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: All through the night
Our rhyme of the week will be: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
Our maths work will focus on: The number one. What it means, and recognising and representing it.
We will also be: thinking about different jobs, talking about what we might want to be when we grow up, making junk models of vehicles and exploring light and shadow.
Our story will be: The Nativity Story
Our rhyme of the week will be: Our Christmas performance songs
Our maths work will focus on: Accurate counting and subitising (recognising small amounts without counting)We will also be: printing Christmas cards using bubble wrap, learning about Christian beliefs about Christmas, painting some Nativity pictures and following instructions to complete a Santa sack race in the garden!
It was lovely to be joined by so many parents at our annual Story Morning this week. We are passionate about reading at Nursery, and base our learning around stories whenever we can, and we really enjoyed having the chance to share the experience with our Nursery families. After reading one of our favourites, ‘You Choose’, together, we took our parents to explore some of the different ‘You Choose’-related activities on offer, creating some fabulous hats, choosing our dream pets, and building our ideal homes. Lots of us spent time looking at the stories from the Nursery ‘story spine’ together, too. We were lucky enough to be joined again by Sheila, from Wymondham Library, who was able to help families with joining the library and making the most of all it has to offer.
Our story will be: The Three Little Pigs
Our rhyme of the week will be: Little Bo Peep
Our maths work will focus on: accurate counting – counting spaces in board games
We will also be: starting our letters to Father Christmas, building some strong houses like the cleverest little pig, printing and collaging, creating our own stories, and learning to play ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’
Our story will be: The Three Little Pigs
Our rhyme of the week will be: Row, row, row your boat
Our maths work will focus on: naming and using 2d shapes – focusing on triangles
We will also be: thinking about Remembrance Day, creating some artwork based on Kandinsky’s ‘Triangles’, exploring bricks, sticks and straw, building our own balsa wood triangles, and practising the songs for our Christmas performance. Don’t forget our story morning on Tuesday, too!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.