Over the half term break, Phase Two of our garden redevelopment has been completed. We now have an amazing sand and water area, giving the children so many opportunities for exploration, motor skill development and problem-solving, and a beautiful pebbled ‘beach’, providing different natural textures and lots of sensory stimulation. The children have already been making the most of the new additions, as you can see!
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An exciting visitor!
This morning we were visited by Sharon, the Community Champion from Morrisons Supermarket in Wymondham. She brought with her an extremely generous donation of toys from their new wooden toy range. We are now the proud owners of a beautiful wooden till and four trays of wooden food, which will really enhance our imaginative role play. Thank you Morrisons!
Nursery w/b 4.11.24
Our story will be: Home is Where the Birds Sing
Our rhyme of the week will be: The Farmer’s in his Den
Our maths work will focus on: naming and using 2d shapes
We will also be: talking about fireworks, writing our own class firework poem and creating some beautiful firework art.
Nursery w/b 21.10.24
Our story will be: Home is where the birds sing
Our rhyme of the week will be: Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Our maths work will focus on: finger numbers – finger rhymes, and using fingers to count and represent numbers
We will also be: talking about what we can do now that we couldn’t when we were babies, talking about and painting our homes, and playing with a sense-stimulating tea tray!
Nursery w/b 14.10.24
Our story will be: I am Nefertiti by Annemarie Anang
Our rhyme of the week will be: Insey Winsey Spider
Our maths work will focus on: Counting objects accuratelyWe will also be: making our own musical instruments, looking at different countries on a globe and world map, making some Insey Winsey Spider pictures, and using peg and band boards to help our fine motor skills.
A Forest School Adventure
We had a fantastic first morning in Forest School today! We managed to dodge the showers, and dressed up in our puddle suits to keep us clean(ish!) before heading into the great outdoors. The children were very attentive when we talked about the things we needed to remember to keep us safe in Forest School, and were eager to explore once we’d established our rules and boundaries. We all had so much fun climbing trees, swinging, balancing, playing in the mud kitchen, building seesaws, and looking in the pond! We’re so lucky to have this amazing space available to us at Browick Road!
Nursery w/b 7.10.24
Our story will be: I am Nefertiti
Our rhyme of the week will be: Hickory Dickory Dock
Our maths work will focus on: Making comparisons according to size – big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallestWe will also be: exploring musical instruments and the sounds they make, practising our scissor skills (snipping playdough, spaghetti, leaves and paper), making autumn crowns in Forest School, and learning to recognise and write our names.
Nursery w/b 30.9.24
Our story will be: The Same but Different Too by Karl Newson
Our rhyme of the week will be: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Our maths work will focus on: Comparing, sorting and opposites
We will also be: practising our pincer grips whilst tearing paper for collages for a special art activity and using pegs, listening out for rhyming words, making a collection of items to explore ‘long’ and ‘short’ and ‘big’ and ‘small’ in Forest School, and baking star biscuits to go with our rhyme of the week.
A great start to the Nursery year!
We have had a lovely start to our year at Nursery, making the most of the last of the summer sunshine! Phase 1 of the development of our garden was carried out over the summer holidays, and we now have lots more space to play and learn in. Our new children have settled in very well, and our old friends have come back ready for lots of new challenges in Rising 4s! We have spent the first couple of weeks exploring our environment, finding out where things are and how things work, and learning Nursery routines. We’re already becoming experts at working together to get things out and put them away, and lining up when we need to move from one place to another. We have also been thinking about ways in which we can make sure we are following our Golden Rule – ‘We take care of each other’.
Nursery w/b 8.7.24
Our story will be: What Happened to You?
Our rhyme of the week will be: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Our maths work will focus on: Solving real-world problems using addition in our ice cream shopWe will also be: Talking about what it means to have a disability, thinking about how to make friends and questions we might like to ask new friends, creating our own 5 sentence stories, and playing at pirates!