike burrows under the ground and Casper comes from Africa. One of the owls had bright orange eyes and these help him to see over long diatnaces so he can catch his prey. We also got to hold Twiglet. Twiglet's feathers look just like the bark of a tree so he can camouflage himself from preditors. Thank you SMJ Falconry for bringing your owls to see us.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:18pm
Every Friday is Fun Friday in Nursery! We try to do an exciting activity each week to celebrate another super week in school. The activities often invlove working as a team and sharing a taking turns which is great for developing the children's social and emotional skills. This week is was baking! We made some delicious star biscuits.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:10pm
Nursery have throughly enjoyed reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". They have learnt the pattern of the story and are great at retelling it using a story map or just by themselves. We added instruments to make the sounds of swishy swashy grass and squelchly sqerchy mud! The chidlren loved going on a mini bear hunt outside and making theiir own story mats.
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:48pm
Sometimes in Nursery things can get a little bit messy! The children have been making shaving foam ice creams - I think they got more ice cream on themselves than in the cones! This activity is great fro developing the children's social skills, communication skills and fine motor skills.
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:34pm
Nursery discovered some dragons frozen in ice this week! They worked together to find ways to set them free. They learnt that making the ice warm would help to melt it so they tried warm water and moving the ice around. Once the ice began to melt the children could wiggle the dragons free.
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:56am
Starrting somewhere new can be a little bit scary so to help the children settle in we have read "Owl Babies" about some baby owls that are worried their mummy won't come back - but of course she does! The story is great for supporintg PSED skills and taking about emotions.
Nursery Won't Let The Rain Stop Them!
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:48am
There is only one thing to do on a very rainy day and that's get outside and enjoy it! Nursery had a great time jumnping a splashing in the rain this week and when the slide got extra slippery from the rain drops the children loved sliding down it at super speed! They then got even wetter and explored the water tray. We added some small pipettes and the children pinched the top to sqeeeze water in and then squeezed them again to let the water out. The children counted how many drops it took to fill containers and how many sqeezes to fill the pipette.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 12:13pm
Nursery are going to be using the dance studio every week to practise their listening skills. They will be doing this by learning some instructional games. So far we have learnt the "Stop and Go" game and the "Bean Game!"! We have learnt two beans this week - jumping bean and jelly bean!
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 11:19am
Nursery had a super week meeting all our new starters and welcoming back our old friends. The children have been busy getting to know each other and learning all the nursery routines. We are all excited for lots of adventures this year.
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 11:51am
Nursery had a great time building with some new bricks this week. There was some super team work going on as they moved the bricks around and tried to construct a wall. They really had to think about the best way to stack the bricks so the wall didn't fall over! Their building skills were very impressive!
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:21pm
We found a very sleepy bumble bee in our nursery garden this week. To help him get some energy back we gave him some sugar water and he was soon off flying again. The children showed a real interest in the bugs so we went on a big bug hunt around the nursery garden. We found grasshoppers, more bees and a little grass beetle. The children were so excited we're going to carry on exploring for bugs next week.
