Please see below for our knowledge organisers for each half-term in Nursery and the long-term overview of our curriculum.
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.
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.
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’.
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!
We had a fabulous Sports Day with our Reception friends today! The children had a brilliant time taking part in running, egg and spoon, sack and obstacle races, all with big smiles on their faces. Everyone did a great job of cheering on their teams, and it was lovely to welcome so many parents, grandparents and friends to cheer along with us in the sunshine. A big thank you to the Friends who sold well-deserved ice pops to finish off a lovely morning.
Our story will be: Splash!
Our rhyme of the week will be: Incey Wincey Spider
Our maths work will focus on: Weight – we will be using balance scales to make comparisons between objects, and using the vocabulary of ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’.We will also be: investigating materials to find out which are waterproof, creating some bubble art, exploring reflections and bubbles, continuing our work on initial sounds and enjoying Sports Day on Monday.
Last week, we celebrated Arts Week with the rest of the school, taking part in lots of arty activities alongside our Reception Class friends. The theme for this year’s Arts Week was ‘Connections’, so we looked at the ways in which we are connected to our families, our friends, and our environment, as well as making physical connections between materials. We made handprints, practised our sewing skills, used clay, snipped up photos of ourselves to create new funny faces, painted paper dolls as ourselves, made transient art from natural materials, wove dream catchers, and even painted the pathway connecting our classes using powder paints! All of the Nursery children spent time enjoying the Reception classroom and garden, and the Reception children visited Nursery in their house groups – it was lovely working on our arty projects together! We finished the week with an exhibition in our outdoor classroom so that all of the parents could enjoy our creations.
Our story will be: Splash!
Our rhyme of the week will be: Hickory Dickory Dock
Our number work will focus on: Counting actions and scoring games
We will also be: Practising for our Sports Day, making rosettes and trophies, making our own book about sports, trying new sporty skills and continuing our work on rhyme.
Our story will be: The Dot
Our rhyme of the week will be: Twinkle Twinkle
Our maths work will focus on: naming and describing shapes common 2d and 3d shapes
We will also be: celebrating Arts Week along with the rest of the school! We will be taking part in many activities with the theme of ‘Connections’ – please come and see all our creations on Friday at 2:30pm!
We had some special visitors last week, who gave us the opportunity to come face to face with some prehistoric minibeasts! Jill and Jennifer, authors of the ‘Extraordinary Extinct’ series of books, brought in some of their books to share with us, and allowed us to handle some of their real fossils, which was an amazing experience. We learned about some fabulous fossil finds in our local area, and explored ammonites, belemnites, trilobites and echinoids. We even had a go at making our own belemnites to take home, using cones of paper. Jill and Jennifer very kindly gave us some of their books to keep at Nursery, too – thank you so much! Look out for the ‘Prehistoric Quest’ around Wymondham during the summer holidays.
