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: The Way Back Home
Our rhyme of the week will be: The Farmer’s in his Den
Our maths work will focus on: Adding and subtracting within 3
We will also be: Practising sentence building, creating our own funny aliens and looking for signs of spring in Forest School.
Our World Book Day celebrations have lasted all week at Nursery! We love stories, and read lots of them every day, but we wanted to make this week extra special. Every day we have been able to explore play provocations based on some of our all-time favourites, including Owl Babies, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and we’ve all been creating our own stories based on a ‘Five sentence story’ structure, too. Today, on World Book Day, lots of us came to Nursery dressed as our favourite story characters – I’m sure you’ll agree that everyone looked amazing!
As World Book Day is on Thursday, we will be looking at lots of stories! Instead of a rhyme of the week, we will be singing number rhymes.
Our number work will focus on: ‘Taking away’ in number rhymes
We will also be: celebrating Pancake Day on Tuesday by making, eating and racing with pancakes, sharing lots of stories and taking part in story-based activities.
Our story will be: The Suitcase
Our rhyme of the week will be: Twinkle, Twinkle
Our maths work will focus on: Repeating patterns – recognising and copying.We will also be: thinking about feelings, naming them, and deciding whether they are comfortable or uncomfortable, making and ‘packing’ paper suitcases, and making sandwiches for a special tea party.
Our story will be: The Queen’s Hat
Our rhyme of the week will be: Humpty Dumpty
Our number work will focus on: Exploring, recognising and writing number two.
We will also be: Inventing our own stories based on ‘The Queen’s Hat’, painting the London landmarks we’ve been learning about, exploring rhyming words and having fun with ‘weather-based’ music!
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!