Nursery

The children have had a busy fun filled week. On Tuesday they had to work hard when they had to count, measure and talk about the changes they noticed when making pancakes. They even got to enjoy tasting them.

We also had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. The children all dressed up as a job they wanted to do in the future when they were bigger. We had future engineers, palaeontologists, police officers, fire fighters, hairdressers, doctors, nurses, chefs, builders and even astronauts. The children loved explaining what the different jobs were and what the people did.

I’m going to be an engineer like my dad, they build houses – Finn

I’m going to be a palaeontologist, coz they look after dinosaurs and animals – Cody

I gonna be a fireman coz they squirt water and get cats out of trees – Max

The Nursery children have enjoyed lots of valentines activities.

They have colour mixed their own shades of pink with play dough and paint. Made beautiful pictures and cards for the people they love, had dinner in a valentines restaurant, made vases of paper flowers.

They have also been using our valentine heart linked cards to subitise up to 5.

The children have been learning all about Chinese New Year.

It is the year of the snake. They need to take turns, they need to be in order.- Eleanor

The rat winned – Cody

Red and gold lucky colour – Harper

They have red envelopes with money – Jayden

Dragons in the street – Finn.

Dancing -All

Fireworks to frighten bad things away – Ada

They have used their cutting skills to make lanterns and dragon puppets.

They have used noodles to make some prints, and even made a plate of noodles using string.

This half term the children are listening to lots of different Fairy Tales and talking about the different characters.

They have been working hard to make their favourite characters from the stories that they have heard and retelling their favourite stories.

They have made Pinnochio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves this week.

Can you name any of the other Fairy Tales from the display so far?

The 2 year old children have been talking about their pets and their favourite types of pets. They have then made their own paper plate pet. We have cats, dogs, fish and rabbits all in Nursery at the minute.

The 30 hour children have been reading Peter Pan and talking about how unkind Captain Hook was. They all wish that they could fly like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.

The children have been very excited to come back to Nursery, and our new starters have settled in extremely well.

The 2 year old children are going to be learning all about pets this half term and how to look after them.

The older children are learning all about Fairy Tales. We will be reading lots of different stories with the children and talking about the different characters.

We have been beginning to make our role plays this week as they decided we needed a “big fairy tale princess castle” and a “Gingerbread House to eat”.

The children have had a lovely week enjoying a Christmas party and then having a visit from a very special man.

They had to watch carefully out of the window to see if they could see him flying away on his sleigh with his reindeer, but we missed him as he was so fast and we all must have blinked at the same time.

Happy Christmas everyone!

The 2 year old children have been looking at the colour pink this week. They have read lots of Peppa Pig stories and have mixed their own pink paint to make their own pigs.

The 30 hour children have made a 3D Christmas tree. They had to make sure that both of the pieces were the same size for it to work.

The 2 year old children have been on a colour hunt and finding lots of things that are brown. They have made leaf prints and conker rolling pictures.

The 30 hour children have been finding out about hibernation. They have been learning about which animals hibernate and what they do before they go to sleep. They decided it sounded like a good idea to sleep while it was cold, but that they would need somewhere to keep themselves warm and dry. They all decided to make a hut together, even including a fire.